RSIS Publications for the Year
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The CVE Defunding Scare: Implications for Singapore and ASEAN
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Uneven Renewable Energy Progress: The Role of State–Market Alignment in the Philippines and Indonesia
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The Limitations of Third-Party Mediation: Prospects for the Iran Denuclearisation Talks
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The Untold Story of Wan Gang and the Success of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
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The Emerging Fluid, Flexible Gx World Order
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RSIS Annual Review 2025
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Future Issues and Technology – 2025 Year in Review
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Electricity Demand by AI Data Centres and the Role of Nuclear Energy
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NTS Bulletin May 2026
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Powering the AI Era: Nuclear Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Science, Technology and Security: Energy Security (May 2026)
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The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant: A Potential Energy Solution for AI Growth in the Philippines
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The Mekong’s Energy Dilemma: Climate Pressure, Technological Shifts, and the Future of Hydropower
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Think Tank 2026
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Multilateral Matters – April 2026
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NTS Bulletin April 2026
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Beyond Relief! Issue 12
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NTS Bulletin March 2026
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NTS Bulletin February 2026
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Multilateral Matters – January 2026
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NTS Bulletin January 2026
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Beyond Fast Followership: Why Small States Should Build Adaptive Capacity
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Is Fusion Energy Proliferation Resistant?
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Shangri-La Dialogue Shows How International Cooperation is Going Back to Basics
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With or Without You: U2 Comes to Shangri-La
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The 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: What it Means for Southeast Asia
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A World Rearmed: Re-imagining Arms Control
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The Shangri-La Dialogue at 23: China’s Loss, Allies’ Gain
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Beyond Counter Narratives: Why Indonesia Needs a Prosecutorial Turn on Online Extremism
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The Emerging US-China Energy Rivalry: Fossil Power vs Renewable Energy
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Why Agentic AI Social Networks are a Southeast Asian Concern
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Timor-Leste’s Agency at the 25th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting and the 48th ASEAN Summit
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Is the European Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Already Coming to an End?
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Trump-Xi Summit: Tactical Concessions but Little Strategic Breakthrough
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Russian Christofascism and the Emergent Far Right World Order
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Is a Regional Launchpad the Next Step for ASEAN’s Space Strategy?
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Demographic Cognitive Resilience in an Ageing Society
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The WPS Agenda and Mutual Aid: Transforming Regional Aspirations to Local Commitments
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A strong and competitive European Union is in the interest of Singapore
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Beyond Great Power Rivalry: Indigenous Southeast Asian Frameworks of Order in a Fragmented World
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Implications of the Iran War for Security on the Korean Peninsula
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Re-Examining Plurilateral Approaches Following the WTO’s Recent Ministerial Conference in Cameroon
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The Collision of Imbalances Shaping a More Contested World – and Why Tariffs Are Not the Answer
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Managing the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Insights from the Philippines
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Climate Archives and the New Geography of Risk
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India’s New PRAHAAR Doctrine and the Regional Terrorism Landscape
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Will the Iran War Finally Spur ASEAN into Collective Action on Energy Security?
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A World in Motion: The United States and the Remaking of the Global System
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Inside Iran’s Information War on the US – AI, Propaganda, and Perception Management
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Family Matters: How the KMT–CCP Meeting Ripples Through US and China Strategies
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Wasatiyyah Under Pressure: Bridging Ethics, Context, and Geopolitics in Contemporary Muslim Discourse
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A Plan for Inclusive Peace in Chaotic Times: ASEAN’s Regional Framework for Women, Peace and Security
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Alternatives to Hormuz: How to Export Oil and Gas from the Persian Gulf
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At a Crossroads: Malaysian Federalism and Special Fiscal Rights of Sabah and Sarawak
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Impact of Strait of Hormuz Blockage on the Situation in Myanmar
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Conditional Reset: India’s Calculus in Post-Election Bangladesh
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The Desired Global Order from Beijing’s Perspective
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Can the US Dollar Withstand the Trump Onslaught?
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Reading in the Age of AI: A Life Skill More Crucial Than Ever Before
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BRICS and the Persian Gulf Crisis: Lessons for ASEAN’s Strategic Coherence?
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Peace in Motion: A Buddhist Journey for Social Cohesion in a Divided World
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Polarised Discourse on a Public Iftar: Christian and Secular Values in Dispute
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Why History Matters in Diplomacy
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Governing the Post-Jemaah Islamiyah Ecosystem in Indonesia
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Singapore Cannot Import its Way to Energy Security
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Staying Ahead of Cyber Threats for a Secure Regional Cyberspace
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ASEAN’s Economic Agenda: Towards Greater Strategic Agency?
