Event Highlights

In this seminar, Dr Malcolm Cook and Dr Ian Storey shared their insights on the Philippines’ and Thailand’s evolving defence relations with the United States and China. Dr Storey and Dr Cook drew from their recently published ISEAS Perspectives,Thailand’s Military Relations with China, and The Philippines’ Alliance respectively. 

Dr Hilmar Farid talks about the challenges and the role of central as well as local government in shaping cultural policy in Indonesia.

In this seminar, Dr Ahmad Farouk talks about how the deteriorating racial and religious conditions in Malaysia at the moment is correlated to the economic disparity between the races.

This seminar by Prof Tey Nai Peng inaugurates a new seminar series under the Malaysia Studies Programme entitled “Urbanization, Consumption and Culture”, and presents a systematic overview of Malaysia’s main demographic shifts since the 1960s and their effects on Malaysia’s social, economic and political circumstances.

In this seminar, Mr. Bilahari Kausikan shares his perspective on why this new concept developed, how ASEAN ought to view the Indo-Pacific, and how ASEAN should position itself in this nascent strategic concept.

In this seminar, Dr Kai Ostwald presented on the voting patterns in Malaysia’s 2018 General Election and their implications for the country’s democratization process and possibilities for reforms.

This conference builds on conferences held in 2017 and 2018 on Johor’s economic transformation. It will focus on the inter-related themes of people, land use and management, and the environment.

In this seminar, Dr Nguyen Vu Tung talks about Vietnam’s foreign policies and the future trends that the next Communist Party Congress is expected to adopt.