This compendium report—as part of the CSIS-Pertamina Southeast Asia Energy Initiative—provides a summary of insights on the role of renewable energy in Southeast Asia and its economic, political, and security importance in the Indo-Pacific region.

This CSIS Brief analyzes aspects of financial integration and infrastructure development in Southeast Asia. The United States has a varied and essential role to play in both.

This report provides a summary of the discussion from a CSIS roundtable held on October 18, 2017,as part of the CSIS-Pertamina Energy Security Roundtable Series.

This compendium report provides a summary of the discussions from a series of three CSIS roundtables held in 2017, as part of the CSIS-Pertamina Energy Security Roundtable Series.

Indonesia’s April 2019 general elections are still 18 months away, but the potential challengers to incumbent president Joko Widodo—popularly known as “Jokowi”—are beginning to emerge and hone their campaign narratives. Candidates for the 2019 presidential election...

Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, will meet U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House on October 23—the fourth Southeast Asian leader to do so this year. Following visits by Vietnam’s Nguyen Xuan Phuc (May), Malaysia’s Najib Razak (September),...

Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s visit to the White House on October 2 could mark a significant step toward normalizing Thai-U.S. relations, which have been strained since the Thai general toppled an elected government in May 2014. Washington responded by suspending...

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s visit to the White House on September 12 has injected new energy into a bilateral relationship that had slipped into a funk during the last two years of the previous U.S. administration. Some of this coolness resulted from Najib’s...