Launched in 1992, ""Regional Outlook"" is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, ""Regional Outlook"" aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region, and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.
Regional Outlook: Southeast Asia 2008-2009 Preliminary pages; POLITICAL OUTLOOK; THEMATIC ESSAYS: Southeast Asian Security: An Overview; ASEAN at Forty: Perception and Reality; China's Relation with Southeast Asia; India's Growing Profile in Southeast Asia by Daljit Singh, Tommy Koh Thong Bee, I an Storey and Vijay Sakhuja; POLITICAL OUTLOOK; The ASEAN-10 by Pushpa Thambipillai, Milton Osborne, Leonard C Sebastian, Martin Stuart-Fox, Tin Maung Maung Than, Lorraine Carlos Salazar, Terence Chong, Nirmal Ghosh, David Koh Wee Hock and Ooi Kee Beng; ECONOMIC OUTLOOK; THEMATIC ESSAYS: Regional Economic Trends; Regional Economic Integration and the ASEAN Charter; Energy and the Environment; Evolving Regional Financial Architecture in East Asia; The GMS Economic Corridors by Sanchita Basu Das, Denis Hew Wei-Yen, Rodolfo C Severino, J Oerstroem Moeller, Masahiro Kawai and Carolina S Guina; ECONOMIC OUTLOOK; The ASEAN-10 by Lee Poh Onn, Jayant Menon, Aris Ananta, Kyophilavong Phouphet, Kwek Kian Teng, Mya Than, Aladdin D Rillo, Chua Hak Bin, Supavud Saicheua and Nick J Freeman.
