[Publication] IRASEC-ISEAS - Sustainability of Thailand's Competitiveness:

The Policy Challenges

Edited by Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Yveline Lecler

Competitiveness of a country requires continuous upgrading and sometimes, major transformation. Thailand is at the crossroad. It can no longer pursue a strategy based on low-cost advantages, but its capability achievements are still too low to become an advanced economy. This book points out weaknesses of Thailand’s national innovation system or education and suggests how the county should develop new capabilities to survive and prosper in the globalized and fiercely competitive world. It will be useful to researchers and students who want to learn more about Thailand and emerging countries, and also to policy-makers and executives involved in economic and industrial development.

 

Sustainability of Thailand’s Competitiveness

The Policy ChallengeEdited by Patarapong INTARAKUMNERD and Yveline LECLER
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 2010, 331 pages.
ISBN: 978-981-4279-47-5
ISBN: 978-981-4279-48-2 (e-book PDF)

IRASEC c/o French Embassy
29, Sathorn Tai Road, Bangkok 10120 Thailand
Tel: (66) 026 27 21 87
www.irasec.com

Call for papers - Portuguese/Luso Asian (Singapore and Malaysia)

Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011

28–30 September 2010

Singapore and Melaka

Co-sponsored by :

The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

The Embassy of Portugal in Singapore

CFP Website:  Call for papers-28-30.sep.10 (pdf)

In recognition of the half-millennium that has transpired since Afonso de Albuquerque's conquest of Melaka in 1511, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies issues this call for papers for a three-day interdisciplinary international conference of about 25 scholars to explore the legacies and evolution of Portuguese and Luso-Asian peoples and communities in Southeast Asia (along the Goa-Melaka-Macau axis) over the past 500 years.  Contributors are encouraged to submit paper abstracts whose themes build on recent scholarship that is introducing fresh perspectives for characterizing and contextualizing Portuguese/Luso-Asian experiences and interactions in the region.  Papers that also attempt to demonstrate (a) long-term legacies and evolutionary processes, or (b) linkages between the Portuguese/Luso-Asians in Southeast Asia and the larger Portuguese world globally are especially welcome.  Possible themes for papers include:

- Societal accommodation and attendant outcomes;

- Collaboration, integration, adaptation, and networking;

- Continuities, discontinuities, and transformations (political, economic, social, cultural, religious, or scientific);

- Reciprocal cultural impacts and social hybridity;

- Interactions and conflicts;

- The dynamics and impact of both formal and informal Portuguese and Luso-Asian structures and communities.
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Paper selection will begin on 12 April 2010 and conclude on 10 May 2010.

Electronic versions of proposals should be submitted to Dr. Laura Jarnagin Pang, PhD.
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