USAHEC: Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore

Indonesia and the United States: 20 Years Post-Reformasi

Australia and Indonesia: Energy, Resources, and Security at the Fulcrum of the Indo-Pacific

Indonesia

“The Deradicalisation Programme for Indonesian Deportees: A Vacuum in Coordination"
Anindya, Chaula Rininta.
Journal for Deradicalization, no. 18 (Spring 2019): 217-243.
“Indonesia in 2018: The Calm before the Election Storm”
Sambhi, Natalie.
Southeast Asian Affairs (2019): 123-143.
"Indonesia Plans To Move Its Capital Out Of Jakarta, A City That's Sinking"
Kennedy, Merrit.
NPR (April 29, 2019).
“Indonesia’s Security Forces”
Strategic Comment 25, no. 7 (September 2019): i-iii.
“Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and As-Sham] Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia”
Schulze, Kirsten E., and Joseph Chinyong Liow.
Asian Security 15, no. 2 (2019): 122-139.
“The Need to Reform Indonesia’s Maritime Strategy: A Review”
Suseto, Buddy, Zarina Othman, and Farizal Mohd Razalli.
Indonesian Journal of Geography 50, no. 2 (Dec 2018): 145-153.
“Rising Economic Nationalism in Indonesia”
Patunru, Arianto A.
Journal of Southeast Asian Economies 35, no. 3 (December 2018): 335-347.
“U.S.-Australia-Indonesia Trilateral Security? Conditions for Cooperation”
Kelton, Maryanne, and David Willis.
Australian Journal of International Affairs 73, no. 3 (June 2019): 289-311.

Malaysia’s Electoral Surprise, One Year On: Democratic Momentum or Mahathir Redux?

Malaysia

“Beyond Sovereignty: Non-Western International Relations in Malaysia's Foreign Relations”
Milner, Anthony, and Siti Munirah Kasim.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 40, no. 3 (December 2018): 371-396.
”China's Cultural Diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak's Premiership”
Hrubý, Jakub, and Petrů, Tomáš.
“Malaysia: An Unusual Monarchy”
Gee, John.
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 38, no. 2 (March-April 2019): 54-55.
“Malaysia: Perception of Contemporary China and its Economic, Political and Societal Determinants”
Yeoh, Emile Kok-Kheng.
Pacific Review 32, no. 3 (May 2018): 395-418.
“The Sound of Silence: Nuancing Religiopolitical Legitimacy and Conceptualizing the Appeal of ISIS in Malaysia”
Liow, Joseph Chinyong, Aida Arosoaie.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 41, no. 1 (April 2019): 86-113.
“United States Democracy Assistance in Malaysia: The Nature and Impact of Concurrent Strategy”
Ismail, Muhamad Takiyuddin, and Abdul Muein Abadi.
Pacific Review 23, no. 4 (July 2019): 572-602.

Institute of South Asian Studies

Institute of South Asian Studies
A prominent think tank in Singapore.
ISAS Conferences

Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN] and Southeast Asia

“The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace”
Placzek, Jim.
Southeast Asian Studies 7, no. 3 (December 2018): 499-502.
“ASEAN's Tough Balancing Act”
Tang, Siew-Mun.
Asia Policy 13, no. 4 (October 2018): 48-52.
“Assessing ASEAN'S Relevance: Have the Right Questions Been Asked?”
Cheok, Cheong Kee, and Yong Chen Chen.
Journal of Southeast Asian Economies 36, no. 1 (April 2019): 11-24.
“China's Dual Strategy of Coercion and Inducement towards ASEAN”
Le Thu, Huong.
Pacific Review 32, no. 1 (January 2018): 20-36.
“Chinese Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: A New Pattern of Economic Power within ASEAN?”
Wrobel, Ralph Michael.
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Asienkunde. Asiatische Studien 73, no. 1 (2019): 149-191.
“Closing the Capability Gap: ASEAN Military Modernization during the Dawn of Autonomous Weapon Systems”
Wyatt, Austin, and Jai Galliott.
Asian Security (2018) 1-20.
“Co-chairing Asia-Pacific Defence Diplomacy: The Case ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus”
Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol, and Nantasit Klaisringoen.
Australian Journal of International Affairs 73, no. 1 (February 2019): 64-81.
“Determinants of Trade Flows and Trade Structure between Korea and ASEAN”
Truong, Hoan Quang, Chung Van Dong, and Hoang Huy Nguyen.
East Asian Economic Review 23, no. 1 (March 2019): 55-88.
“The Disturbance and Endurance of Norms in ASEAN: Peaceful but Stressful”
Loh, Dylan M. H.
Australian Journal of International Affairs 72, no. 5 (October 2018): 385-402.

