Beyond the Mekong

By The Diplomat

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Episodes: 129

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Delve into Southeast Asian geopolitics with The Diplomat's Luke Hunt and guests who know the region and the issues.

Episode Date
ASEAN's Trade With Europe: The Costs and Trials of Doing Business
Apr 28, 2026
Reevaluating ASEAN’s Economic Outlook Amid the Iran Conflict
Apr 21, 2026
The Iran War, ASEAN and Global Supply Chains
Apr 09, 2026
Myanmar, War, and Federalism: A Conversation With Joe Lo Bianco
Mar 24, 2026
The Iran War: Its Impact on ASEAN and Myanmar
Mar 17, 2026
Solving the Mysteries of Southeast Asia's Prehistory
Feb 10, 2026
Southeast Asia: The Economic Outlook for 2026
Feb 03, 2026
Is Reconciling Cambodia and Thailand Possible?
Oct 13, 2025
Thailand Arrests Australian Journalist Over Malaysian Defamation Charge
Oct 06, 2025
Asian Aviation: A Conversation With Matt Driskill
Sep 29, 2025
Connecting Concepts of Dignity With Transnational Criminal Justice
Sep 05, 2025
Meta, Trump, and Facts: A Conversation With Sushi Das
Aug 29, 2025
Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening
Aug 26, 2025
‘Conflicted’: A British Doctor’s Work in a Khmer Rouge Refugee Camp
Aug 19, 2025
The Clearing: Documenting Mother Nature in Cambodia
Jul 31, 2025
EU Report Urges a Much Tougher Stance on Transnational Repression
Jul 29, 2025
Finding Truth Where Justice Is Rare
Jul 22, 2025
Myanmar’s ‘Frontline Poets’: An Interview With Joe Freeman
Jul 16, 2025
Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening
May 25, 2025
Mae Sot’s Emergence as a Cheap Refugee Labor Hub
May 15, 2025
Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Trumpian Worldview
May 12, 2025
Thailand, Uyghurs, and a Shifting Foreign Policy Toward China
Apr 22, 2025
FULRO and ‘A War of Their Own’ in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Apr 14, 2025
Making ‘Loot,’ a Film About Cambodian Crimes and Redemption
Apr 02, 2025
Myanmar as a ‘Failed State’: A Political Scientist’s View
Mar 24, 2025
Eroding Electoral Integrity in Southeast Asia
Mar 10, 2025
Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening
Mar 03, 2025
Leaving Cambodia: A Conversation With Gerald Flynn
Feb 11, 2025
Trump’s Sudden Impact and Implications For Southeast Asia
Feb 04, 2025
Pol Pot’s March Into Phnom Penh, 50 Years On
Jan 16, 2025
Listening to the Geography of the Moon
Dec 31, 2024
When Hollywood Comes to Cambodia, with Nick Ray
Dec 23, 2024
Myanmar and China: An American View with Michael Martin
Dec 11, 2024
Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening
Nov 21, 2024
Keith Richburg Discusses Trump 2.0, China, and ASEAN
Nov 13, 2024
Melody Mociulski on Taking Myanmar’s ‘Intrepid Paths’
Nov 07, 2024
Talking ASEAN Supply Chains With Chris Catto-Smith
Oct 30, 2024
Inside Myanmar with Jason Tower of the USIP
Sep 30, 2024
Malaysia’s 1MDB Scandal and ‘The Siege Within’
Sep 24, 2024
Am and Steve Sandford: Witness to a Myanmar Genocide
Sep 14, 2024
Sean Turnell on Myanmar, Civil War, and Economic Reform
Aug 30, 2024
Nic Dunlop on the Importance of Photography
Aug 26, 2024
Prosecuting War Crimes in Myanmar and Ukraine
Jul 19, 2024
Myanmar’s Civil War: A View from Washington
Jul 05, 2024
Dealing With Myanmar’s IDPs: A Conversation With John Murray
Jun 23, 2024
Thailand and Myanmar’s Road Ahead: A Chat with Pichai Chuensuksawadi
Jun 11, 2024
An End to Myanmar’s Civil War? A Conversation With Paul Greening
May 31, 2024
Trafficked and Desperate: A Conversation With Judah Tana
May 27, 2024
World in Crisis: A Conversation with Andy Pendleton
May 03, 2024
Rating the Media: A Conversation With David Armstrong
Apr 08, 2024
Editing Cambodian News: A Conversation With Alan Parkhouse
Mar 26, 2024
Cabbages and Condoms: A Conversation With Mechai Viravaidya
Mar 12, 2024
Watching Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Feb 29, 2024
War Crimes and the Meaning of Genocide
Feb 16, 2024
AsiaLIFE and Publishing Hip Magazines in Vietnam
Jan 08, 2024
Human Rights and Protecting Cambodia’s Rainforests
Dec 21, 2023
Making Art and Finding an Edge in Cambodia
Dec 11, 2023
World Music and Good Sports in Southeast Asia
Nov 27, 2023
One Dutchman and 350,000 Cambodian Refugees
Nov 17, 2023
