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Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) evanlaksmana.com
“Thailand’s efforts to crack down on Cambodian scammers therefore came at a moment when bilateral relations were already fraught, and heightened the stakes of the mounting security stand-off at the border.”
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My colleague @morganmichaels.bsky.social and I sketched how lingering 🇹🇭🇰🇭 security dilemma, ASEAN’s chronic conflict management, and the growing borderland scam industry contributed to the atmosphere of conflict 👇🏻
www.iiss.org/online-analy...
My colleague @morganmichaels.bsky.social and I sketched how lingering 🇹🇭🇰🇭 security dilemma, ASEAN’s chronic conflict management, and the growing borderland scam industry contributed to the atmosphere of conflict 👇🏻
www.iiss.org/online-analy...
🚨research internship opening!
Come join us to work on cutting-edge Southeast Asian security research for 3 mths at our IISS Asia office in Singapore! 👇
Deadline: 17 Aug
www.iiss.org/careers/jobs...
🚨research internship opening!
Come join us to work on cutting-edge Southeast Asian security research for 3 mths at our IISS Asia office in Singapore! 👇
Deadline: 17 Aug
www.iiss.org/careers/jobs...
2003 US-UK invasion of Iraq was an absolute tragedy. It also gave us a test to evaluate analysis and advocacy.
So if you are an official who sold that war, a public intellectual who advocated it, a senior commander who assured us victory is around the corner, please consider sitting this one out.
“Defence-industrial partnerships need to balance military modernisation needs, defence-partnership and alliance management as well as domestic technological capacity and policy infrastructure.”
Can they move across tiers?
‼️open access: www.iiss.org/publications...
“Defence-industrial partnerships need to balance military modernisation needs, defence-partnership and alliance management as well as domestic technological capacity and policy infrastructure.”
Can they move across tiers?
‼️open access: www.iiss.org/publications...
Tomorrow we are launching the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment (APRSA) 2025!
This Dossier examines the deeper drivers, emerging trends and future trajectories of the key security challenges and policies shaping the Asia-Pacific👇
🔗 www.iiss.org/publications...
With the ASEAN Summit starting today and the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue this weekend, my colleague Morgan Michaels and I discuss why and how the grouping needs a regional crisis-response architecture 👇🏻
Link: www.iiss.org/online-analy...
With the ASEAN Summit starting today and the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue this weekend, my colleague Morgan Michaels and I discuss why and how the grouping needs a regional crisis-response architecture 👇🏻
Link: www.iiss.org/online-analy...
"The joint statement was a diplomatic victory for China. It gave away practically nothing while bilaterally strengthening its overall strategic position in the South China Sea and beyond."
Why and how 🇮🇩 is sleepwalking into strategic alignment with 🇨🇳👇
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"The joint statement was a diplomatic victory for China. It gave away practically nothing while bilaterally strengthening its overall strategic position in the South China Sea and beyond."
Why and how 🇮🇩 is sleepwalking into strategic alignment with 🇨🇳👇
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 job opening
Working on defence industry and economy? Interested to work on the Shangri-La Dialogue, the premier defence summit in the region?
Come join our IISS Asia team in Singapore! 👇🏻
‼️ Deadline: 14 Feb 25
🚨 job opening
Working on defence industry and economy? Interested to work on the Shangri-La Dialogue, the premier defence summit in the region?
Come join our IISS Asia team in Singapore! 👇🏻
‼️ Deadline: 14 Feb 25
🇮🇩 defence minister recently concluded a trip to 🇨🇳 and promised to expand defence engagements 👇🏻
Here’s the broader context why and how bilateral defence ties have been underwhelming thus far👉🏻 www.iiss.org/online-analy...
“… President Prabowo Subianto had ordered the Defense Ministry to process the appointment of active military officers to civilian posts… 200 civilian posts at ministries, state agencies and state-owned companies are open to military personnel.”
www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2024...
“The Prabowo administration is, of course, entitled to lower ASEAN’s priority in our foreign policy, but our ASEAN neighbors, too, are within their rights to turn away from us in response.”
www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2024...
📚🧵 A highlight of our IISS #JapanMemo podcasts is the book recommendations for those wanting to understand #Japan more from our wonderful guests. As a year-end treat the IISS Japan Chair team and I have made this list of reading recs from our 2024 shows--archive here: www.iiss.org/podcasts/jap...
Last few days to apply! 👇🏻
Australia has invested significant diplomatic capital to deepen its relationship with Southeast Asia. But ineffective strategic messaging risks undermining these connections. asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/ar...
🚨 fellowship opening🚨
Come join us next year at the Shangri-La Dialogue and work on a Southeast Asian security research project for three months at the IISS-Asia office👇🏻
*deadline 13 Dec 2024
www.iiss.org/careers/jobs...