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Southeast Asia’s Instability Is No Longer Peripheral

Renewed tensions between Thailand and Cambodia, combined with Thailand’s internal political uncertainty, signal a broader regional fragility that often gets underestimated. Southeast Asia is frequently described as “strategically important but politically stable.” That description is aging poorly. Domestic legitimacy crises, military influence, and unresolved border disputes continue to intersect in ways that make sudden escalation more likely. What makes this dangerous is not any single conflict, but the absence of reliable crisis-management mechanisms. Regional institutions are cautious. External powers are selective. Local politics fills the gap. Instability doesn’t need to explode to matter. It only needs to persist. #SoutheastAsia #RegionalSecurity #Geopolitics #ASEAN