After Hasina’s departure and ahead of a February 2026 vote, Bangladesh’s Islamist parties test whether convenience can trump ...

Abrar Hossain is a Research Assistant at the Dacca Institute of Research and Analytics (DAIRA). He studies at the University of Dhaka where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in World Religions and ...

Rising discontent among Indonesia’s precariat underscores the need for long-term economic solutions — not short-term populist ...

As AI investment floods into Southeast Asia, governments should be neither AI optimists nor pessimists, but pragmatists.

Kade Denton is a researcher at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research within the Crawford School of Public Policy. He is also the Research Program Manager at the Australian Farm Institute, an ...

The 2025 APEC Summit offers South Korea a pivotal stage to translate its ‘bridge’ diplomacy into action, mediating between ...

ASEAN, one of the world's most dynamic and integrated regions, has both the political convening power and the economic ...

ASEAN's commitment to multilateral solutions and an open rules-based order shows how the world should respond to the tariff ...

Nguyen Truong Giang is a Vietnamese researcher based in Tokyo, Japan, and a former ADB–Japan Scholarship Program scholar. He holds an MSc in International Relations from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific ...

From the South China Sea to the Taiwan Strait, Asia’s security order is in flux. Japan’s dramatic and unprecedented shift in ...

Nalinie Sharma is a PhD Research Scholar in International Relations at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India and has worked as a Risk Analyst with the Indo-Pacific Studies Center, Australia. She ...

Structural asymmetries and strategic cleavages challenge BRICS’ cohesion and credibility. Its multipolar aspirations remain, ...