On the sidelines of the ongoing 2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok, CPG Director Henning Glaser delivered a high-level geopolitical briefing to senior representatives of KfW Group, Germany’s national promotional... On Monday, September 28, CPG Director Henning Glaser had the pleasure of joining a small lunch discussion hosted by H.E. Luisa Ragher, Ambassador of the European Union to Thailand, on the occasion of a visit to Bangkok by Dominic Porter, Deputy Managing Director for... CPG Director Henning Glaser welcomed Colonel Jawad Afzal Chaudhary, the new Defence Attaché of the Embassy of Pakistan in Bangkok, to the CPG offices for a courtesy call on September 29. The meeting provided an opportunity to get to know each other following Colonel... 
CPG had the pleasure this morning of hosting a closed-door roundtable at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, on “The South China Sea at a Crossroads: Philippine and Thai Perspectives on International Law, Regional Security and Strategic Competition.” The... 
CPG was pleased to welcome a delegation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. on November 7 for a briefing on the latest developments in Thailand’s sea and land defense strategies and technologies, co-hosted with our partner Dynamic Minds (DM). The session,... 
Today, CPG was represented by Lucas Meier at the seminar “Responding to the Next Cyber Shock: EU–Thailand Conference & Tabletop on Cyber Resilience”, jointly organized by the Office of the National Security Council (ONSC) of Thailand and the Delegation of the... 
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to engage in a very interesting conversation with the Beijing office of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (BDI), the Federation of German Industries, on Germany’s industrial policy vis-à-vis China. 
From August 29–31, 2025, CPG Director Henning Glaser took part in the Thailand Security Dialogue 2025: Peace and Security in a World of Global Disruption, serving as a moderator. The conference, organized by the National Defence Studies Institute (NDSI) of the Royal... 
CPG is pleased to announce that H.E. Kasit Piromya, CPG Senior Research Fellow and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, has been appointed Special Advisor to Mayors for Peace. A long-standing advocate for peace, democracy, and human rights in Southeast Asia... On July 1, 2025, CPG’s Program Manager and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Asia in Review, Lucas Meier, contributed to the July edition of the Geopolitics Today Discussion Series organized by the Asia-Pacific Security Innovation Forum and Center of Excellence (COE). Held... 
Today, CPG’s Peace & Security Center (CPSC), in cooperation with the Faculty of Aerospace and Strategic Studies (FASS) at Air University and the Asian Governance Foundation, hosted a timely and informative webinar titled “Geopolitical Dynamics in South Asia and... 
This afternoon, we had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Tran Tat Hai, Second Secretary in the Political Section of the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok, for an engaging discussion on the latest developments in global and regional politics. Mr. Tran, who recently assumed his... 
CPG Director Henning Glaser’s chapter on Thailand in this year’s edition of “L’Asie du Sud-Est: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives (Southeast Asia: Assessment, Challenges and Perspectives),” the annual French-language publication of the Research Institute on Contemporary... 
CPG extends its sincere congratulations to H.E. Yukihisa Fujita, former Vice Minister of Finance of Japan, esteemed member of the Distinguished Expert Panel of CPG’s Peace & Security Center (CPSC), and member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Governance... 
This afternoon, we had the honor of welcoming a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany to CPG for a background briefing on the evolving security landscape in Asia. The delegation was led by Colonel Ingo Stüer, Division Head... Announcement CPG International Seminar “The Asian Security Order in a Changing World System and Its Implication for Maritime Security” Date: 24 February 2024 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Bangkok Time) Format: On-site (Closed-Door... 
Today, we had the pleasure of meeting Ha Eun Yoon, Program Manager of Foreign and Security Policy, and Jasmin Walda, Program Manager of Digital Policy, at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Seoul for an engaging discussion on geopolitical and security developments in Asia, as... 
On December 16, 2024, we co-hosted the Samaggi Panel Talk on the US Election: Impacts on Europe and Southeast Asia with Samaggi Samagom, the Thailand-United States of America Alumni Association, and the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). The event... 
We’re delighted to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding between CPG and George Mason University (GMU)! This MoU paves the way for collaboration in key areas such as conflict management, mediation, and peace studies. Through this partnership, CPG and GMU’s Peace... Marc Saxer, Managing Director of the Office for Regional Cooperation in Asia, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, gave an interview discussing the impact of Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president on the global order, Southeast Asia and Thailand. The interview was... 