The institutional framework governing the Thai-Cambodian maritime dispute collapsed with Bangkok’s recent withdrawal from MOU 44. Here’s what the new process might look like.

Calls to revoke a 2001 MOU delineating shared borders risk a severe breach in Cambodia–Thailand relations. The ASEAN Cebu summit can help get bilateral relations back on track.

Settling disputes intra-regionally and respecting sovereignty have long stood as the fundamental norms of ASEAN. Phnom Penh has undermined both of them in its ongoing border conflict with Thailand.

This week we examine the growing backlog in US weapon deliveries to Taiwan, the long-term prospects of a recent ceasefire in the Thai-Cambodia border war, and President Trump’s Christmas Day strikes on Islamic State camps in Nigeria.

This week we examine the expanding quantity and range of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian shadow fleet tankers, a US ‘declaration of vengeance’ against ISIS in Syria, and how the Thai-Cambodia conflict reflects a global system in flux.

This week we examine a resumption of hostilities between Thailand and Cambodia, interdictions at sea by the US military in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, a tentative recovery in Canadian exports, and Ukraine dropping its longstanding aspiration for NATO membership to move peace talks ahead.

This week we cover escalating tensions between Japan and China, a timely intervention by President Trump to rescue the Thai-Cambodia peace process, Prime Minister Carney’s latest recommendations for Canada’s major projects drive, and the latest signs of a state capitalist renaissance in the West.

This week we cover how sovereignty concerns are derailing Israel-Syria normalization talks; a proposed referendum that could destabilize the Thai-Cambodia border; new Gen-Z protests in Peru; and a geopolitically consequential election in Moldova.

Recent tensions at the Thailand-Cambodia border serve as a clear warning: the old methods of bilateral talks and empty promises are failing. ASEAN’s core principles—justice, the rule of law, and peaceful dispute resolution—must be supported by practical, enforceable measures.

Recent outbreaks of violence are the natural result of historical territorial disputes, military imbalances, nationalist sentiment, and China’s strategic backing of Cambodia, which together are making the Thailand-Cambodia border one of Southeast Asia’s most volatile geopolitical flashpoints.

Exploring the historical background and key developments in a long-simmering Thailand-Cambodia border dispute that is now pushing the two ASEAN neighbors to the brink of military conflict.

Cambodia’s signing of the High Seas Treaty sends a strong message that ocean conservation is not the exclusive domain of coastal giants.