Southeast Asia
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ANZUS and alliance politics in Southeast Asia: revisiting the ‘southern flank’
The southern-flank portion of the U.S regional alliance network—also known as the ‘San Francisco system’—includes formal bilateral defence treaties with Thailand and the Philippines and the ANZUS defence pact. This report outlines an assessment of how the San Francisco system’s southern flank matters in contemporary U.S strategic policy.
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Despite the odds: Timor-Leste’s quest to avoid a debt trap dilemma and achieve democratic stability
This paper details how Dilli might opt to confront some of its most sizable challenges—whether in terms of providing sustainable economic growth, pursuing democratic consolidation, or in fending off some of the more predatory trade policies of its larger neighbors.
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Finding partners: Timor-Leste’s evolving security ties with Southeast Asia
This paper explores how Timor-Leste’s sense of geopolitical vulnerability, as a young democracy in an increasingly rivalrous region—when coupled with a number of pressing domestic imperatives—has played a key role in shaping its strategic outlook.
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ASEAN and Western Australia’s economic future: Report from the Western Australia-ASEAN Trade and Investment Dialogue 2018
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will increasingly trade, invest and build regional value chains between themselves, and the involvement of other economic powers in Southeast Asia will only increase. For WA to be meaningfully engaged, relationships of genuine partnership need to be developed. ASEAN leaders need to view WA as a source of...
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Benevolent harm: orphanages, voluntourism and child sexual exploitation in South-East Asia
This paper reviews the literature to explore the risks of sexual exploitation faced by children living in orphanages in South-East Asia, as well as the links between orphanages and child trafficking, illicit adoption, and orphanage scams.