Evan Laksmana
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- Apr 7
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Dr. Evan A. Laksmana is the Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow and Editor of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he leads the Institute's Southeast Asian Security and Defence research programme. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta.
Over his career, Evan has held research and visiting positions at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, the Lowy Institute, the National Bureau of Asian Research, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Carnegie China, and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in journals including Asian Security, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and Defence Studies, and he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a Fulbright Presidential Scholar.
Follow Evan's analysis for authoritative, ground-level insight on Indonesia's defence and security — one of the few Indonesian scholars whose work is read equally in Jakarta, Singapore, Washington, and London.
Research & Commentary
Evan writes across leading academic journals and major international policy platforms, covering Indonesia's defence policy, civil-military relations, Southeast Asian security, and the strategic implications of great power competition in the region. Below is a selection of his notable work.
Simulating Southeast Asia’s Nuclear-security Crisis Responses
IISS Research Paper • 12 March 2026
Building Blocks: Enhancing Southeast Asia’s Crisis-response Architecture
IISS Research Paper • 4 March 2026
Contingent Capabilities: Southeast Asia’s Emerging Anti-access Environment
IISS Research Paper • 26 February 2026
The complex fault lines of the Thai–Cambodian armed conflict
IISS Online Analysis • 13 August 2025
Active Alignment: How Indonesia Can Shape the U.S.-China Strategic Competition
Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs • November 2025
Joint military exercises and security ordering in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Security Policy Vol. 46, NO. 4, 703–720 • October 2025
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Is Indonesia Sleepwalking into Strategic Alignment with China?
Global Politics and Strategy Vol. 67, 61-67 • 7 February 2025
Concerted Autonomy: Defence-industrial Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific
Strategic Dossiers, Vol. 3, 14-45 • 29 April 2025
Retail path-dependence: Indonesia's post-authoritarian defence planning
Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers: Rethinking Force Development in an Age of Disruption • August 2024
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The view from Jakarta: Friends with benefits, not fellow fighters
Informit • 1 June 2024
Scripted Order: Combined-Military Exercises In The Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2024 • 31 May 2024
The underwhelming defence ties between Indonesia and China
IISS Online Analysis • 3 May 2024
South Korea’s defence relations in Southeast Asia
IISS Online Analysis • 29 September 2023
Embracing the different ways Indonesia andAustralia view the region
The Interpreter, Lowy Institute • 20 April 2023
The Sierra Madre stand-off: What can the Philippines do against China?
The Strait Times • 21 August 2023
Introduction: Partnership or Polarization? Southeast Asian Security between India and China
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Vol. 45, No. 2 • August 2023
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants
International Affairs, Vol. 99, 1371–1381 • 4 July 2023
Fit for Purpose: Can Southeast Asian Minilateralism Deter?
Asia Policy, National Bureau of Asian Research, Vol. 17, No. 4 • October 2022
Remodelling Indonesia’s Maritime Law Enforcement Architecture
Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 44, No. 1, 122-149 • 2022
India-Australia-Indonesia Maritime Partnership: Shared Challenges, Compelling Opportunities
Observer Research Foundation • 2022
Jakarta gets ‘grey-zoned’ by Beijing
East Asia Forum • 30 August 2022
China making inroads with grey zone tactics against Indonesia
The Strait Times • 15 July 2022
Hatta and Indonesia’s Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies • 4 July 2022
Not all maritime disputes are built the same
The Interpreter, Lowy Institute • 25 April 2022
Stuck in Second Gear: Indonesia's Strategic Dilemma in the Indo Pacific
ISEAS Perspective • 2021
Charting Their Own Course: How Indonesians Sees the World
Lowy Institute • 2021
Fracturing architecture? The Quad Plus and ASEAN centrality in the Indo-Pacific
Routledge • 2021
The South China Sea: Realities and Responses in Southeast Asia
Asia Society Policy Institute • 2021
Stuck in Second Gear: Indonesia’s Strategic Dilemma in the Indo-Pacific
Perspective, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute • 28 December 2021
Indonesia is in denial over China's maritime grey zone tactics
The Straits Times • 14 December 2021
Why there are no grand alliances in Asia
East Asia Forum • 28 November 2021
AUKUS mixed reception a symptom of strategic fault-lines in Southeast Asia
East Asia Forum • 17 October 2021
Indonesia Unprepared as Great Powers Clash in Indo Pacific
Foreign Policy • 26 August 2021
ASEAN’s Future Will Be Decided in Myanmar
Foreign Policy • 21 June 2021
Is Indonesia’s Military Eyeing the Republic?
