Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 42. March 1, 2026
https://kyotoreview.org/

Special feature “Non-traditional security challenges in Southeast Asia,” edited by Mark S. Cogan, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan, includes five articles. Full texts are available on our website in eight languages: English, Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Burmese, Khmer, and Japanese. We also include five book reviews, as well as the monthly column “Trendsetters,” in English.

Contents

Special feature “Non-traditional security challenges in Southeast Asia”
Guest Editor: Mark S. Cogan

The Challenges of Addressing Myanmar’s Post-2021 Security Challenges
Moe Thuzar

Glorifying Terrorism, Ignoring Religious Intolerance
Sumanto Al Qurtuby

Mass Remigration as a Non-Traditional Threat in Cambodia
David Hutt

Thailand’s Anti-scam Efforts are well behind the Pace of Criminality
Mark S. Cogan

Climate Action in Southeast Asia: Responses from ASEAN and the Philippines
Virgemarie A. Salazar

Book Reviews

Leo Suryadinata. Indonesia’s Foreign Policy under Suharto: Aspiring to Indonesian Leadership. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022
Vibhanshu Shekhar

Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, & Michael B. Dwyer (eds.). Turning land into capital: Development and dispossession in the Mekong Region. University of Washington Press, 2022.
Paul Rabé

Joe Freeman, & Aung Naing Soe. Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar’s Military. River Books, 2025.
Benjamin Zawacki

Robert W. Norris. The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me. Manchester: Tin Gate, 2023.
Mark S. Cogan

Netina Tan & Meredith L. Weiss (eds.). Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in Myanmar. Madison, SEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024.
Hilary Faxon & Tin Mar Oo

Trendsetters

The Indian Diaspora’s Political Awakening in Thailand
Prem Singh Gill