8+ hour, 9+ min ago  (559+ words) Nevertheless, the ingredients for extremist violence are as prevalent today as they have been since the major post-9/11 wars: conflict, atrocity, and instability in the Middle East; polarisation, division, and culture wars in the West; and the circulation of conspiracy…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (566+ words) Yet, in early 2026, the Trump administration announced the US'withdrawal'from the UNFCCC and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), along with more than sixty other international institutions, claiming that they no longer served US interests. What has changed since the…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (20+ words) CO26070 | How Australia's Anti-Hate Laws May Feed Its Far-Right Hydra'S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (173+ words) S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) - Malay Youth Political Realignment: Identity, Discontent, Social Media, and the Turn Toward Conservative Islamic Politics This paper analyses rising support among young Malay Malaysians for religious leadership in politics, as shown in recent surveys…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (420+ words) Contemporary US-China relations are therefore better understood not as a new Cold War or an inevitable power-transition conflict, but as institutionalised, multidimensional competition unfolding under conditions of emerging bipolarisation. The defining feature of this rivalry is not imminent rupture, but…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (225+ words) " The conflict in the Middle East has had significant economic costs for India, given its dependence on energy supplies from the region and the huge number of Indian nationals who live and work there. " While the United States has temporarily…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (484+ words) Historically, that instinct has served it well. Fast forward to today, and the pattern persists. The question then is: will India's strategic opportunism work in a world that is no longer merely multipolar, but fractured? India has resisted that logic....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (192+ words) With the latest phase of the People's Liberation Army anti-corruption campaign now completed, China's commander-in-chief finally has a freer hand to reshape the Chinese military. Since China announced in late January that its top soldier, General Zhang Youxia, had been…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (248+ words) " Aid in Southeast Asia is set to further decrease as traditional donors announce aid cuts amid already falling levels of global aid. " An emerging challenge for Southeast Asia is the entrenchment of the development divide among ASEAN member states as…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (597+ words) In such moments, the instinct is to focus on ASEAN's institutional shortcomings " its lack of collective bargaining power, reliance on consensus for decision-making, and weak enforcement mechanisms. However, this perspective obscures what ASEAN has quietly amassed: a network of strategic…...