MSMEs in the ASEAN Economic Community: Connecting the Blueprint to Real-World Action
The piece examines how key ASEAN economic instruments, reports, and domestic policies reflect MSME progress and challenges in regional integration
The piece examines how key ASEAN economic instruments, reports, and domestic policies reflect MSME progress and challenges in regional integration
CIL Research Fellow Liu Yulu published an article on ‘Southeast Asian Countries at the Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution and the Bridging with ASEAN Marine Plastic Policies’ in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, Volume 10 (2025): Issue 2 (Nov 2025). This article discusses the management of plastic pollution …
CIL’s Dr Jon Truby has co-authored a new open-access article in the journal ‘Technology in Society’ entitled ‘Hybrid Global Governance for Responsible and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence: Proposing a New Sustainable Development Goal 18.’ The article proposes a new SDG 18 dedicated to responsible and inclusive AI governance and uses the SDGs as a politically feasible, …
Dr Jon Truby’s published a summary of his conference presentation in AsianSIL Voices on the subject of AI, Satellite Technologies and Climate Sustainability. He examines how AI and satellite data can support climate accountability following the UN Global Digital Compact and recent ITLOS and ICJ advisory opinions. He outlines how these developments shape due diligence …
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Visiting Scholar Yuan Feng has published a review of Understanding Maritime Security by Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds in the journal International Affairs. In the review, Yuan praises the book’s comprehensive analysis of maritime security, from traditional threats like piracy to emerging challenges such as ‘blue crime’ and the impacts of climate change. However, he also contends …
CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr. Mohammad Hazrati has co-authored an article titled “Distractions to Renewable Programs: A Comparative Assessment,” published in Sustainable Earth Reviews on 15 July 2025. The article investigates how global disruptions—such as the war in Ukraine, Middle East conflicts, and the COVID-19 pandemic—have contributed to a resurgence in fossil fuel demand, diverting …
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Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho Research Associate Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho has published the article titled ‘Operations for the protection of foreign-flagged vessels at sea against Houthi attacks: a case of collective self-defence?’ in the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law. Eduardo examines the legality of EUNAVFOR’s Operation Aspides and of the US-led …
Denise Cheong Youna Lyons Nivedita S Research Fellow Nivedita S, Senior Global Fellow, Youna Le Berre Lemaire Lyons (also Chair & Trustee, Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS)) and Head of Energy Law and Policy Denise Cheong have co-authored an article on “Floating Nuclear at IMO: Protection of the Marine Environment from Potential Releases of …
CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr Mohammad Hazrati had his article “Interconnected Challenges: Examining the Nexus of Environmental Crime and Money Laundering in the Context of Energy Transition“ published in the Journal of Economic and Criminology. The article explores the growing link between environmental crimes, like illegal mining and e-waste trafficking, and financial crimes such as …
Title: Reimagining International Environmental Law Authors: Anxhela Mile, Railla Puno, and Alexandra Horn Journal: Environmental Law (Vol. 55, No. 4) Publication Date: 18 March 2025 The piecemeal creation and formation of international environmental law (IEL) dates to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and continues today. In 2018, the UN …