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Funding Agency | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | National Research Council of Thailand(NRCT) |
Core University | CSEAS, Kyoto University | Thammasat University Chulalongkorn University |
Representative Director | Kosuke MIZUNO, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies | Surapon NITIKRAIPOT, Rector, Thammasat University |
Coordinator | Kosuke MIZUNO, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies | Surapon NITIKRAIPOT, Rector, Thammasat University Supang Chantavanich, Director, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University |
Collaborating Universities | Institute for Oriental Studies/ Institute of Social Science, University
of Tokyo, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University National Museum of Ethnology, National Institutes for the Humanities Faculty of Political Studies, Doshisha University National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
Chulalongkorn University Mahidol University Silapakorn University Chiang Mai University National Institute of Development Administration |
With East Asian regionalization increasingly becoming a reality, and the further refinement of Japan’s East Asia policy as shown by the increasing number of economic partnership initiatives Japan has taken, this program aims to understand better these developments through a series of intellectual and academic exchanges between Japanese and Southeast Asian scholars and researchers. These exchanges will take the form of joint research projects, with Kyoto University (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) in Japan and Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand as main hubs.
Unlike in Europe, this regional integration has not been promoted by political will or active government involvement. Instead, East Asian regional formation relies principally on market power which seeks to expand informal networking and production and integration of production and marketing.
In this regional economic development, middle classes have also emerged in each country, and have played instrumental roles in increasing the flow of people, goods, money and information across the region. How this rise in the scale and volume in human, commodity and information flows has affected national and regional transformation of East Asia is the issue that this interdisciplinary joint research projects will focus on.
In 2006, Project 9 “The Asian International Economic Order: Past, Present and Future” will start.
We will invite 20 or more Thai scholars and a dozen other Asian Scholars to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. We have so far held such three such workshops at Thammasat University and Kyoto University, including a number of special seminars where individual participants were asked to give talks on their research. One such workshop was recently held in October 2005 (Photo 1).
The most important achievement of this program is the fact that a new field of study "the East Asian regional system and its formation" was born and that a community devoted to the study of this regional system has evolved based on the close collaboration between academics and intellectuals. This network of academics and intellectuals working is continuously expanding from the original formation (Japan and Thailand) to include scholars from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
This academic network has published the outcomes of its previous research. The book titled After the Crisis, Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asian from Kyoto University Press came out in March 2005. We have also published the proceedings of four international workshops on “State, Market, Society, and Economic Cooperation in Asia”, “Middle Classes in East Asia”, “Flows and Movements in East Asia” and “Hegemony, Technocracy, Networks”, from Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. (Photo 2). We plan to come out with more publications at the conclusion of the research projects.
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