ASEAN Leadership in Flux
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 10 Scott D. McDonald Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, 1969 Introduction The end of the Cold War’s bipolar [...]
Dr. Lumpy Lumbaca Reviews “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre” by Dr. Rohan Gunaratna
March 2024 – Dr. Lumpy Lumbaca provides an insightful review of “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community” by counterterrorism expert Dr. Rohan Gunaratna. The book, published by Penguin Books, delves into the 2019 Easter Sunday [...]
New Insight on Maritime Domain Awareness Initiatives in ASEAN Region
Hoang Do, Research Official at the East Sea Institute, Vietnam, and CSC 22-1 DKI APCSS alumnus, has released a Security Nexus perspective paper titled "Popular MDA Initiatives and Implications for ASEAN." This paper examines the impact of increasing Maritime [...]
Structuring ASEAN military involvement in disaster management and the ASEAN Militaries Ready Group
“Structuring ASEAN military involvement in disaster management and the ASEAN Militaries Ready Group” is a new OpEd coauthored by DKI APCSS professors Dr. Deon Canyon and Dr. Elizabeth Kunce for Security Nexus. Also contributing to the article is Dr. [...]
Positioning ASEAN in Cyberspace
DKI APCSS Associate Professor Elina Noor recently published an article titled “Positioning ASEAN in Cyberspace” in Asia Policy, The National Bureau of Asian Research's a peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific. In this paper, Noor [...]
COVID-19 and the ASEAN Chair Agenda: Vietnam’s Lost Year? and Brunei’s, Too?
“COVID-19 and the ASEAN Chair Agenda: Vietnam's Lost Year? and Brunei's, Too?” is a new paper authored by Dr. Alfred Oehlers for Security Nexus. In this paper, Oehlers states that “There is mounting concern the COVID-19 pandemic may negatively affect [...]
Why the US and its allies should keep ASEAN at the centre
New article by DKI APCSS Research Fellow Anu Anwar for the Lowy Institute on "Why the US and its allies should keep ASEAN at the centre (link is external)." In his article Anwar states: "For the US and its [...]
DKI APCSS supports ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise
The current co-chairs of the ASEAN Defence Ministers Plus Expert Working Group on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (ADMM Plus EWG HADR) are Malaysia and United States. As part of this co-chair role, both countries worked together to facilitate [...]
Maritime Shared Awareness focus of DKI APCSS workshop held in Bangkok
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense General James Mattis offered increased US-ASEAN cooperation to build maritime domain awareness to address comment threats to regional security at the East Asia Summit and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [...]
