COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Public health, social impacts, and political attitudes

How is the COVID-19 pandemic transforming attitudes in Southeast Asia? While the health impacts of the pandemic are tragically obvious, we are only beginning to understand the wider social and political implications of the crisis. Some changes are being introduced from the top, as governments embark on ambitious new programs of social spending and, at least in some cases, claw back on citizens' rights. But others are potentially occurring among citizens, as the responses to the pandemic affect ordinary people's attitudes about their own security, the role of government in their lives, and their country's political system. In order to…