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Upcoming Events
Contemporary Islam in Southeast Asia Amid Geopolitical Change
This conference examines contemporary interactions between Muslims in Southeast Asia and the external world.
📅 Tue - Wed, 2 - 3 Sep 2025 | 🕒 9:00 am - 5: 00 pm (SGT) | 📍 Seminar Room 2
From Dialogue to Action: Deepening India-ASEAN Engagement
This panel discussion will explore how the ‘Act East’ policy has shaped India-ASEAN cooperation and identify shared priorities for
mutual growth and stability. It will also examine how both sides can deepen ties without unsettling other relationships – ultimately
creating better opportunities for their people.
📅 Thur, 4 Sep 2025 | 🕒 3:30 pm - 5:45 pm (SGT) | 📍 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS Board Room),#09-06 (Block B), 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore, Singapore 119620
Opportunities and Challenges in Energy Decarbonization in Southeast Asia
In this hybrid seminar, three contributors will share the main findings of their research on topics including investment in Southeast Asia’s energy sector, the impact of resource nationalism on renewable energy trade, and the opportunities for using smart grids to implement the ASEAN Power Grid.
📅 Tue, 9 Sep 2025 | 🕒 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm (SGT) | 📍 Seminar Room 2 / Webinar
Latest Books
Wee Kim Wee: President, Diplomat, Journalist and a True Singaporean

Cheong Suk-Wai, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
213
Code:
BM635
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815203202
The Mango Flavour: India and ASEAN After a Decade of the Act East Policy

Gurjit Singh, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
284
Code:
ASC18
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815203981
Nahdlatul Ulama and its Political Engagement with Indonesian Presidents

A'an Suryana, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
26
Code:
TRS19/25
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306958
The Democratic Action Party at Sixty: Struggles over Seniority, Structure, and Strategy

Francis E Hutchinson, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
31
Code:
TRS18/25
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306934
The Jokowi Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Authoritarian Revival
Hard Cover
ISBN: 9789815306828
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306798
Youth Perceptions of Income Inequality in Six Southeast Asian Countries

Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
30
Code:
TRS17/25
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306910
Latest Journal Issues
Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 47/2 (August 2025)

Date of publication:
August 2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
190
Code:
CS47/2
Soft Cover
ISSN: 0129797X
Journal of Southeast Asian Economies Vol. 42/2 (August 2025)

Date of publication:
August 2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
117
Code:
AE42/2
Soft Cover
ISSN: 23395095
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Vol. 40/2 (July 2025)

Date of publication:
June 2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
148
Code:
SJ40/2
Soft Cover
ISSN: 02179520
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Singapore’s founding economic architect through the lens of In Lieu of Ideology.
Keith Yap sits down with political historian Ooi Kee Beng to unpack the ideas of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore’s founding economic architect. Discover how Goh’s pragmatism, vision, and nation-building strategies shaped modern Singapore. Learn more in
In Lieu of Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of Goh Keng Swee.
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Book News
Longlist for The Alan Chan Spirit of Singapore Book Prize

Two ISEAS Publishing titles have been longlisted for the 2025 Dr Alan HJ Chan ‘Spirit of Singapore’ Book Prize. The Lion’s Roar by Irene Ng and He Who is Made Lord by Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid..
Upcoming Events
Contemporary Islam in Southeast Asia Amid Geopolitical Change
This conference examines contemporary interactions between Muslims in Southeast Asia and the external world.
📅 Tue - Wed, 2 - 3 Sep 2025 | 🕒 9:00 am - 5: 00 pm (SGT) | 📍 Seminar Room 2
From Dialogue to Action: Deepening India-ASEAN Engagement
This panel discussion will explore how the ‘Act East’ policy has shaped India-ASEAN cooperation and identify shared priorities for
mutual growth and stability. It will also examine how both sides can deepen ties without unsettling other relationships – ultimately
creating better opportunities for their people.
📅 Thur, 4 Sep 2025 | 🕒 3:30 pm - 5:45 pm (SGT) | 📍 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS Board Room),#09-06 (Block B), 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore, Singapore 119620
Opportunities and Challenges in Energy Decarbonization in Southeast Asia
In this hybrid seminar, three contributors will share the main findings of their research on topics including investment in Southeast Asia’s energy sector, the impact of resource nationalism on renewable energy trade, and the opportunities for using smart grids to implement the ASEAN Power Grid.
📅 Tue, 9 Sep 2025 | 🕒 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm (SGT) | 📍 Seminar Room 2 / Webinar
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.
Click here for the issue.
Click here for the issue.
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.
Click here for the article.
Click here for the article.
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.
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