CSIS Blogs

Indonesian president Joko Widodo visited both Ukraine and Russia last week to meet with the warring states’ respective leaders.

April 29 marked one year since Indonesia’s coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs Mahfud MD announced that “organizations and people in Papua who commit mass violence are categorized as terrorists.”

Laos’s relative moment in the sun has given way to cloudier skies, as economic peril begins to reverberate across the country.

Just as countries around the world have begun shifting their focus from Covid-19 to post-pandemic recovery, global inflation accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supply chain disruptions have placed economic growth plans in jeopardy.

If the U.S. is to remain competitive in an increasingly complex and technologically advanced global economy, it must learn from the successes and failures of other countries. Examining the experiences of Israel and other global innovation hubs can help draw out important lessons for sustaining a successful high-tech economy.

As it always does a year prior to a general election, Malaysia has entered in a period of intense political maneuvers and negotiations between parties.

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone regions. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific estimates that natural disasters drain the region of upwards of $86.5 billion in average annual economic losses.

Secretary Austin’s itinerary in Singapore and Thailand is meant to reinforce the United States’ commitment to the Indo-Pacific as a priority theater amid the Biden administration’s global security priorities.

On May 12, 2022, the Renewing American Innovation Project (RAI) at CSIS and the Indiana University Public Policy Institute (PPI) cohosted a webinar exploring Indiana’s efforts to build a resilient innovation economy.

Cambodia’s June 5 commune elections came and went without much in the way of surprises.