East of India, South of China: Sino-Indian encounters in Southeast Asia by Amitav Acharya
Call Number: Root Hall DS450.C6 A34 2017
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017)

“From Commitment to Compliance: ASEAN's Human Rights Regression?”
Collins, Alan.
Pacific Review 32, no. 3 (2019): 365-394.

High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia by Will Doig
Call Number: Root Hall DS525.9.C5 D65 2018
(New York, NY: Columbia Global Reports, 2018)

“Japan's ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Strategy: Tokyo's Tactical Hedging and the Implications for ASEAN”
Koga, Kei.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 41, no. 2 (August 2019): 286-313.

Khaki Capital: The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia by Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat (Eds)
Call Number: Root Hall HC441 .K43 2017
(Copenhagen, Denmark: NIAS Press, 2017)

“Looking West, Acting East: India's Indo-Pacific Strategy"
Mukherjee, Rohan.
Southeast Asian Affairs (2019): 43-51.
The State of Southeast Asia: 2021
Seah, S. et al. (Singapore: ASEAN Studies Centre ISEAS [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies] -Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021).
“‘The State of Southeast Asia: 2021 Survey Report’ presents the findings of a region-wide online survey conducted among the policy, research, business, civil society, and media communities. For the first time, three different language options were offered: English, Bahasa Indonesia and Vietnamese. A total of 1,032 respondents from ten ASEAN member states participated in the online survey.”

Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN by Ronald Holzhacker
Call Number: Root Hall HC441 .S87 2019
(Boston, MA: Brill, 2019)

“Understanding China's Proposal for an ASEAN-China Community of Common Destiny and ASEAN's Ambivalent Response"
Ha, Hoang Thi.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 41, no. 2 (August 2019): 223-254.
“Unpacking ASEAN Neutrality: The Quest for Autonomy and Impartiality in Southeast Asia”
Emmers, Ralf.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 40, no. 3 (December 2018): 349-370.
W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of Norms and the ASEAN Way”
International Relations 33, no. 3 (2019): 413-432.

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Seeking Opportunities Amidst Disruption – A View From Singapore with Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan

Philippines

“Implementing the Philippine Defense Reform Program in Partnership with U.S. Department of Defense Support of Philippine Defense Institutions”
David, Severino Vicente T., and Aaron C. Taliaferro.
Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs 2, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 17-41.

U.S. Policy Considerations for Improving Relations with the Philippines by John Hall
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2017)
Strategy Research Project.

“The Vigilante President: How Duterte’s Brutal Populism Conquered the Philippines”
Coronel, Sheila S.
Foreign Affairs 98, no. 5 (September-October 2019): 36-43.

Singapore

“China's ‘Belt and Road’ in Southeast Asia: Constructing the Strategic Narrative in Singapore”
Ba, Alice D.
Asian Perspective 43, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 249-272.
“The Determinants of Singapore's Outward Foreign Direct Investment to China and Hong Kong”
Leong, Shi Ting, and Chew Ging Lee.
Journal of Developing Areas 53, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 95-108.
“Relations between Singapore and the People’s Republic of China in the Light of Donald Trump’s New Southeast Asia Policy”
Chatys, Mateusz.
International Studies 23, no. 1 (January 2019): 133-148.
“Singapore as Aspiration: Making Further Use of the City- State to Engage North Korea”
Abrahamian, Andray.
North Korean Review 14, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 87-100.

“The ‘Singapore model’ and China's Neo-Authoritarian Dream.” 6 articles. China Quarterly 236 (December 2018)

“Introduction: The ‘Singapore model’ and China's Neo-Authoritarian Dream”
Ortmann, Stephan, and Mark R. Thompson.
China Quarterly 236 (December 2018): 930-945.
“From Sweden to Singapore: The Relevance of Foreign Models for China's Rise”
Yang, Kai, and Stephan Ortmann.
China Quarterly 236 (December 2018): 946-967.
“Power and Populism: What the Singapore Model Means for the Chinese Dream”
Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern.
China Quarterly 236 (December 2018): 968-987.
“China and the ‘Singapore Model’: Perspectives from Mid-level Cadres and Implications for Transnational Knowledge Transfer"
Liu, Hong, and Wang Ting-Yan.
China Quarterly 236 (December 2018): 988-1011.
“China and the ‘Singapore Model’: Perspectives from Mid-level Cadres and Implications for Transnational Knowledge Transfer - ERRATUM”
Liu, Hong, and Wang Ting-Yan.
“Mis-modelling Singapore: China's Challenges in Learning from the City-state”
Thompson, Mark R., and Stephan Ortmann.
China Quarterly 236 (December 2018): 1014-1032.