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Forests, Food and Fuel

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Indonesia faces pronounced land-use challenges. The sprawling archipelagic state must deal with the legacies of short-sighted land conversions, the need to pursue foreign investment, capital growth and employment generation through profitable land intensive industries, and the rising food demands of a growing and increasingly urban population. This paper explores the intersection of these issues and comments upon some of the most pressing challenges inherent to maintaining food security, more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 04, 2012

The Process of ASEAN’s Institutional Consolidation in 1968-1976

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This paper, focusing on the 1968-1976 institutional changes of ASEAN, a Third World Security-Oriented Institution (SOI), attempts to develop a theoretical model of institutional transformation by utilizing a punctuated equilibrium model. This theoretical model illustrates interactions between structure and agent to explain both why and how institutional transformation occurs: first, changes in the external security environment foster or hinder SOI’s functions, and thus, they trigger internal more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

From Kyoto to Durban: The Fits and Starts of Global Climate Change Negotiations

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The 2011 outcomes from the UN's annual climate change meetings have again been met with both cautious optimism and charges that the process shows few signs of effectively addressing global climate challenges. The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, saw this dichotomy take on amplified relevance in the shadow of an expiring Kyoto Protocol. This NTS Insight takes this as an opportunity to review some of the fundamental structures that define climate change mitigation more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 22, 2012

Malaysia-Singapore Energy Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges

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Singapore and Malaysia are considering sharing electricity. Will this pave the way for an ASEAN-wide electricity grid, or even cooperation in the supply of nuclear energy?

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Moushumi Biswas on January 16, 2012

Politics and distrust in the rice trade: Implications of the shift towards self-sufficiency in the Philippines and Indonesia

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The volatility and instability in the rice market during the 2007–2008 food price crisis prompted two key rice importers, the Philippines and Indonesia, to pursue rice self-sufficiency with the aim of stabilising domestic rice supply and prices. This NTS Alert examines the impact of these actions for domestic and regional food security in terms of rice supply. It argues that the two countries' measures to increase production could improve stability and trust in the rice trade if, in their more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 22, 2012

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement currently under negotiation between nine countries in three continents, including Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States and Vietnam. In late 2011 three additional countries--Japan, Canada and Mexico--announced their intention to join as well. The TPP has always been called a "high quality, 21st century" agreement that covers a range of topics not always found in free trade agreements. This more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

How Indonesia Sees ASEAN and the World

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Over the past few years Indonesia’s political landscape has altered somewhat as a result of the rise of new nationalist NGOs and mass movements, that have called upon the Indonesian government to take a stronger stand when defending Indonesia’s national identity and position in ASEAN. This paper looks at how Indonesia’s school textbooks present the other countries and societies of ASEAN to ordinary school children in Indonesia, and looks at how Indonesian identity is framed in relation to the more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

India's Food Security Bill: A Waste or Win for the Hungry?

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Home to over 25 per cent of the world's hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indian Parliament is expected to pass this month ...more

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Moushumi Biswas on February 01, 2012

Comparative Protest Spaces in Asia and the Middle East

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Shrines, squares and soccer stadiums have provided the settings for anti-government protests and people power in Southeast Asia and the Middle East in recent decades. At times used for mass detentions and torture of regime opponents by the security forces in the Middle East and North Africa, soccer stadiums became battlefields of resistance by soccer fans against autocratic rulers as the fans became politicized, clashing with security forces and increasingly using matches to shout more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 07, 2012

Climate Change, Migration, and Human Security in Southeast Asia

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This policy brief provides a brief overview of the arguments surrounding climate change-induced migration as a risk factor for insecurity, identifies key concerns within Southeast Asia and offers some thoughts on a broad framework for policy responses that rely on a human security approach to this problem. In particular, it focuses on the importance of adaptation strategies and the need to understand the complexities of migration as a coping strategy.

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Sonia Hossain on October 30, 2011

Monetary Integration in ASEAN+3

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Recently, the ASEAN+3 countries have taken a number of measures to bolster monetary integration. These include the establishment of the ASEAN+3 Economic Review and Policy Dialogue and the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM).This paper assesses the views of ASEAN+3 opinion leaders through a perception survey. The opinion leaders feel that regional monetary unit(RMU), CMIM, and ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office(AMRO) could go a long way in deepening monetary integration in the more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 06, 2011

Women and Food Security

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Women are a social group vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem of food insecurity among women is especially rampant in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.The drivers of this vulnerability range from economic to social, cultural, legal and psychological factors.A comparison of indicators used to assess vulnerabilities of women in the two regions shows that the overall situation in South Asia is worse than that in Southeast Asia.

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Sonia Hossain on June 04, 2011

Japan in disaster: managing energy vulnerabilities

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This paper analyses the nuclear crises in Japan as a reality check for other states pursuing nuclear energy plans in South-East Asia. It discusses the ferocity and unpredictability of the earthquake and tsunami which challenged Japans record of effective disaster management capabilities and high safety standards; and raises questions as to the overall impact of the developments of the multiple nuclear meltdowns after explosions and leaks at the nuclear power plant reactors in Fukushima and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 20, 2011

Centre For Non-Traditional Security Studies Year In Review 2010

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) made important strides in 2010 with the convening of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) and the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Eight (ADMM Plus Eight). The establishment of these institutions reflects ASEAN’s focus on the development of responsive regional mechanisms. In order to effectively enhance national more...

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Moushumi Biswas on December 19, 2010

The Responsibility to Protect – A Way Forward

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This Insight investigates the origins and evolution of international intervention from the foundation of the United Nations in 1945 up to and beyond the inclusion of the Responsibility to Protect in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. It focuses on the role of United Nations peacekeeping forces and the internal and external bids and influences on their establishment. This Insight argues that the international community cannot stand by while mass atrocities occur but needs to recognise the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on September 28, 2010

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