Competing Regionalisms in South East Asia

Research project
World History
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China South Sea map

Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia (CRISEA) is a multi-million euro interdisciplinary research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme that studies multiple forces affecting regional integration in Southeast Asia and the challenges they present to the peoples of Southeast Asia and its regional institutional framework, ASEAN. The project comprises a consortium of 13 universities across the world, and is divided into five broad areas of research: the environment, the economy, the state, identity, and the region. At Cambridge, led by Tomas Larsson (co-PI, POLIS) with Rachel Leow (co-PI, History), historians and political scientists are engaged in interdisciplinary research into the state and identity in Southeast Asia from multiple perspectives. Projects include the politics of religion in contemporary Thailand, the historical deportation of ethnic Chinese migrants from Southeast Asia, and the migration of Shan traders on the Lao-Thai border.

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