CSEAS has been involved in the Core University Program since 1986. The
Core is an academic exchange program of the Japan Society of the Promotion
of Science (JSPS) to promote academic collaboration with Asian developing
countries. Following the first phase (1986-98), the second phase began
in 1999 under the title of “REGION MAKING IN EAST ASIA” between CSEAS
and Thammasat University in Thailand.
The first project is “Hegemony,” coordinated by Shiraishi T.(1999-2001),
and the second project is “Technocracy,” coordinated by Hamashita T.(1999-2001)
In 2000, the third project, “State, Market, Society and Economic Integration,”
was initiated by Abe S. in cooperation with Bhanupong N (2000 ? 2003).
One of the departures from the initial phase is exchange with scientists
not only from Thailand but from other Asian countries as well. Following
the completion of the first two projects in 2001, the forth and fifth projects
started ;“Emergent Middle Classes as a Social Formation in East Asia,”
led by Shiraishi T. and Supang C.(2002- 2004), and “Dynamics of Flows
and Movements in Southeast Asia,” coordinated by Ishikawa N., C. Hau,
and Julaporn E. (2002 ?204). The sixth project “Market and Economic Partnership”,
coordinated by Abe S. and Bhanupong N started in 2004. And the seventh
project “Entrepreneurship in East Asia: Political, Economic, Cultural
and Social: Establishing a New Model of East Asian Political Economy”,
coordinated by Mizuno, K. and Pasuk, P. and the eighth project “Changing
“Family””, coordinated by Hayami, Y. started in 2005. The ninth project
“The Asian International Economic Order: Past, Present and Future”, coordinated
by Sugihara, K and Somboon S. are planned to start in 2006.
We try to apply interdisciplinary approaches as much as possible to make researchers understand political, cultural and economic issues of importance in East Asia through enhancing networking, deepening joint research, holding workshops and publishing and disseminating the results of our research. All the proceedings of past workshops are shared by the researchers concerned, and a selected collection of papers from the “Hegemony” and “Technocracy” projects was published in 2004 with title After the Crisis, Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia (ed. Shiraishi T. and Abinales P.) In addition, we are trying to make
this a multi-country project by inviting collaboration from Indonesia's
LIPI and the Philippines' Ateneo de Manila University in order to the studies
more area-oriented and less country-oriented.
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