Nom officiel : république démocratique de Timor-Leste (RDTL)
Capitale : Dili
Superficie terrestre : 14 870 km²
Population (statistiques de Timor-Leste, recensement 2022) : 1 341 737 hab.
Langues officielles : tetum et portugais, plus deux langues de travail reconnues par la Constitution : indonésien et anglais

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 , (...)

Nom officiel : République socialiste du Viêtnam
Capitale : Hanoï (en vietnamien Hà Nội)
Superficie terrestre : 331 070 km²
Population totale en 2024 (sources : Banque mondiale et Nations unies) : 99,6 millions d’habitants (38 % urbains et 62 % ruraux)

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 (...)

Les données statistiques qui suivent sont prises à notre publication annuelle L’Asie du Sud-Est. Bilan, enjeux et perspectives. Elles sont actualisées chaque année.

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 (...)

L’IRASEC met à disposition de tous une sélection de cartes en français relatives à l’Asie du Sud-Est.
Ces cartes sont libres de droit et modifiables au gré de vos besoins (format pdf éditable) d’étudiant, de chercheur, ou de simple néophyte. Profitez-en, sans oublier de créditer l’IRASEC.
Cette sélection est amenée à s’étoffer progressivement avec des mises à jour et d’autres cartes thématiques.
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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 (...)