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 (...)
par Eugénie Mérieau
Cette étude retrace les différents événements fondateurs du mouvement dit des Chemises rouges, depuis leur création embryonnaire à la veille du coup d’État du 19 septembre 2006 jusqu’à leur écrasante victoire électorale du 3 juillet 2011. Offrant un examen détaillé des actions et des motivations des différentes organisations et groupuscules qui composent les Chemises rouges, l’auteur s’attache à décrypter leur rapport au monde, les relations qui les lient à la personne de Thaksin (...)
Politics & Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
By Dewi Candraningrum
This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known.
The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities (transgenders, gays, (...)
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 (...)
The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia
Edited by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world’s key regions for trafficking of illegal goods. It is home to an international trade in small arms, nuclear smuggling rings, human trafficking, contraband and counterfeit goods, illicit currency and smuggled medicinal drugs. The scope and mechanisms of such trafficking, however, are far from understood. “An (...)
