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Upcoming Events

The Impact of Geopolitical Tensions on Global Semiconductor Supply Chains

This talk examines how geopolitical tensions are reshaping foreign direct investment in semiconductor supply chains.
📍Mon, 23 Jun 2025
📍 Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am (Singapore time)
📍 Webinar
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Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War

This hybrid seminar explores Russia’s evolving role in Southeast Asia, based on Dr Ian Storey’s new book, with insights into post-Cold War relations, the Ukraine war, and the future of regional engagement.
📍Thur, 3 July 2025
📍 Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am (Singapore time)
📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1 & 2 / Webinar
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Symposium on Shifting Approaches to Nusantara: A ‘Green’ Capital City in Indonesia?

This symposium aims to critically assess the progress of Nusantara’s development, the environmental and technological considerations in building a ‘green’ city, and the political dynamics shaping the new capital city
📍Tuesday, Jul 08 2025
📍 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Singapore time)
📍 Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room 1 & 2 / Webinar
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Latest Books

Reviving UMNO: Party Institutionalization and Coalition Management in Selangor and Malacca

Tricia Yeoh, author

Date of publication: 2025

Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 37

Code: TRS13/25

Soft Cover

ISBN: 9789815306835

Ebook is available

Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War

Ian Storey, author

Date of publication: 2025

Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 503

Code: BM644

Soft Cover

ISBN: 9789815306439

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Energy and Decarbonization in Southeast Asia, volume 2

Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Sharon Seah, Qiu Jiahui, editors

Date of publication: 2025

Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 259

Code: ASC19

Soft Cover

ISBN: 9789815306019

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Malaysia Chairs ASEAN at a Strategic Crossroads: Priorities, Opportunities and Challenges

Joanne Lin, Kristina Fong, Melinda Martinus, authors

Date of publication: 2025

Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 37

Code: TRS12/25

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ISBN: 9789815306743

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A Historical Note on Economic Reforms in Myanmar, 2006 to 2016

Lex Rieffel, author

Date of publication: 2025

Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 57

Code: TRS11/25

Soft Cover

ISBN: 9789815306729

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Spill the Teh: On this special episode leading to Malaysia’s 15th General Election, Spill The Teh looks back at the nation’s first generation of leaders and what made them effective nation-builders. In the programme, Ooi Kee Beng discusses his book The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time.
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New Books Network Podcast: Supalak Ganjanakhundee discusses his book A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X with Duncan McCargo, director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen. Click here for details.

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Book News

Irene Ng's The Lion's Roar has been chosen as a finalist in two categories for the SBPA Book Awards 2025. NEW
Did you know S. Rajaratnam was writer of fiction, radio plays, and journalism? Listen to this interview by The Singapore International Festival of the Arts with author Irene Ng <<NEW
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Upcoming Events

The Impact of Geopolitical Tensions on Global Semiconductor Supply Chains

Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War

Symposium on Shifting Approaches to Nusantara: A ‘Green’ Capital City in Indonesia?

Articles on ISEAS Books

Third World Resurgence has published an excerpt of the ISEAS book COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of Our Time by Lim Mah-Hui and Michael Heng Siam-Heng.
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William Dalrymple has published an article in The New York Review of Books that reviews two ISEAS titles: The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Asia, volume 1, edited by Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, and Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia: Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons, edited by Andrea Acri.
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Richard Yarrow has published a short essay in the East Asia Forum based on his Trends in Southeast Asia piece Thailand’s Economic Dilemmas in Post-Pandemic Asia. The essay has been featured in an editorial in the East Asia Forum and subsequently picked up by several other outlets, including the Australian Financial Review and Thailand Business News.

Article featuring new book by Supalak Ganjanakhundee A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X by Political Editorial Team for Prachatai English. Click here for details.

Recent Book Reviews

Kevin Hewison, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2023

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Prof Kevin Tan of National University of Singapore, Asian Studies Review, April 2025
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Prof Allan T. F. Pang of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, May 2025
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