Philippine Senator Maria Josefa “Imee” Marcos-Manotoc has emerged as a tactically disruptive actor in the aftermath of the midterm elections held on 12 May. While her younger brother, President ...

In 1975, Vietnam emerged from a brutal war that by government estimates claimed the lives of 1.1 million soldiers and 2 million civilians. In its aftermath, the Communist Party-led government was ...

Last year New Mandala was pleased to be able to introduce our Emerging Scholar Award, an initiative aimed at promoting the dissemination of outstanding PhD research on Southeast Asia to a global ...

Khánh Linh Lê is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science and the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. Her research examines the dynamics of ...

In 2016, Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman became the first openly transgender woman elected to a national legislature in Asia. Her election received international media attention and was ...

Ryan Gem is a researcher, writer, educator, and advocate for more inclusive and representative democracies. He is currently the Learning & Evaluation Manager at People Powered, a global hub for ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...

Liam Gammon is the editor of New Mandala and Research Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University (ANU), where he also sits on the editorial board of ...

Reform and not clampdowns the way to win voters' trust, writes Scott Rawlinson.

Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He earned his LLM at Yale Law School and attained his PhD from University of Bristol’s School ...

Clive Kessler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Islam and Politics in a Malay State: Kelantan 1838-1969 (Cornell U.P ...

Manjit Bhatia is an Australian research scholar who specialises in the economics and politics of Asia and international political economy. He is also research director of AsiaRisk, an economic and ...