On the 24th of February 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine further deepened global geopolitical divisions. Despite the escalation of the conflict, much of the world, particularly in Africa and Asia, maintains a position of neutrality. This is the case for the majority of Southeast Asian countries, whose regional organization, the ASEAN, was built upon the concept of neutrality. However, a more precise analysis of the positions taken by each country reveals a wide spectrum of neutralities. These neutralities, which have historical and political backgrounds but are also motivated by strategic and economic interests, are flexible to each context and are challenged by the tangible consequences of the war in the region. This note aims to decrypt and explain the forms of neutrality adopted by Southeast Asian countries regarding the war in Ukraine based on a daily monitoring of regional newspapers between the beginning of the war and September 2022.

Geraint Howells, Hans-W Micklitz, Mateja Durovic and André Janssen (Eds)
Bloomsbury Publishing
August 2022, 624 p.
ISBN : 9781509957545

Éric MOTTET and Frédéric LASSERRE contributed to the collective publication "Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region" (AFD Éditions), coordinated by HUYNH Thi Phuong Linh, Stéphane LAGRÉE, Etienne ESPAGNE and Alexis DROGOUL, with the chapter entitled "Social justice and mining exploitation in Lao PDR".

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Numéro accessible à partir du 12 juillet 2022
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Thi Anh-Dao TRAN, chercheuse associée, Élodie MANIA et Arsène RIEBER viennent de publier un article dans la revue Post-Communist Economies.
DOI : 10.1080/14631377.2021.2006483
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Emmanuelle PEYVEL have published an article in Tourist Studies, a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon.
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