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 (...)

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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 (...)

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 (...)

Centres de recherche
CASE – Centre Asie du Sud-Est / CNRS
190-198, avenue de France (6e étage A), 75244 Paris Cedex 13
https://case.ehess.fr/
CEFC - Centre d’Étude Français sur la Chine Contemporaine
Rm. 3029, Academic Building,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
https://www.cefc.com.hk/
CHAC - Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie (...)

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 (...)