Located on the edge of the Asia-Pacific, Timor-Leste is known for having been the scene of one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century : the "Timorese genocide" of 1999 precipitated its independence in 2002, after 24 years of Indonesian annexation. Frequently described as "the poorest country in Asia", Timor-Leste has an oil fund of 15 billion dollars, and in 2011 it even proposed to buy back part of the Portuguese debt.
Analysing in turn the history, the socio-cultural (...)

Le directeur de l’IRASEC, Dr. François ROBINNE accompagné de M. Jiradej MAHAWANNAKIJ (le secrétaire général adjoint de l’IRASEC), le directeur de l’Alliance française de Bangkok, M. Christian MERER, ainsi que le Conseiller de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France à Bangkok, M. Jérémy OPRITESCO, ont visité, le 26 février dernier, l’UDDC, nouvelle agence thaïlandaise de réflexion et de prospective sur l’urbanisme. Ils ont notamment été reçus par la directrice de l’agence, Mme Niramon (...)

Monsieur Ukrist PATHMANAND, le directeur du Centre d’Etudes du Mékong (Institut d’Etudes Asiatiques) de l’Université Chulalongkorn, accompagné de trois jeunes chercheurs thaïlandais: Mme. Vinissa UJJIN, Mme. Khanidtha KANTHAVICHAI et Mme. Natnicha TUANGVIRUTKORN, ont rendu une visite à l’IRASEC le 25 février dernier. Ils ont été reçus par le directeur de l’IRASEC, Dr. François ROBINNE, ainsi que par le secrétaire général adjoint de l’IRASEC, M. Jiradej MAHAWANNAKIJ.
Lors de cette rencontre ils ont évoqué (...)

Michael D. Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world’s most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore’s ’founding father’ - designed to empower himself and his family.
Barr identifies the crucial institutions of power - including the country’s sovereign wealth funds, and the government-linked (...)

L’Asie du Sud-Est 2014 - Bilan, enjeux et perspectives, sous la direction de Jérémy Jammes et François Robinne, vient de paraître.
Chaque année l’Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC), basé à Bangkok, analyse les principaux événements politiques, économiques, sociaux, environnementaux ou religieux survenus dans l’ensemble du sous-continent asiatique.
Établissant une rétrospective des faits majeurs de l’année 2013, ce livre aide à mieux comprendre les grands enjeux et les (...)

International conference organised by IRASEC, CAF, CEPN, ESCAP, and IRD.
This conference was held on December 16th at the Academy of Social Sciences of Vietnam in Hanoi. It gathered several economists whose research focus on East Asia regional integration with a special emphasis on ASEAN Economic Community due to be launched in 2015. Presentations dealt with the impact of a reduction of trade costs on regional trade, on foreign exchange and global value chains, on ASEAN single market and (...)

Dr Christine Cabasset (IRASEC Associate Researcher) and Dr Benjamim Corte-Real (INL-University of Timor-Leste) organised an international seminar on "Strengthening Asean and Regional Governance" on 11 December 2013 in Dili. Three sessions were successively held on the themes "Politics and Security", "Asean and Regional Security", "Social-Economic Issues" (details in pdf document).
The seminar was hosted by the Secretary of State for Asean Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of (...)

Bruno Jetin has joined the “French-Indonesian Academic Cooperation Meeting” at the invitation of the French Institute in Indonesia of the French Embassy in Indonesia which was held on October 10-11 in Surabaya. This meeting has gathered several hundreds of representatives of universities and research institutes from France and Indonesia. Bruno Jetin has been part of the round table dedicated to economics, law and management. It has been an opportunity to present IRASEC and the resources it (...)

Jérémy Jammes has attended CCSEAS (Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies) symposium, chaired by Prof. Dominique Caouette (CETASE), which was held from 17 to 19 October 2013 at the Carrefour des Arts and Sciences at the University of Montreal among over 120 participants from Canada, South-East Asia, United States and Europe (https://www.casa-acea.ca/++cs_INTERRO++page_id=6). The topic of this year was : “Multiple encounters, shifting spaces : Southeast Asia at the crossroads”. J. Jammes notably opened (...)

A conference about Catching up Southeast Asian New Body : States, Markets and Public Spheres, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University), the Nottingham University (Malaysian Campus) and IRASEC, was held on the 25-29th of September 2013 at the Cape Panwa Hotel in Phuket.
IRASEC organized a panel titled “Regional integration in Southeast Asia and socio-cultural bodies.” Natalie Fau (IRASEC researcher in (...)