Dr Frederick Kliem is Adjunct Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Frederick is Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s (KAS) Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific based in Hong Kong SAR, China. Previously, he was Research Fellow and Lecturer at RSIS as well as a regular guest lecturer at Singapore’s military officers’ academy (GKS Command and Staff College) and a freelance Consultant to businesses and civil society organisations.

Frederick’s main research interests are regional integration and multilateralism in as well as the geopolitics of Asia and Europe, regional institutions and order building as well as energy security and the impact of climate change and environmental challenges. He frequently appears on Singaporean as well as international TV, radio and print media as well as on numerous podcasts. The main objective of Frederick’s work is to foster dialogue on eye-level and greater mutual understanding between Europe and Asia.

His latest books are Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific: Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium(London and New York: Routledge, 2022) and The Elgar Companion to ASEAN (together with Dosch, J. eds.; Cheltenham: Edwarrd Elgar Publishing, 2023).

• International Relations and Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
• Multilateralism and Multilateral Orders in Asia and Europe
• International Politics of Energy Security
• Political and Security Implications of Climate Change
• ASEAN, European Union, and ASEAN–EU Relations
• European Politics (EU and Member States)
• Regional Integration and Comparative Regionalism

IDSS Papers

• IP22004 | A German Warship in Asia: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions

  09 February, 2022

• IP22004 | A German Warship in Asia: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions

  18 January, 2022

Policy Reports

• The Geopolitics of the Mekong and A Radical Proposal for ASEAN to Navigate It

  25 November, 2020

• Regionalism and COVID-19: How EU-ASEAN Inter-regionalism Can Strengthen Pandemic Management

  26 August, 2020

• Thailand's ASEAN Chairmanship at Midterm: Three Key Issues to Watch After the 34th ASEAN Summit

  12 September, 2019

RSIS Commentaries

• Europeans in the Indo-Pacific: Getting Diplomacy Right

  16 January, 2023

• 45 Years of EU-ASEAN Relations: A Forward-looking Agenda

  13 December, 2022

• Joining EU, NATO: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

  15 March, 2022

• Shaking Europe Out Of Complacency

  09 March, 2022

• Russia, NATO, and Ukraine: The Return of Spheres of Influence

  07 February, 2022

• Weaponising Migrants: Belarusian Blackmail and Multilateralism

  22 November, 2021

• German Warship in Asia: Berlin's Indo-Pacific Strategy?

  24 August, 2021

• EU’s Pandemic Management: Why More Credit Is Due

  23 June, 2021

• Xinjiang: Problem Ahead for European Industry?

  07 June, 2021

• EU Indo-Pacific Strategy: More than Meets the Eye

  03 May, 2021

• EU-China Sanctions Tussle: Winners and Losers

  08 April, 2021

• Post-Brexit: Enter the Mini-Brexits?

  05 January, 2021

• Germany and Indo-Pacific: Berlin’s ASEAN-Style Regionalism?

  20 November, 2020

• Germany’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Can Berlin Contribute?

  10 September, 2020

• Pandemic Recovery: No Need For US Leadership?

  01 July, 2020

• China-Taiwan Mask Diplomacy: Wooing Southeast Asia?

  08 May, 2020

• EU and ASEAN: In Common Disunity

  27 April, 2020

• Coronabonds: Backdoor to Collective Debt?

  14 April, 2020

• China’s Medical Diplomacy: How to Turn a Black Swan White

  03 April, 2020

• Coming End of Merkel's Era: Whither Future European Leadership?

  18 February, 2020

• Vietnam’s ASEAN Chairmanship 2020: What To Expect

  04 February, 2020

• The “Brexit Election”: A View From Europe

  10 December, 2019

• ASEAN–EU Partnership: How “Strategic” is Europe’s Approach?

  05 November, 2019

• The Success of the German Greens: Why It Matters to Asia

  30 September, 2019

• ASEAN’s Indo-Pacific Dilemma: Where To From Here?

  06 August, 2019

• EU’s New Commission Leadership: What It Means For Asia

  22 July, 2019

• Germany in the Indo-Pacific: New Security Actor?

