Southeast Asia is the most diverse sub-region of the Indo-Pacific, encompassing more than 650 Million people (roughly 50% more than the EU), spread across 11 counties of wildly different sizes, populations, and levels of GDP.
There are also at least a dozen major languages widely spoken, religions from Buddhism, to Islam, Christianity, and secularism predominate in particular countries and regions, and the political systems represented range from absolute monarchies, to military juntas, Leninist Communist Party regimes, more or less liberal multiparty democracies, wat some have called ‘electoral authoritarian’ systems, and more. We focus on specific countries and issues, as well as on broader dynamics that cut across the region.
