L'ouvrage de Marie-Sybille de Vienne, Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century, vient de paraite en anglais chez NUS Press.
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L'Asie du Sud-Est 2015 - Bilan, enjeux et perspectives, sous la direction d'Abigaël Pesses et François Robinne, vient de paraître.
Chaque année l’Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC), basé à Bangkok, analyse les principaux événements politiques, économiques, sociaux, environnementaux ou religieux survenus dans l’ensemble du sous-continent asiatique.
Établissant une rétrospective des faits majeurs de l’année 2014, ce livre aide à mieux comprendre les grands enjeux (...)
L'ouvrage dirigé par Frédéric Fortunel et Christophe Gironde vient de paraitre et est disponible en téléchargement gratuit.
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Les hauts-plateaux méridionaux du Viêt Nam et du Cambodge connaissent depuis le milieu des années 2000 une forte augmentation des superficies plantées en hévéa. Les booms de l’hévéaculture diffèrent significativement de part et d’autre de la frontière, mais ils sont également étroitement liés dans le contexte d’une intégration régionale des (...)
A book by Danielle Tan and Caroline Grillot has just been published.
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Between fascination and fear, enthusiasm and hostility, the new Chinese migration raises questions. The work on "China in Africa" has obscured the importance of China’s emergence for its closest neighbours. This omission is particularly glaring in the case of Southeast Asia, which has always been the main arena for China’s trade engagements with the world. Considered as China’s (...)
A new book resulting from an IRASEC research programme has just been published : Atlas de l’Asie du Sud-Est, Les enjeux de la croissance, by Hugues Tertrais.
With 80 maps and infographics, this Atlas is a key to a better understanding of one of the regions where the stakes of growth and the balance of the planet are at stake today.
At the beginning of the 21st century, when the economic centre of the world has shifted to Asia, Southeast Asia has become a vital crossroads.
This Atlas, with (...)
A new book by Jérémy Jammes has been published by Les Indes Savantes : Les Oracles du Cao Ðài - Étude d’un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux (foreword by Georges Condominas), 614 pages.
ISBN : 978-2-84654-351-4 (36 €)
Caodaism has long attracted a range of sometimes pejorative labels, such as “Secret Society”, “politico-religious cult” and “Vietnamese syncretism”, which give a distorted picture of the religious movement and its identity. Caodaism has proved permeable to western (...)
Located on the edge of the Asia-Pacific, Timor-Leste is known for having been the scene of one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century : the "Timorese genocide" of 1999 precipitated its independence in 2002, after 24 years of Indonesian annexation. Frequently described as "the poorest country in Asia", Timor-Leste has an oil fund of 15 billion dollars, and in 2011 it even proposed to buy back part of the Portuguese debt.
Analysing in turn the history, the socio-cultural (...)
