Southeast Asia

The ‘State of Southeast Asia’ 2025 survey indicates that the escalating US–China rivalry provides an opportunity for other major powers to positively shape the region’s geopolitical landscape.

• Temjenmeren Ao
• IDSA Comments

Southeast Asia remains a key partner for the US given that both sides have multiple shared interests.

• Temjenmeren Ao
• Issue Brief

The US’ immediate response to 9/11 attacks marked the acme of its global hegemonic might, but the 7/10 attacks have fully exposed its receding geopolitical and technological ascendance.

• Adil Rasheed
• December 09, 2024
• IDSA Comments

New mini-laterals are taking shape to address the considerable challenges facing the ASEAN-centered regional security architecture.

• Temjenmeren Ao
• 19 April 2024
• Issue Brief

Even as Vietnam has Southeast Asia's largest installed solar and wind power capacity, coal will continue to be the country’s primary source of energy till 2030.

• Shubham Rai
• March 21, 2023
• IDSA Comments

The Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) Initiative aims to enhance regional maritime security via technology and training support.

• Shruti Pandalai , Abhay Kumar Singh
• June 24, 2022
• IDSA Comments

Ensuring maritime security and freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and the wider Indo-Pacific region is key security imperative and one of the key objectives of India’s engagement with the US and other partners.

• Anurag Bisen
• April 08, 2022
• Backgrounder

Given Myanmar’s geostrategic significance and the continuing insurgency threat, disturbances in Myanmar pose a direct and serious policy challenge to India. A calculated realistic approach weighing the evolving ground situation alone will deliver the objectives of India’s foreign policy.

• Udai Bhanu Singh
• January 24, 2022
• IDSA Comments

Showing readiness to sign the SEANWFZ treaty seems to be a low-cost, high-return proposition for Beijing. It could be a calculated symbolic gesture having no bearing on the region’s precarious security situation.

• Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak
• December 09, 2021
• IDSA Comments

India’s Act East policy is delivering results its approach towards Southeast Asia. India’s improving stature in the region along with other key geopolitical players has heralded its arrival as a major regional power in the power matrix. In fact, India is in a unique position in the region in terms of defence and military engagement and must explore this potential further. India satisfies all the attributes needed for robust interaction in the military sphere.

• Vignesh Ram
• July-September 2018
• Journal of Defence Studies