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 (...)

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Le fonds documentaire de l’IRASEC compte environ 2 950 documents sur l’Asie du Sud-Est. La politique d’achat d’ouvrages s’articule autour de trois critères : Le contemporain dans les différents champs disciplinaires développés par l’IRASEC : sciences politiques et sciences économiques, sociologie et anthropologie, histoire contemporaine et géographie. Les publications portant sur les 11 pays de la région. Les thématiques transversales liées au Sud-Est asiatique et correspondant aux axes scientifiques (...)

ASEAN’s Positioning in a multipolar Indo-Pacific
Joefe B. SANTARITA, Asian Center, University of the Philippines
In Indo-Pacific and regional context, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) finds itself in a strategic vantage point relative to the United States, China, and other middle powers due to its nonthreatening posture and its capacity to perambulate through the “hierarchical” nature of global affairs. As a follow up to the Singapore based think tank’s commentary, this (...)

The Indo-Pacific : An Opportunity for Vietnam
Claire Thị Liên TRẦN, Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), Bangkok
This paper shows how the Indo-Pacific strategy has become a major issue of the Vietnamese foreign policy. More than ever, Vietnam seeks multilateralism to manage its necessary political and economic partnership with the neighbouring China and its military pressure in the South China Sea. This paper highlights the opportunities for Vietnam’s economic, (...)

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Session 3 / The Indo-Pacific from Southeast Asian Perspectives : Centrality and Multilateralism in Uncertain Times
Chair : Dr Stéphane DOVERT, Founder of IRASEC
Chair : Prof. Suthiphand CHIRATHIVAT, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok)
The Indo-Pacific considered as a maritime “super-region” acknowledge the fact that the Indian Ocean has replaced the Atlantic as the globe’s busiest and most strategically significant trade corridor, whose geographical center in Southeast Asia. (...)

Thai policy face to US/China competition and possible confrontation
Panitan WATTANAYAGORN, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
This presentation argues that, on the one hand “ASEAN Centrality” has been an important element in Thailand’s national security strategy and foreign policy. The concept has not only been highlighted in the current official documents, but also implemented by the Thai governments in practice for the past decades. Recent research also (...)

ASEAN’s perspectives in Asia-Africa Growth Corridor Partnership
TRAN Thi Anh-Dao, University of Rouen (France) & Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Thailand)
Since the 2008 global crisis, the weight of South-South exports has exceeded that of South-North exports : in 2018, 57.6% of total exports from developing countries (here referred to as "the South") were destined for other developing economies. Evidence does seem to show a new geography of international (...)

How Can ASEAN Navigate Through Geopolitical Rivalries
Chheang VANNARITH, Asian Vision Institute and Invest in Cambodia
The evolving US-China power rivalry causes significant threats to regional peace and stability and put constraints on the foreign policy options for the small states. Maintain agency is the matter of survival for small states. ASEAN is widely perceived as the shield to protect the interests of small states and middle powers in Southeast Asia. By exercising collective (...)

Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific : some general observations
Shafiah F. MUHIBAT, Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific : some general observations
Great power politics has been a persistent feature of history and there are differences with regard to how countries view the regional order, including how Southeast Asian countries view “Indo-Pacific.” There are various interpretations on the meaning and and what the concept entails have been put forth by various countries/regions. There is the (...)