Maritime Security Threats in Southeast Asia: A Collective Approach (Bernard Miranda, RSIS)

Being a small island-nation with busy and congested waterways, Singapore faces significant maritime security challenges, in particular maritime terrorism which is a common threat also faced by neighbouring states. Hence information sharing, international and inter-agency collaboration constitute the way ahead for a collective solution against such challenges.

http://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/co16258-maritime-security-threats-in-southeast-asia-a-collective-approach/#.WARTsOWLTIU

South and Southeast Asia—The Islamic State’s New Front? (Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR)

Over the past year, as the Islamic State (ISIS) has suffered multiple losses in Syria and Iraq, the group has clearly been looking to widen its impact, taking the fight to countries outside of the Middle East. Increasingly, ISIS leaders have used social media to call on Islamic radicals to stage attacks in countries in the West like France and the United States, where the Orlando gunman, the San Bernardino gunmen, and the Nice attacker, among others, have publicly identified themselves with ISIS. In most of these cases, the attackers were lone wolves (or duos) who had not received any training or funding from ISIS, and often had not even traveled to Islamic State-controlled territory to train and fight. (To be sure, some recent attackers in Western nations had traveled to ISIS-controlled territory and fought with the group.)

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/10/04/south-and-southeast-asia-the-islamic-states-new-front/

Democratic Regression in Southeast Asia and the Islamic State (Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR)

Southeast Asia’s decade of democratic regression, which I examined in the previous blog post, reflects a worrying global retrenchment. Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World report, which measures the spread or retrenchment of freedom globally, has reported ten straight years of declining global political freedom. In Freedom House’s 2016 edition of Freedom in the World, more than seventy countries registered declines in political freedom as compared to the prior year.

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/02/17/democratic-regression-in-southeast-asia-and-the-islamic-state/

What the Washington Post gets wrong about Southeast Asia (Aaron Connelly, Lowy Institute)

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2016/02/08/What-the-Washington-Post-gets-wrong-about-Southeast-Asia.aspx

Time to Protect Southeast Asia's Refugees (The Diplomat)

http://thediplomat.com/2015/09/time-to-protect-southeast-asias-refugees/

Monarchy and modern politics in Southeast Asia (Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2015/09/03-monarchy-modern-politics-southeast-asia-vatikiotis

(Istituto fondamentale - Southeast Asia) Towards A Real Solution to Southeast Asia's Refugee Crisis (Antje Missbach, The Diplomat)

http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/towards-a-real-solution-to-southeast-asias-refugee-crisis/

(Istituto fondamentale - Southeast Asia) Growing Maritime Security Concerns in Southeast Asia: A Greater Need for Further Regional Cooperation (The National Interest)

http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/growing-maritime-security-concerns-southeast-asia-greater-13145

(Istituto fondamentale - Southeast Asia) Southeast Asia's moment of shame (Richard Javad Heydarian, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/06/southeast-asia-moment-shame-rohingya-myanmar-150603052854516.html

(Istituto fondamentale - Southeast Asia) Can Southeast Asia Tackle its Human Trafficking Problem? (Prashanth Parameswaran, The Diplomat)

http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/can-southeast-asia-tackle-its-human-trafficking-problem/