Opening remarks by the three organizers :
Prof. Suthiphand Chirathivat, ASEAN Studies Center, Chulalongkorn University ;
Assoc. Prof. Claire Thi Lien Tran (IRASEC CNRS),
Prof. Prabir De, ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), RIS
• Ms. Usana BERANANDA, Director-General, Department of ASEAN Affairs of Thailand
• H.E Dr Thierry MATHOU, Ambassador of France in Thailand, former Director of the Asia Direction at the French MOFA
• Dr. Mohan KUMAR, Former Ambassador of India in France and Chairman, RIS , (...)

ASEAN and Asian Security in the Age of Pandemics
Amitav ACHARYA (School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C)
This presentation will assess the impact of COVID-19 on US-China competition, China-ASEAN relations, and ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture of Indo-Pacific. While the pandemic has far-reaching effects on Asia, it is too early to assess it long-term effects. The pandemic might accelerate the rise of Asia, but fears of a Chinese hegemony are (...)

Where ‘Act East’ meets Indo-Pacific : Mapping India’s Southeast Asia engagement
Rahul MISHRA, Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Launch in 2014, the ‘Act East’ policy, known as the ‘Look East’ in its previous avatar, aims to comprehensively engage India with the Southeast Asian (and wider Indo-Pacific) region at political, strategic, cultural, connectivity, and people-to-people levels. This paper maps key achievements of the Act East policy and analyses its role in fulfilling (...)

Explaining and Understanding ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific : A Neo-classical Realist Account
Surat HORACHAIKUL, Indian Studies Center and Faculty of Political Science (Chulalongkorn University)
This article employs a lens of neo-classical realism to argue that the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) is the best outcome for what ASEAN’s member states could compromise in the context of BRI led by China and Indo-Pacific led by the United States. To satisfy the title, the article is (...)

IRASEC offers a selection of maps in French relating to Southeast Asia.
These maps are free and can be modified according to your needs (editable pdf format) as a student, researcher or simple neophyte. Take advantage of them, without forgetting to credit IRASEC.
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Map of Burma : image (png) / format pdf
Map of Brunei : image (png) / format pdf
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Session 2 / Southeast Asia between India and China : Reimagining Asia and Regional Indo-Pacific Order
Chair : Prof Surichai WUN’GAEO, Professor Emeritus (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
The Indo-Pacific area with important economic and cultural interactions between the two oceans go back millennia, long before the colonial era. Against tremendous changes in the post-colonial and –Cold War periods, the late 20th century’s debate has been recentered on the Asia-Pacific. And (...)

An Indonesian Perpsective on the Indo-Pacific Centrality and Multilateralism in Uncertime Times
Dewi FORTUNA ANWAR, Research Center for Politics Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Jakarta)
Indonesia has embraced the concept of the Indo-Pacific region, which integrates the Indian and Pacific Oceans into one geostrategic space, with enthusiasm. Propelled by the aspiration to make Indonesia into a global maritime fulcrum on the one hand, and faced with the plethora of initiatives on the (...)

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Strengthening Pluralism in the Indo-Pacific and the Role of the ASEAN
LAU Sim Yee, Faculty of International Studies, Reitaku University (Tokyo)
Indo-Pacific has become a place where 24 allies are dividing themselves with their alleged challenger, China. Containment strategy executed by the US and its allies, humanitarian interventions in failed states, freedom and prosperity expounded by liberal democracy and capitalism, and the Biden’s assertion of the rivalry between US and China as"a (...)

IRASEC’s collection of documents includes approximately 2,950 documents on Southeast Asia. The purchasing policy of books for the documentation section must respect the three following guidelines : Books with an emphasis on contemporary issues, situations and questions in the fields of research developed by IRASEC : political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, contemporary history and geography Publications dealing with the region’s 11 countries Cross-cutting themes related to (...)