Asian Review 2018 vol. 32 No. 1

ASEAN in the Brave New World—Understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st Century World Order

บรรณาธิการโดย Wasana Wongsurawat

ISSN 0857-3662

Introduction
Wasana Wongsurawat
AThis issue of the Asian Review has been put together in recognition of the achievement and milestone of the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) that has successfully convened two biannual conferences in Kyoto in 2015 and in Bangkok in 2017. The SEASIA, which is made up of thirteen institutions as of today, from nine countries across East and Southeast Asia, is a remarkable step towards encouraging region-based research and cooperation among scholars and institutions of Southeast Asian Studies and related fields. The establishment of SEASIA itself and its founding objectives carry more than a slight connotation of postcolonial aspirations. Southeast Asian Studies, together with other area studies fields, came into being first in American institutions of research and higher education as a direct product of the Cold War and the expansion of US hegemony into various embattled regions of the world. The first major centers of Southeast Asian research were naturally in leading American universities—Cornell, Berkeley and Wisconsin being a few outstanding examples. Through the decades of the Cold War, research interests and funding started to mushroom across the Atlantic in leading institutions in Britain and continental Europe as well. International academic conferences across the Atlantic began to emerge and welcome research relating to Southeast Asia—from the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS) in the US to the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) in Europe and the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), which has come to be organized alternately in Europe and Asia. Yet, as the conclusion of the Cold War came to pass in the late-1980s and early-1990s and up to the end of the 20th century, the greatest powerhouses in Southeast Asian Studies research appeared to remain in “the West”—making scholars from the region working on their own native region a marginalized group in these American and Eurocentric international conferences.

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