The United States has recently been touting its “convergence” with Asian partners. At the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin titled his remarks the ...

A worker cleans the carpet next to national flags ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ retreat meeting at the Langkawi International Convention Centre in Malaysia on Jan. 17, 2025. A worker cleans ...

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 ...

More than most regions in the world, Southeast Asia has found itself in the middle of the intensifying U.S.-Chinese rivalry. Most major countries in other parts of Asia are already spoken for: ...

Recent years have seen a revitalized interest in the role and status of language in our increasingly interconnected world. Language is a force that binds people together and enables cooperation from ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional grouping that aims to promote economic and security cooperation among its ten members: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, ...

In October 2018, the CSIS Southeast Asia Program hosted a small, high-level roundtable discussion on U.S.-Southeast Asia trade relations. The roundtable focused on the current state of play, emerging ...

In approximately 1958, as climate change began to warm the rest of the world, something odd happened in the southeastern United States: It began to cool. Between 1895 and 2016, the average U.S.