Indonésie contemporaine
Sous la direction de Rémy Madinier
IRASEC et Les Indes savantes
2016, 630 p. (ISBN 978-2-84654-441-2)
Quatrième état le plus peuplé de la planète, premier pays du monde musulman, seule véritable démocratie d’Asie du Sud-Est, l’Indonésie demeure un géant méconnu. Au carrefour des influences indienne et chinoise, les frontières de ce vaste archipel furent dessinées au gré des heurts entre impérialismes européens (Espagne, Portugal, Angleterre et surtout Pays-Bas).
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GÉOPOLITIQUE DES RESSOURCES MINIÈRES EN ASIE DU SUD-EST,
Trajectoires plurielles et incertaines – Indonésie, Laos et Viêt Nam
Éric Mottet, Frédéric Lasserre et Barthélémy Courmont
Presses universitaires du Québec en association avec l’IRASEC
Collection Asies contemporaines, 266 p. (ISBN 978-2-7605-4328-7)
Le secteur minier apparaît depuis quelques années comme un élément central et fondamental dans le processus de développement de bien des pays, dont ceux de l’Asie du Sud-Est. En effet, il s’impose de (...)

- Public debate, 26 november 2015, at Alliance Française Bangkok, from 6 to 9 pm,
Exposition, from 16 to 26 november 2015, at Alliance Française Bangkok, then,
from 30 november 2015, at the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University,
Academic symposium, 30 novembre 2015, at the Faculty of Architecture of
Chulalongkorn University
Grand Bangkok – Grand Paris is a project of academic cooperation launched by IRASEC and received the support of Institut français, with the partnership (...)

METAMORPHOSIS,
Studies in social and political change in Myanmar
R. Egreteau & F. Robinne (eds.)
Singapore / NUS Press in association with IRASEC
XV + 428 p. (ISBN 978-997-1698-66-9)
With a young population of more than 52 million, an ambitious roadmap for political reform, and on the cusp of rapid economic development, since 2010 the world’s attention has been drawn to Myanmar or Burma.
But underlying recent political transitions are other wrenching social changes and shocks, a (...)

10th year anniversary French-Upper Mekong Sub-region
Academic Cooperation Center
On the occasion of 10th anniversary of French-Upper Mekong Sub-region Academic Cooperation Centre of Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai, the seminar was organized at Mae Fah Luang University on 17 September 2015 on the theme of « France in Thailand: Past, Present, Future ».
IRASEC represented by François Robinne and Jean Baffie who is a researcher of CNRS, recently appointed at IRASEC Bangkok with the speech (...)

Conférence de F. Pommaret
IRASEC / Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC)
The religious categories in Bhutan are often puzzling for the outsiders even if they are Buddhist themselves. The term lama used freely to label any male religious person does not help to understand the complexity of this religious culture.
The tradition of Bhutanese Buddhism is similar to Tibetan Buddhism and belongs to Vajrayana which has different set of rules from Theravada.
This lecture presents an overview of (...)

The new IRASEC Occasional Papers, “Vietnam : One-Party State and the Mimicry of Civil Society”, written by John Kleinen, has been just published.
Full details of the book.