This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Over the past two weeks, leaders from around the world headed to Southeast Asia for two prominent gatherings—the first trilateral summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...