Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

[SINGAPORE] Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto thinks that South-east Asia’s goal to become a US$2 trillion economy by 2030 is achievable, on the back of ...

While free trade has become politically infeasible in Washington, there are other ways to shore up the U.S. presence in one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. For decades, free trade has been a ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...