Category: Southeast Asia
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Pop Culture is the New Political Language: Gen Z Resistance in Southeast Asia
From Thailand to Indonesia to Timor-Leste, a new wave of Gen Z resistance is spreading…
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Steel or Fish? Wealth, Power, and Environmental Accountability under Authoritarian Rule in Vietnam’s Formosa Steel Plant Disaster
Keywords: Vietnam; environmental justice; authoritarianism; state–business collusion; Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Abstract In 2016, toxic…
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Who Holds Development Expertise and Who Development Serves: Examining Clark Air Base through Local Memory
Introduction Located in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base have historically…
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Vietnam Policy Proposal on Enhanced Non-Aligned Hedging in the South China Sea
Abstract Vietnam faces growing pressure in the South China Sea as China expands its presence…
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Rethinking Singaporean Interfaith Management: An Interview-Based Approach to Uncovering Singapore’s Accommodative Secularism
Keywords: Singapore; interfaith relations; secularism; Talal Asad; José Casanova; religious governance Abstract Interreligious tensions are…
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ASEAN’s Climate Ambition Problem and The Bold Action Needed Now
The ASEAN region currently faces a multitude of climate related challenges such as rising sea…
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Beyond the Bechdel Test: The Development of Girls Love in Thailand
From the 2010s to the early 2020s, boys’ love media (BL) dominated the Southeast Asian…
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Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement
Abstract I investigate Hong Kong’s localist movement, particularly its evolution from a cultural issue to…
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Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
Since 2023, the South China Sea, a 3.5 million km² body of water south of…
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Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos
Abstract This paper examines how state-led development policies in Laos perpetuate ethnic exclusion and structural…
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