The State of Southeast Asia: 2025 Survey Report

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AuthorKristina FongIndira Zahra AridatiSharon SeahJoanne LinMelinda MartinusPham Thi Phuong ThaoDescriptionThe State of Southeast Asia 2025 Survey conducted by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute reveals climate change as the region’s top challenge for the first time, followed by unemployment and economic recession, and intensifying economic tensions between the major powers. Concerns over aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea, global scam operations and the new US leadership were the region’s overall top geopolitical concerns. Amidst these challenges, more than a third of regional respondents expressed concern that ASEAN was ineffective in coping with these political and economic developments, and that ASEAN was becoming irrelevant in the new world order.Publication Date3 April 2025LanguageEnglish

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