On 3 September 2013, a public discussion and debate was held at Chulalongkorn University on the theme Continuity and Changes in Myanmar. Dr Renaud Egreteau and Mr Larry Jagan first presented their new book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, published by NUS Press (Singapore) in cooperation with IRASEC.
Dr Sunait Chutintaranond, Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Dr Jacques Leider, (...)

Le 26 août 2013 à 13h30 a eu lieu au Centre d’économie internationale, faculté d’économie de l’Université Chulalongkorn, la conférence The Ruling Elite of Singapore : Networks of Power and Influence du Dr Michael D. Barr de l’Université de Flinders (Australie), à l’occasion de la sortie prochaine de son livre, en partenariat avec l’IRASEC.
Michael D. Barr a présenté un large panorama de l’élite singapourienne depuis les années 1960 et l’indépendance de la ville-État. L’auteur a également décrit les étapes de (...)

The Center for International Economics, Faculty of Economics Chulalongkorn University and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) are co-organizing a conference on August 26th, 2013, by Dr. Michael Barr.
Since the dramatic General Elections of 2011, Singapore has been engaged in a period of unprecedented political change that has no clear destination, but is just as clearly not finished yet. The modest but unrelenting rise of the political opposition and the parallel (...)

On the occasion of the release of the book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, by Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan, published by the University Press of Singapore, a lunchtime talk will first be organised at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, in the presence of François Robinne, Director of IRASEC. The official launch of the book, accompanied by a seminar with the two authors, will take place at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs in the evening of the same day.
Upcoming (...)