Middle-income trap is widely held as an intermediate but durable and pernicious situation when countries are unable to compete against advanced economies (in high technology industries) while facing increased competition from less developed economies (in labor-intensive industries), especially as the latter (in particular China, but other countries as well such as Vietnam) have massively penetrated the global trade economy in the last 15 years. In Malaysia, the term has been used since the (...)

4 March 2015, IFI Yogyakarta : IRASEC (represented by Dr. Jean-Marc de Grave) is organising the study day "Socialisation and specific aspects of school and non-school education" in collaboration with the French Institute of Indonesia (Jakarta and Yogyakarta), the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the Gadjah Mada University. Guest of honour : Alain Pierrot, PU of Education Sciences at Paris (...)

Centre for European Studies (CES) at Chulalongkorn University and The Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organize a public lecture and panel discussion on the topic “Did Europe Really Colonize Southeast Asia?” by Dr. Jean-Louis Margolin, Senior lecturer, Aix-Marseille University and research fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies (Marseilles), on Thursday September 18th, 2014, from 13.00 to 16.00 hrs. at Room 105, Mahachulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University, (...)

François Robinne represented IRASEC at the International Burma Studies Conference held from 1 to 3 August 2014 in Singapore. Entitled "International Burma Studies conference 2014. Envisioning Myanmar : Issues, Images, Identities", this conference which gathered 40 panels was co-organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), the National University of Singapore (NUS) : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Centre for Asian Legal Studies.
During this conference, he also met (...)

Vanina Bouté went to Singapore to participate in the yearly Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, "AAS-in-Asia ; Asia in Motion : Heritage and Transformation", which was held from the 17th to the 19th of July 2014 at the National University of Singapore.
She spoke in the Panel "Emerging Networks of Power in the Southeast Asian Uplands" and presented a paper titled "Emergence of Local Entrepreneurs in New Urban Centres of Northern Laos" on July (...)

Bruno Jetin has been invited by the GERPISA-International Network to join the 22nd international colloquium “Old and New Spaces of the Automobile Industry. Towards a New Balance” hosted by the Faculty of Economics of Kyoto University, Japan, 3-6 June 2014. He presented a contribution on “the Automobile Demand after the Great Recession”.

Bruno Jetin has been invited to join the Symposium dedicated to ASEAN in a Global Context, on June 2nd 2014. He has discussed four contributions presented by PhD students of the “Southeast Asian Studies Programme” in a panel dedicated to “Cross-border and Regional Cooperation”.
Complete programme (PDF)

François Robinne, directeur de l’IRASEC, a participé, en tant que chercheur invité, à la conférence internationale Ethnicity, Asia-Pacific and French Scholarship qui s’est déroulée à Kuala Lumpur les 23, 24 et 25 april 2014. Le titre de son intervention était « Nation-State versus Ethnic-State in Southeast-Asia ».
Cette conférence est le fruit d’un partenariat entre l’Institut of Ethnic Studies, l’Ambassade de France en Malaisie et le Malaysia France University Centre.
Coordonné par Eric Olmedo, senior (...)

Un débat animé par Arnaud Dubus, journaliste (RFI), Bruno Jetin, chercheur (IRASEC), Ukrist Pathmanand, professeur chercheur (Université Chulalongkorn), Stephff, caricaturiste (The Nation), Voranai Vanijaka, rédacteur en chef (GQ Magazine), suivi d’un dialogue avec la salle.
Traduction simultanée en trois langues : anglais, français, thaïlandais.
Press clippings announcing the event.
Cet événement est organisé en partenariat avec le service de coopération et d’action culturelle de l’Ambassade de (...)