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Southeast Asia Between the Two Powers
Speaker:
Joseph Chin Yong Liow, Professor & Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Joseph is a prolific scholar with broad interests. He has written about trends and patterns of geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Asia-Pacific region, and has a keen interest in Muslim societies, and specifically, how various Muslim communities approach issues of politics and social mobilization through the lens of their respective understandings of their faith. He serves as Singapore's representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum Expert and Eminent Persons Group and the Trilateral Commission, he has testified to the US Congress, and served a stint in Washington as the Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution.