Security and Regional Integration

REFSA's upcoming (online) Geopolitics Public Lecture themed “Feminist Foreign Policy in a World of Crisis - a Special Lecture by Dr. Hoo Chiew Ping” aims to explore and understand the development of feminist foreign policy in the West- and non-Western societies, and whether Malaysia and Southeast Asia can benefit from such a perspective and approach.

A public lecture which intends to further the conversation by exploring the key policy options and dilemmas facing Southeast Asian countries amid growing uncertainty, with a particular attention on how and why many regional countries have insisted to pursue a “hedging” policy (as opposed to “balancing” or “bandwagoning” strategies) vis-à-vis the competing powers.

Research for Social Advancement (REFSA), a progressive think tank based in Kuala Lumpur, with the support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Asia, convened a diverse group of policymakers, academics and thought leaders from across Asia-Pacific for a two-day roundtable in Kuala Lumpur. , with the main aim to explore the global order of today and tomorrow and deliberate and discuss the implications of the US-China rivalry for ASEAN, regional tensions in the South China Sea, and the way forward to manage disruption.