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Learned in Text, Literate in Context: The Vision for the Singapore College of Islamic Studies
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Overlapping Landscapes of Technological Innovation, Dual-Use, and International Resilience
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Food Security in ASEAN’s 2026 Agenda: Perspectives on Human Security and Inclusiveness Amidst Crises
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Situation in the Taiwan Strait and Implications for Singapore
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Developing Capacity for Cyber Defence: Insights from Finland
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Tailoring Prevention: Shared Approaches to Tackling Violent Extremism in Malaysia
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Effective Sustainable Development
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The UN Climate Regime and the US Withdrawal
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How Australia’s Anti-Hate Laws May Feed Its Far-Right Hydra
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Global Water Bankruptcy: Southeast Asia’s Water Future Is a Peace and Security Issue
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Implications of Israel’s Death Penalty Law on Two-State Diplomacy
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The South China Sea – Ten Years After the 2016 Arbitral Award
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The EU and Singapore: Partnering for Resilience in the Indo-Pacific
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Bipolarisation and Olympic-Style Competition in US-China Relations
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India’s Strategic Opportunism in a Fractured World
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A New Milestone in China’s Military Transformation
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Unpacking the Upcoming Global Mechanism on ICTs in the Context of International Security and the Role of Non-state Stakeholders
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ASEAN’s Strategic Assets in An Uncertain World
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Singapore’s Record Low Fertility Rate is Not Gloom and Doom
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Amoral and Acontextual Analysis in an Increasingly Inhumane World
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ReCAAP at 20: Why Asia’s Counter-Piracy Treaty Still Matters
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Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act – Has It Addressed the Issue?
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The Iran War and the Weaponisation of the Global Energy System
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Problems and Prospects for Naval Escorts in the Strait of Hormuz
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Resilience Under Fire: The UAE’s Emerging Model of Total Defence
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Securing ASEAN’s Food Resilience Amidst the Middle East Conflict
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Nuclear Energy’s New Momentum: Can World Capacity Triple by 2050?
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Small Island Fragility and Resilience Amid Global Disorder
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Adapting the ASEAN Geoeconomics Task Force: From Assessment to Action
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Hamas: A Threat Beyond the Middle East
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The Iran War: The Centre of Gravity Shifts to the Strait of Hormuz
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Towards a Negotiated “End State” for Peace in Southern Thailand
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How to Re-Open the Strait of Hormuz While the War Rages On
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Taliban-Pakistan Relations Unravel Over Cross-border Terrorism
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Challenges Facing Malay Rural Youth in Kelantan
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Learning from History: The Netherlands’ Support for Ukraine’s Security
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Singapore’s Maritime Security and the Governance of Public Awareness
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Before the Nine-Dash Line: France’s Sovereignty Claims in the South China Sea (1930-1956)
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The Trouble When Fact-Checking is In English and Social Media Isn’t
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From Online Play to Solemn Pledge: Youth Radicalisation in Digital Spaces
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How China’s Economic Model Sparks a Rethink About Global Competition
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Fiscal Firepower in a More Dangerous World
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The Challenges for Bangladesh’s New Government
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From Threat to Vulnerability: Rethinking Radicalisation in Singapore
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Constitutional Significance of the Najib Razak “Addendum Case” on Royal Pardon
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Protecting Critical Maritime Infrastructure: A Multi-Domain Approach to Maritime Security Governance
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ASEAN and the Indian Ocean: Bridging the Strategic Gap
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Policing the Feed: AI-Generated Sexual Content on Social Media and Its Impacts on the Vulnerable
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The New Naval Arms Race: Geopolitical Drivers and Global Risks
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Southeast Asia’s AI Data Centre Advantage: Is Space the Next Frontier?
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What Lies Ahead: A Fluid, Improvised, Flexible and Inchoate World Order?
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Will Trump Become America’s Deng Xiaoping – or Its Gorbachev?
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Challenges of the Urban Malay Youth: Zooming in on Kuala Lumpur
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Listening to the Youth and Countering Online Narratives
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Humanitarian Cooperation as Common Ground: Lessons from the Devon Bay Search-and-Rescue Operation
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The Bondi Attack: ISIS-Inspired Antisemitic Terrorism in Australia
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China and Russia in the Arctic: From a Bumpy Ride to Deeper Engagement
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Rare Earth and Southeast Asia: Supply Chain and its Security
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Vehicles with OTA Capabilities – A Threat to National Security?