A Cambodian-Born Australian Politician on Repression and Diaspora Politics
Oct 26, 2023
Five Cambodian Elections
Oct 17, 2023
Aboriginal Elder Urges Australians to Vote Yes and Without Guilt
Oct 10, 2023
Surviving the Refugee Boats and Building a Vietnamese Museum in Australia
Sep 25, 2023
An Illustrious Photographer on Warzones and Hollywood
Sep 18, 2023
Myanmar’s Revolution and the Challenges Ahead
Aug 31, 2023
Assessing Cambodia’s New Political Leadership
Aug 22, 2023
From Cambodia’s Killing Fields to the US Secret Service
Jun 30, 2023
Rescuing the Trafficked in Southeast Asia
Feb 27, 2023
Locking Horns With the Khmer Rouge
Jan 09, 2023
Rebuilding Cambodia and Leaving
Dec 14, 2022
Screaming for Mercy, All Along the Mekong
Dec 08, 2022
Three Southeast Asian Summits in a Redefined World
Dec 01, 2022
Taking Down the Tatmadaw
Oct 31, 2022
Getting Into ASEAN is ‘Harder Than Getting Into Heaven’
Sep 09, 2022
Sri Lanka’s Future May Not Be All That Bleak
Jul 20, 2022
An American Artist Who Stayed Behind in Myanmar
Jul 11, 2022
‘Delikado’: Saving Palawan from the Chainsaws
May 30, 2022
The Path to Militancy and Terrorism
May 23, 2022
Sizing-up the US-ASEAN Summit and Vietnam’s Place in the World
May 18, 2022
Troubled Waters in the Mekong Region
Apr 28, 2022
Of ASEAN, China, Russia, and Hypersonic Weapons
Mar 29, 2022
Fighting Back: Trade Unions in Thailand and Myanmar
Feb 28, 2022
A Perfect Dry: The Mekong River Enters its Fourth Year of Drought
Feb 11, 2022
Making Wine in Asia
Jan 10, 2022
Surviving Saigon in 1945 and a Dog Named Mephisto
Dec 31, 2021
Afghanistan, Then and Now
Nov 13, 2021
Seismic Shifts in Geopolitics and the Challenge for ASEAN
Oct 13, 2021
Indonesia: Dividing the Spoils
Sep 27, 2021
How Washington Sees Southeast Asia and ASEAN
Sep 16, 2021
The Taliban, 9/11 and An American Evacuation
Aug 26, 2021
After 15 Years, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal Nears Its End
Aug 06, 2021
A Foreign Correspondent in Academia
Jul 22, 2021
Southeast Asia’s Difficult Road Ahead
Jun 21, 2021
The Withdrawal from Afghanistan by US and Allied Forces
Jun 09, 2021
The ‘Mafia’ and Civil War in Myanmar
May 17, 2021
Solidarity in Cambodia
Apr 30, 2021
Breathing Fresh Life into Cambodia’s Art Scene
Mar 30, 2021
Southeast Asia’s Emerging Markets, Post-Pandemic
Mar 17, 2021
China’s Latest White Paper and Southeast Asia
Feb 01, 2021
A Conversation With the President of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia
Dec 31, 2020
The Flashpoints of Hun Sen’s Cambodia
Dec 23, 2020
From Phnom Penh With Love
Aug 25, 2020
The Problem With Travel in Southeast Asia and COVID-19
Jun 23, 2020
Saving Indochina’s Wilderness
Jun 17, 2020
Missionaries, Wars, and Rebuilding in Southeast Asia
May 05, 2020
Of Film and Adventure in Mainland Southeast Asia
Mar 18, 2020
A Life Covering Corruption, Conflict, and Contemporary Politics in Southeast Asia
Mar 06, 2020
A Conversation on Hong Kong
Oct 30, 2019
A Conversation on China’s Long Regional Shadow
Oct 18, 2019
A Conversation on the Mekong and a Changing Southeast Asia
Aug 28, 2019
Between Continuity and Change: The Rapidly Changing Security Environment in Southeast Asia
Jul 21, 2019
From Terror to Tranquility: The Quest for a Bali Peace Park in Indonesia
Jul 10, 2019
The Trouble with Tourism in Southeast Asia
Jun 15, 2019
The Future of Indonesia, ASEAN, and the Digital Age in Southeast Asia
May 31, 2019
What Lies Ahead for Indonesia in a Jokowi Second Term?
May 03, 2019
The Future of a ‘New Malaysia’
Apr 19, 2019
Remembering the Ancient Empire Legacy of Southeast Asia
Mar 23, 2019
How Anand Panyarachun Shaped Modern Thailand
Feb 16, 2019
Remembering Heng Samrin and Cambodia’s Rebirth
Feb 01, 2019
Inside Thailand’s Miracle Cave Rescue
Jan 03, 2019
Remembering One of Southeast Asia’s Legendary Foreign Correspondents
May 15, 2018
The View From Asia’s Largest Catholic News Agency
Nov 17, 2017
Cambodia: Past, Present, and Future
Aug 09, 2017
The History and Future of Southeast Asia
May 13, 2017
A Friend of the Dead: Finding Justice in Cambodia
Jul 01, 2016
Cross Culture: Indonesian Dance Troupe Evolves Out of Australia’s Suburbs
Jun 26, 2016
Taking off: The Cambodian Space Project
Jan 08, 2016
Pol Pot’s Surviving Lieutenants Held to Account
Oct 08, 2015
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Jul 02, 2015