  18 July, 2019

• EU Elections and Democracy: Choosing Leaders Over Dinner

  24 May, 2019

Authored Books

• Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific: Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022
• The Perpetual Promise of ASEAN: A Supply and Demand Analysis of the ASEAN Political Security Community. Germany: Rostock University E-publications, 2016

Journal Articles

• “Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia” in The Pacific Review, 2023
• “The EU Strategy on Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: A Meaningful Regional Complement?” in Panorama: Insights into Asian and European Affairs, 2022
• “ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: Overcoming the Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Realism” in Asia Europe Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2021
• “COVID-19 and International Cooperation: IR Paradigms at Odds” (with Rajesh Basrur) in SN Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Article 7, 2021
• “Why Quasi-Alliances will persist in the Indo-Pacific. The Fall and Rise of the Quad” in Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 7, 3, 2020
• “Asia’s Troubled River: Dam(n)ing or Managing the Mekong?” in Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, 2020
• “Hang Together! The Case for Unity in EU Trade Negotiations with China” in Panorama: Trade and Economic Connectivity in an Age of Uncertainty, 2019, pp. 59-70
• “The Strategic Role of Trade in EU-ASEAN Relations” in Panorama Journal, Insights into Asian and European Affairs, No. 1, 2019
• “Building a Nation, Building a People. Public housing in Singapore as a Holistic, Multi-dimensional Public Policy Construct” in International Reports, Vol. 3, 2018, pp. 1-13
• “ASEAN Imperfect: The Changing Nature of Southeast Asian Regionalism” in Panorama Journal: Insights into Asian and European Affairs, 1, N.A., 2018, 23-33
• “Coercive Water-Diplomacy: Playing Politics with the Mekong” (with Rabea Brauer) in  International Reports, Vol. 3, N.A., 2017. pp. 1-12
• “ASEAN@50: Celebrating Five Decades of Regional Stability” in KAS Country Reports, N.A., N.A., 2017, 1-12
• “The perpetual promise of ASEAN: A supply and demand analysis of the ASEAN Political Security Community” in , , , 2017,

Edited Books / Special Issues

• The Elgar Companion to ASEAN (with Jörn Dosch), Eds. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
• ASEAN Security Connectivity: Regional Solutions to Regional Problems. Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2019

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Regional Security: Legacies and New Challenges” in Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison, and Jörn Dosch (Eds.), The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century. Oxford: Routledge, 2018, N.A.

Op-Eds

• “Finding the Middle-Ground: EU-China Relations”, Hinrich Foundation, 6 December 2022
• “How the Indonesian Chairmanship can revitalise ASEAN”, Jakarta Post, 17 October 2022
• “Should ASEAN Take a Stronger Position on the Ukraine War?”, The Diplomat, 26 August 2022
• “How the EU Can Still Succeed in the Indo-Pacific Despite the War in Ukraine”, The Diplomat, 28 May 2022
• “Europe’s Global Gateway: Complementing or Competing With BRI?”, The Diplomat, 7 December 2021
• “The German Elections and Angela Merkel’s China Legacy”, The Diplomat, 13 October 2021
• “Germany set to toughen China stance under new coalition”, Nikkei Asian Review, 3 October 2021
• “Germany’s supply chain law will further complicate China relations”, Nikkei Asian Review, 15 July 2021
• “As Europe opens up for travel, East Asia should take notes”, South China Morning Post, 11 June 2021
• “Is ASEAN too ‘Far East’ or just right for Global Britain?”, East Asia Forum, 4 June 2021
• “Why German Industry is Looking Past China to the Rest of Asia”, Nikkei Asia, 1 December 2020
• “A China management strategy with ASEAN at its centre”, East Asia Forum, 27 August 2020
• “Leveraging ASEAN to respond to COVID-19”, East Asia Forum, 21 May 2020
• “Realism and the Coronavirus”, E-International Relations, 11 April 2020
• “Punishing Cambodia is going to backfire on EU”, Nikkei Asian Review, 14 February 2020
• “Post-Brexit UK should prioritize Southeast Asia trade deals”, Nikkei Asian Review, 30 January 2020