Consider This: ASEAN Summit: Setting the Stage

As Kuala Lumpur prepares to host world leaders for the ASEAN Summit, all eyes are on how the regional bloc will navigate the confluence of competing powers. Can ASEAN assert its own agenda at this Summit, or is there a risk of it being defined by the interests of others? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Professor Phar Kim Beng, Professor of ASEAN Studies & Director of the Institute of International and ASEAN Studies at IIUM, and Dr Khoo Ying Hooi, Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya’s Department of International and Strategic Studies.