Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and author of The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.Jeffery Sng is a writer and former diplomat based in Bangkok, co-author of A History of the Thai-Chinese.

"This book contains the best overall summary of ASEAN that this reviewer has seen in 40 years [...] Chapter Four features insightful and analytic “pen sketches” of the 10 ASEAN nations—this chapter alone makes the entire volume worth buying." — Southeast Asian Studies, 7.3

Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and author of The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.Jeffery Sng is a writer and former diplomat based in Bangkok, co-author of A History of the Thai-Chinese.

"This book contains the best overall summary of ASEAN that this reviewer has seen in 40 years [...] Chapter Four features insightful and analytic “pen sketches” of the 10 ASEAN nations—this chapter alone makes the entire volume worth buying." — Southeast Asian Studies, 7.3

Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and author of The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.Jeffery Sng is a writer and former diplomat based in Bangkok, co-author of A History of the Thai-Chinese.

"This book contains the best overall summary of ASEAN that this reviewer has seen in 40 years [...] Chapter Four features insightful and analytic “pen sketches” of the 10 ASEAN nations—this chapter alone makes the entire volume worth buying." — Southeast Asian Studies, 7.3