New York Times • 11 April 2019
Indonesia and Anti-Access Warfare: Preliminary Policy Thoughts
The Indonesian Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4, 303-321 • 9 March 2021
Advancing the US–Indonesia defence relationship
East Asia Forum • 19 January 2021
Australia's strategic appetite should take more account of Indonesia
East Asia Forum • 19 July 2020
Why Indonesia won’t let Beijing forget the Philippines’ South China Sea arbitration win
South China Morning Post • 2 June 2020
Beijing’s dubious claims undermine Indonesia’s role as South China Sea’s honest broker
South China Morning Post • 20 January 2020
Indonesia needs new strategy to deal with China
The Jakarta Post • 8 January 2020
Indonesia as "Global Maritime Fulcrum": A Post Mortem Analysis
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative • 8 November 2019
Indonesia, China, and the Natuna Linchpin
The Diplomat • 1 March 2020
Pandemic policing lessons from India
The Jakarta Post • 29 April 2020
Why the COVID-19 pandemic was a 'strategic surprise' for Indonesia
The Jakarta Post • 13 April 2020
Indonesia needs new strategy to deal with China
The Jakarta Post • 8 January 2020
How do we know a successful defense minister when we see one?
The Jakarta Post • 19 November 2019
Indonesia as “Global Maritime Fulcrum”: A Post-Mortem Analysis
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiatives • 8 November 2019
Prabowo’s Uphill Tasks as Indonesia’s New Defense Minister
The Diplomat • 31 October 2019
Jokowi offers Prabowo a piece of the pie
Foreign Policy • 31 October 2019
Is Indonesia heading toward a 'militerized democracy'?
The Jakarta Post • 21 March 2019
Military personnel problems need more than quick fixes
The Jakarta Post • 1 February 2019
Why Indonesia’s New Natuna Base Is Not about Deterring China
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative • 25 January 2019
Indonesia foreign policy needs to focus more on impact than process
The Jakarta Post • 15 December 2018
Are military assistance programs important for US–Indonesia ties?
East Asia Forum • 18 April 2018
Is an Indonesian Air Defense Identification Zone forthcoming?
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative • 10 April 2018
Why do retired officers run for local office?
The Jakarta Post • 15 March 2018
Promises and pitfalls of Indonesia's faith in multilateralism
The Jakarta Post • 1 February 2018
Indonesia–US relations: sweating the small stuff
The Interpreter, Lowy Institute • 29 January 2018
Can Hadi Tjahjanyo juggle competing forces?
The Jakarta Post • 14 December 2017
Indonesia has a stake in Australia’s Lombrum plans too
The Interpreter, Lowy Institute • 7 December 2018
Why ASEAN needs 'decentralize' regionalism
The Jakarta Post • 13 November 2017
Timor-Leste, Australia and Asia's contested maritime order
The Jakarta Post • 22 September 2017
Foreign policy implications of Jakarta's election
The Jakarta Post • 7 June 2017
After 50th birthday: Boost ASEAN's own security web
The Jakarta Post • 8 August 2017
ASEAN and the mud on the US–China strategic lens
The Strategist, Australian Strategic Policy Institute • 9 May 2017
The (maritime) recalibration of Indonesia–Australia defence relations
The Strategist, Australian Strategic Policy Institute • 24 March 2017
Indonesian Sea Policy: Accelerating Jokowi’s Global Maritime Fulcrum?
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative • 23 March 2017
Should Indonesia and Australia jointly patrol the South China Sea?
The Jakarta Post • 13 March 2017
In Indo-Pacific strategic flux, where is Indonesia?
The Jakarta Post • 27 February 2017
Should Washington rearm Southeast Asia againts China?
