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 Senior Research Fellow Dr. Mohammad Hazrati has co-authored a chapter titled “Examining Accountability for Energy Activities in the EU, France, and Germany: An Energy Justice Perspective,” published by University of Groningen Press in the edited volume Sustainable Energy: Still United in Diversity? Integrating Energy, Climate, and Environmental Law in Times of Geopolitical Instability. The …
Sakda SAU Sorbonne Institute for Research in International and European Law (IREDIES) Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University This paper analyses the ASEAN Banking Integration Framework (ABIF) against the rapid digitisation of finance which threatens to render the need for physical branches obsolete. It argues that instead of relying solely on de jure …
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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Ahead of the ASEAN Summit this week, CIL ASEAN Law and Policy Co-Head, Associate Professor Tan Hsien-Li has a new blog post with NYU’s US-Asia Law Institute’s Perspectives – “Doubling Down on Rules-Based Trade: A Strategic Imperative for ASEAN”. Despite the US’ withdrawal from multilateralism, ASEAN has a vital opportunity (alongside other smaller powers) to …
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