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In Search of Thailand’s New Industrial Strategy
This webinar revisits key debates surrounding industrial policy and examine its evolution in Thailand, from the Thailand 4.0 initiative to current efforts supporting electric vehicles and semiconductor production.
Book Launch: The Jokowi Presidency
Join us for a special event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ANU Indonesia Project with the launch of the latest Update Book: The Jokowi Presidency.
📍Mon, 28 Jul 2025
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Latest Books
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
Myanmar’s Uncharted Territories: Pitfalls and Prospects in Emergent Forms of Governance

Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
26
Code:
TRS16/25
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306880
Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia

Erica M Larson, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute / University of Hawai‘i Press
Number of pages:
235
Code:
BM643
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306422
Obstacles to Reform in Myanmar: Lessons from the Past, for a Better Future

Winston Set Aung, author
Date of publication:
2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
32
Code:
TRS15/25
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815306873
Latest Journal Issues
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
Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 47/1 (April 2025)

Date of publication:
April 2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
161
Code:
CS47/1
Soft Cover
ISSN: 0129797X
Journal of Southeast Asian Economies Vol. 42/1 (April 2025)

Date of publication:
April 2025
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
121
Code:
AE42/1
Soft Cover
ISSN: 23395095
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Podcasts on ISEAS Titles 🎧
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.
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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.
Did you know S. Rajaratnam was a writer of fiction, radio plays, and journalism? Listen to this interview by The Singapore International Festival of the Arts with author Irene Ng
Media Features on The Lion’s Roar. Click here to read more.
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Read the ASEAN Wonk review here!
Upcoming Events
Book Talk - Putin's Russia and Southeast Asia

📍Sat, 23 Aug 2025
📍Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Singapore time)
📍Venue: The Book Bar
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📍Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Singapore time)
📍Venue: The Book Bar
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In Search of Thailand’s New Industrial Strategy
This webinar revisits key debates surrounding industrial policy and examine its evolution in Thailand, from the Thailand 4.0 initiative to current efforts supporting electric vehicles and semiconductor production.
Book Launch: The Jokowi Presidency
Join us for a special event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ANU Indonesia Project with the launch of the latest Update Book: The Jokowi Presidency.
📍Mon, 28 Jul 2025
📍Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm (AEST)
📍Venue: Australia, Coombs Tea Room, HC Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT, The Australian National University
For more information
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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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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.
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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.
Recent Book Reviews

Prof Deden Rukmana, South East Asia Research, July 2025
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Dr Prashanth Parameswaran, ASEAN Wonk, Mar 2025
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