The Jakarta Post • 8 February 2017
Indonesia-Australia relations and the perils of success
The Jakarta Post • 30 January 2017
Here’s why Jakarta doesn’t push back when China barges into Indonesian waters
The Washington Post • 28 April 2016
Indonesia’s Modernizing Military: Suharto’s New Order Is Old New
Foreign Affairs • 3 September 2015
A way forward for Indonesia-Australia relations
The Interpreter, Lowy Institute • 28 May 2015
Why there is no ‘new maritime dispute’ between Indonesia and China
The Strategist, Australian Strategic Policy Institute • 4 April 2014
Realism and Non-State Actors Revisited
E-International Relations • 22 January 2013
Sketching out a future ASEAN-NATO partnership
The Jakarta Post • 26 July 2011
The Curious Case of Indonesia’s “Democracy”
Foreign Policy • 7 December 2009
Is Indonesia Really a Democracy?
Foreign Policy • 10 November 2009
Watch & Listen
Follow Evan in conversation as he unpacks Indonesia's defence modernisation, its strategic dilemmas in the Indo-Pacific, and what China's growing regional assertiveness means for Southeast Asian security.
USP Podcast - Ep 23: US-Indonesia Ties Under Trump 2.0 Part II
RSIS NTU • 18 March 2025
Chief of Army Symposium 2025 | The Indo-Pacific Perspective
The Cove - Australian Army • 3 October 2025
Indonesia's Foreign Policy under Prabowo with Evan Laksmana
Southeast Asia Radio • 20 March 2025
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Russia and the Possibilities for ASEAN
What's Happening in Myanmar • 7 March 2025
CIFP 2024 - Sesi C1 Preserving Strategic Autonomy in Indonesia’s Foreign Policy:
Sekretariat FPCI • 4 February 2025
FROM THE SEA Ep11 | ASEAN, China and U.S. Military Exercises in the Region: Drivers and Trends
South China Sea Studies • 21 January 2025
Brownbag 57 with Evan Laksmana
Faculty of Social Science UIII • 6 December 2024
The Jakarta Option: Could Indonesia Ever Be an Ally? | Webinar
The Australia Institute • 16 August 2024
Japan's relationship with ASEAN with Professor Sato Yoichiro, Aaron Connelly and Evan Laksmana
Japan Memo • 19 February 2024
Why Indonesia has switched the location of ASEAN's first-ever joint military drills | The World
ABC News (Australia) • 29 June 2023
Dr. Evan Laksmana dissects 2023 Shangri-La Dialogue | The View from Manila with Richard Heydarian
One News PH • 19 June 2023
What can be done? What is the Role of External Powers in Addressing Democratic Backsliding?
New York Southeast Asia Network • 17 February 2023
Getting Southeast Asia Right, with Elina Noor, Sebastian Strangio, and Evan Laksmana
The Un-Diplomatic Podcast • 17 January 2023
U.S.-China Dynamics in Southeast Asia
A China in the World Podcast • 23 November 2022
[CSA series] Should ASEAN walk away from the South China Sea Code of Conduct process?
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) • 7 June 2022
Charting their own course: How Indonesians see the world
Lowy Institute • 8 April 2022
Outlining the Indo-Pacific Strategies: Shared Limitations amidst Geopolitical Dynamics
CSIS Indonesia • 4 October 2021
At the Locus of Aukus: Indonesia's Alternatives
Reformasi Dispatch • 29 September 2021
Is ASEAN Still Relevant?
The Diplomat • 1 May 2021
US-China Alaska Meeting: Views from Southeast Asia
Eyes on Southeast Asia, FPCI • 17 April 2021
Gerak-Gerik Presiden Biden di Benua Asia!
Podcast Bebas Aktif • 25 January 2021
Wawancara Evan A. Laksmana: Mungkinkan Prabowo Di-reshuffle?
Pinter Politik • 6 October 2020
The Military and Covid-19
Talking Indonesia • 13 August 2020
Maritime Discussion Series | Indonesia's Potential as a Maritime Leader
Pacific Forum • 1 August 2020
Usir Nelayan Cina dari Natuna, Gimana Cara?
Asumsi Bersuara • 7 January 2020
Consent & Conquest: How Western Ways of Warfare Spread to the Indo-Pacific, with Evan Laksmana
Institute for Security Policy and Law • 28 April 2016
Last Updated: 7 April 2026



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