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The Keraniganj Explosion: A Window into the Resurgence of Islamic State Bengal
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Prospects for Advancing Economic Resilience through the Future of Investment and Trade Partnership (FIT-P)
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Digital Platforms as Ideological Incubators: Rethinking Youth Radicalisation in Singapore
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Countering Online Radicalisation in Indonesia – Policy Needs to Keep Pace with Changes
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Grok – An Emerging AI Governance Moment for Southeast Asia
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Nuclear Latency is Not Nuclear Proliferation
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The Tariff War That Wasn’t: What Economists Missed About Trump’s Trade Gambit
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Violence for Violence’s Sake: The Rise of Nihilistic Violent Extremism
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China-Iran
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Ukraine Peace Proposals – The Limits of Normative Settlements
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Countering North Korea’s Growing Drone Threat
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Evaluating the Prospects of Regime Change in Iran
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Generation Z, Diaspora Identity, and the New Face of Online Radicalisation
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Takaichi’s Misplaced Hedging
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Why the Najib Factor Continues to Represent a Gaping Wound for the Malaysian Polity
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Enhancing Information Literacy and Resilience in Singapore
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Anwar Ibrahim: The Pleasure and Peril of Flying Solo
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Bondi Beach Shooting: Salient Reminders for Singapore
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Global Terrorism Forecast 2026
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Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) – Volume 18 Issue 03
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Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) – Volume 18 Issue 02
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Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) – Volume 18 Issue 01
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Global Governance Adrift: Pathways Forward for Non-Traditional Security
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- Report of a conference organised by The Centre of Non-Traditional Security Studies,, from 07 April 2026 to 08 April 2026
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AI’s Impact on China’s Security Strategy and Asian Regional Security
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- Report of a workshop organised by China Programme, IDSS, 24 February 2026
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Electricity Demand by AI Data Centres and the Role of Nuclear Energy
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Powering the AI Era: Nuclear Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Science, Technology and Security: Energy Security (May 2026)
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The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant: A Potential Energy Solution for AI Growth in the Philippines
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The Mekong’s Energy Dilemma: Climate Pressure, Technological Shifts, and the Future of Hydropower
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Artificial Intelligence, Cybercrime, and the Reassessment of Security
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Australia’s Approach to Addressing AI-Enabled Crime
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Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Evolving Cybercrime Landscape in Southeast Asia
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Responding to AI-Enabled Cybercrime: Governance, Attribution, and Escalation
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Science, Technology and Security: AI-Enabled Crime (January 2026)
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IP26071 | A Proactive Japan Deepens Pragmatic Cooperation with Southeast Asia
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IP26070 | India’s Growing Naval Diplomacy in the Indian Ocean: Challenges and Opportunities
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IP26069 | Reopening Hormuz: The Case for European Leadership
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IP26068 | Indonesia’s Heavy Strategic Hedging amid a Polarised World
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IP26067 | Prabowo’s Defence Challenge: Making “Triple Helix” Work
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IP26066 | The FPDA: A Force for Stability in a Sea of Change
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IP26065 | Fiscal Recentralisation and Its Uneven Impact in the Riau Islands
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IP26064 | Thunder in Silence: Is China Entering a Copper Moment?
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IP26063 | Global China, China-Shedding and Southeast Asia’s Regulatory Challenge
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IP26062 | France and South Korea at 140: Cordial, but Underexplored Relations
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IP26061 | It Takes Two to Tango: Conditions for Joint Development in the South China Sea
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IP26060 | Manila-ASPECT and ASEAN Disaster Governance: Can ASEAN Act Faster?
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IP26059 | Iran’s Sea Control Does Much More than “Close” the Strait of Hormuz
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IP26058 | France’s Military AI Ambitions: Between Sovereignty and Global Leadership
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IP26057 | Beyond the Alignment Scorecard: Malaysia and the United States
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IP26055 | India and the Middle East Conflict: Options and Responses
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IP26056 | International Regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Divergence and the Way Forward
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IP26054 | Doubling Down: The US Cybersecurity Strategy 2026
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IP26053 | Navigating Falling Aid Flows in Southeast Asia: The Need to Invest in Political Will
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IP26052 | The Earth–Space Interface: An Overlooked Vulnerability
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IP26051 | Optimum Essential Force at Sea: Building Coherence in Indonesia’s Naval Modernisation
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IP26050 | The Rise of Citizen Protection in Indonesian Foreign Policy in the Reform Era
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IP26048 | India-US Defence Partnership: Moving Away from the Buyer-Seller Model?
