Hunter Marston (@hmarston.bsky.social)
@hmarston4
PhD @ANUBellSchool. Hedging, SE Asia, great power competition, #Myanmar. Adjunct Research Fellow @latrobeasia. Ultra runner
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My review of Aaron Connelly & Dr. Shona Loong's excellent book, 'New Answers to Old Questions: #Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’État', is now available Contemporary Southeast Asia. You can read the full review here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/70/article…
#Singapore's GE is more than a test of PM Lawrence Wong's & PAP's 4G leadership's popularity. New candidates & patterns of voter engagement will shape PAP & opposition. Bridget Welsh speaks with Dr Elvin Ong Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4iBX5Jd Spotify: spoti.fi/432bUA5
So just to recap: Trump leaned on Ukraine to give up territory, dashed its NATO aspirations, temporarily cut off vital military and intelligence support, shook them down for a minerals deal they didn’t want, & now is threatening to withdraw from the negotiations. Absolute madness
"Do you buy American F-35s or Chinese BYD electric cars? That's no longer just an economic choice; it's a geopolitical signal." Great writing by David Hutt Nikkei Asia: asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Southe…
Our introduction on Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific is now out! Individual papers are already online and will find a collective home in the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Special Issue co-edited with Ralf Emmers later this year. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"The time for non-alignment has undoubtedly passed, but the time for coalitions of action has come, and requires that countries capable of acting together give themselves every means to do so.” Macron talking past SE Asia but may appeal to US policymakers: courthousenews.com/macron-courts-…
The main issue with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue is that the Trump administration is hyping a China threat that most of SE Asia does not share in common with the 🇺🇸. Pushing allies & partners to do more will fail given this divergence in threat perceptions. #SLD25
“If we have to choose sides, may we choose the side of principles...that uphold a global order, where we do not descend into the law of the jungle...” 🇸🇬 MinDef Chan Chun Sing revealing #Singapore's anxieties re: increasingly zero-sum 🇺🇸-🇨🇳 rivalry. bangkokpost.com/world/3039517/…
In my latest Foreign Policy with Lucas Myers, we argue there is an increasingly clear & widening gap between US policy rhetoric & actions, and that is undermining US credibility in Asia: foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/10/heg…
Check out Hunter Marston (@hmarston.bsky.social) and I in Foreign Policy, where we analyze Sec. Hegseth's Shangri-La speech and the admin's Indo-Pacific policy. Is this the presidency for the pivot to finally happen? Spoiler: like the MN Vikings, it's probably not our year. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/10/heg…
Hegseth fails to reassure Asian allies at Shangri-La buff.ly/WF6jyu9 Confrontational rhetoric combined with uncertain commitments raise fears of abandonment in Southeast Asia | by Hunter Marston (@hmarston.bsky.social)
The more that the United States overlooks Southeast Asian viewpoints and preferences, the more that it will see its influence and relevance in the Indo-Pacific wane as China’s waxes, Hunter Marston (@hmarston.bsky.social) and Lucas Myers argue. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/10/heg…
I’m immensely proud to have worked with such a talented team at Frontier and I’ll sorely miss it. However, I’m thrilled to be handing over the reins to someone as accomplished as Thu Thu Aung. She’ll have great colleagues to work with and I can’t wait to see what they produce.