[Recording] Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future

Recorded 11.07.2024

Thomas Parks discusses his new book Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War, in which he argues that Southeast Asia is emerging as an open, autonomous region where small and mid-level powers can maintain their sovereignty and shape the regional order. The book further contends that Southeast Asian countries also have a remarkable capacity to manage asymmetrical relations and balance external powers, and predicts that the region's future will look entirely different from its Cold War past.

Speaker: Thomas Parks, Vice President, the Asia Foundation

Moderator: Ann Marie Murphy, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Professor and Director, Center for Foreign Policy Studies, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

Hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by the Asia Foundation and NYSEAN.