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IP26049 | Zebra Changing Its Stripes? The United States in Southeast Asia
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IP26047 | The Fate of the Iranian Navy in the Indian Ocean Foreshadows Dilemmas for Asia’s Neutral States
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IP26046 | Japan’s Balancing Act in the Iran War
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IP26044 | The Logic of Access in US Digital Policy and Diplomacy
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IP26045 | Southeast Asia amid China-Japan Tensions: A Difficult Path Ahead
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IP26043 | From Conflict to Collaboration: The Rempang Dispute and Indonesia’s Reinvented Transmigration Policy
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IP26042 | Strengthening ASEAN-India Ties: Increasing Climate Cooperation in the Maritime Domain
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IP26041 | Beyond Food Resilience: The Indonesian Army’s Territorial Development Battalions
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IP26039 | Protecting Critical Undersea Infrastructure: Accelerating the Momentum in ASEAN
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IP26040 | Beyond Building Ships: Lessons from the UK for Indonesia’s Naval Ambitions
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IP26038 | India in the Age of Trump: Seeking Autonomy amid Constraints
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IP26037 | The Neglected Security Aspect of Outer Space Capacity Building in Southeast Asia
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IP26036 | Beyond Domestic: China’s 2026 Two Sessions and Implications for Southeast Asia
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IP26035 | From Bricks and Mortar to Equity, Finance and Capital: China’s Evolved Engagement in Southeast Asia
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IP26034 | Indonesia’s Aircraft Carrier Acquisition: A Planned Force Transformation?
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IP26033 | Voluntary Weapons Control: Private Companies and Global Bio-governance
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IP26031 | Doubling Down: The Supreme Court Defeat Only Hardened Trump’s Tariff Resolve
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IP26032 | Southeast Asia’s Rising Quantum Ecosystem: Implications for Singapore
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IP26030 | Charting Priorities for the Indonesian Navy
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IP26029 | The Uncertain Future of the REAIM Summit
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IP26027 | Establishing Maritime Authority: Law, Politics, and Indonesia’s Coastguard
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IP26028 | Malaysia-China Joint Military Exercises: Significance and Limitations
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IP26026 | A Shifting Global Order: Can ASEAN Navigate Major Power Unilateralism?
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IP26025 | Takaichi Romps to Victory in the Lower House: Implications for Japan’s Regional Relations
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IP26024 | A Disaster or a Political Test? Performance, Public Acceptance and Electability after the Sumatra Floods
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IP26023 | China’s AI Start-ups as “National Champions”: Advancing China’s Tech Ambitions under Constraint
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IP26022 | FPDA at 55: A Critical Pillar of Malaysia’s Defence Strategy
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IP26021 | China–South Korea Relations: Strategic Imperatives Amid a Changing Asia-Pacific Geopolitical Landscape
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IP26020 | The Trump Battleship Controversy: Big Ships and Battle Systems
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IP26019 | China’s Vision of South Asian Order
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IP26018 | What Zhang Youxia’s Purge Could Mean for China’s 21st Party Congress
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IP26017 | Beyond Strategic Autonomy: Why Indonesia Is Moving Closer to Russia
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IP26016 | China’s Use of Economic Punishment: Strategic Signalling, Red Lines and Returns
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IP26015 | The Future of India–US Tech Supply Chain Security Cooperation
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IP26014 | 2026 Outlook for KEPRI: Fiscal Pressure and Political Centralisation Test Resilience
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IP26013 | Orbiting Together: The Strategic Case for an Indonesia–Singapore Spaceport
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IP26011 | Trump’s Hemispheric Ambitions: Implications for Southeast Asia
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IP26012 | Targeting Tankers: Reasons, Risks and Consequences
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IP26010 | Closing the Gap: AI-Enabled Maritime Domain Awareness in Southeast Asia
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IP26009 | The Sumatra Floods as a Governance Stress Test
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IP26007 | The Rise of Mutual Aid: Rethinking Humanitarian Frameworks and Transforming Humanitarian Practice
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IP26008 | The Double-edged Sword of China’s Export Control Application in Southeast Asia
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IP26005 | Humanitarian Aid in an Era of Transactional Diplomacy
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IP26006 | US–Indonesia Relations: Navigating Power in a Shifting World Order
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IP26004 | China’s Strategic Design and Cautious Calibration of Rare Earth Leverage
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IP26003 | How Has Malaysia as ASEAN Chair Fared in Handling the Myanmar Crisis?
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IP26002 | Global Governance of the AI–Nuclear Nexus: Unpacking UNGA Resolution 80/23
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IP26001 | A War of Two Worlds
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Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 34 – Online Interfaith Dialogue: Authenticity and Identity by Andrew Smith, Dilwar Hussain, Oemer Shener, Rifah Nanjiba, and Sophie Thalmayr
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Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 33 – Ummah in the Qur’ān: Reconciling Exclusive and Inclusive Visions of Ummah by Muhammad Haniff Hassan
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Ethical Engagement and Public Support for AI Governance in Singapore
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Board of Peace and the Role of Personalised Diplomacy: Can Prabowo Successfully Navigate Public Resistance?
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What is Polarisation? A Policy Guide
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Unpacking Contestation in Southeast Asia’s Renewable Energy Development
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Caught Between, Embedded Within: Gulf Hedging in an Interlocking Regional Order
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CRISIS: More Than a Moment – COVID-19 and How to Respond to Types of Crises as They Unfold
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Defining Polarisation: An Analysis and Typology
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