Dr Christine Cabasset (IRASEC Associate Researcher) and Dr Benjamim Corte-Real (INL-University of Timor-Leste) organised an international seminar on "Strengthening Asean and Regional Governance" on 11 December 2013 in Dili. Three sessions were successively held on the themes "Politics and Security", "Asean and Regional Security", "Social-Economic Issues" (details in pdf document).
The seminar was hosted by the Secretary of State for Asean Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of (...)

Bruno Jetin has joined the “French-Indonesian Academic Cooperation Meeting” at the invitation of the French Institute in Indonesia of the French Embassy in Indonesia which was held on October 10-11 in Surabaya. This meeting has gathered several hundreds of representatives of universities and research institutes from France and Indonesia. Bruno Jetin has been part of the round table dedicated to economics, law and management. It has been an opportunity to present IRASEC and the resources it (...)

Jérémy Jammes has attended CCSEAS (Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies) symposium, chaired by Prof. Dominique Caouette (CETASE), which was held from 17 to 19 October 2013 at the Carrefour des Arts and Sciences at the University of Montreal among over 120 participants from Canada, South-East Asia, United States and Europe (https://www.casa-acea.ca/++cs_INTERRO++page_id=6). The topic of this year was : “Multiple encounters, shifting spaces : Southeast Asia at the crossroads”. J. Jammes notably opened (...)

A conference about Catching up Southeast Asian New Body : States, Markets and Public Spheres, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University), the Nottingham University (Malaysian Campus) and IRASEC, was held on the 25-29th of September 2013 at the Cape Panwa Hotel in Phuket.
IRASEC organized a panel titled “Regional integration in Southeast Asia and socio-cultural bodies.” Natalie Fau (IRASEC researcher in (...)

From September 30th 2013 onward, the IRASEC’s offices will be located in the brand new Alliance Française building, on the 4th floor.
The IRASEC team will be ready to welcome you starting October 1st 2013.
Our new address is :
IRASEC
179 Thanon Witthayu
Lumphini, Pathum Wan
Bangkok 10330
Thailand
Our new phone numbers are :
Phone +66 (0) 26 70 42 91
Fax +66 (0) 26 70 42 (...)

Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today’s Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)