The Southeast Asia Pacific Frontier

The Southeast Asia Pacific Frontier

Why Asia and the Pacific civil society organizations are reclaiming the narrative of climate mobility from top-down policy
Beyond displacement statistics, this piece explores how civil society is redefining climate mobility as a question of dignity, agency, and the…
 • Cyril Karl Carandan
How strategic delays pushed the Philippines toward joint oil and gas exploration with China
Decades of delay, rising energy pressure, and the strategic trade-offs behind Manila’s pivot to joint exploration with Beijing.
 • Shane Yumikura
Understanding the geopolitics of the US' Artemis Program as counter to China's ILRS program and its implications in the ASEAN-Pacific region
When space exploration becomes the next battlefield for global and space power.
 • Ronan Timothy P. Asturias
Why the Pacific region produces women leaders in student politics but not in parliaments
We must reflect and ask ourselves: “If we trust women to lead our students today, why do we fear them leading our nations tomorrow?”
 • Alice FRANCIS

March 2026

To speak is to belong? The Filipino accent and the politics of inclusion
The irony of speaking English in the Philippines is that proficiency only gets you in the door, but sounding a certain way grants you access to the…
 • Matthew Parra
Two ASEANs and the politics of crisis management beyond consensus
There are two ASEAN’s. One institutionally bound by consensus and one politically ASEAN by state initiative.
 • Matthew Parra
How the 60-day oil reserve countdown misreads the Philippines and Southeast Asia’s energy crisis amid the US-Iran War
Focusing on counting down the days to which reserves last displaces the real issue because the crisis does not begin on day 61 when tankers run dry. It…
 • Matthew Parra
Southeast Asia Pacific Frontier launches to advance strategic regional analysis led by emerging voices
As the region's architecture is being redrawn, we provide independent analysis Southeast Asia and the Pacific driven by the voices closest to it.
 • The SEA Pacific Frontier Team
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