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Abstracts and Papers by Author:

Name Paper Title Abstract Paper PPT
A Moe Naing Negotiating Knowledge in Co-management: A Case Study of Community Forestry in Wuyang Village, Waimaw Township, Kachin State, Myanmar

 
Adam Burke Hollow words: Foreign Aid and Peacebuilding in Peripheral
Conflicts

 
AKM Ahsan Ullah Porous borders and trafficking in Southeast Asia (SEA) revisited: What about the border policies for those in crisis?

 
Alfred Gerstl Human Security and China´s Rise as Triggers for Regional and Intra-Regional Cooperation in and between Southeast and Northeast Asia 

 
Ali Azgar Fakir Development & Flood Risk:  The Struggle for Sustainability

 
Andrea K. Molnar Women’s Agency in the Malay Muslim communities of Southern Thailand with comparative observations on women’s engagement in Timor Leste and Indonesia

 
Angguntari C. Sari Whose Idea Matter the Most? Is it the Military Junta or the International Community?

 
Anil Kumar Thakur Articulating Social Justice in the Realms of Food Security in South Asia: a few narratives from India

 
Anthony Ware Extreme Poverty Alleviation in Myanmar and Socialisation to International Norms: to what extent should aid levels be dictated by human rights and governance concerns?

 
Aries A. Arugay Saviors or Spoilers? Explaining “Civil Society Coups” in an Age of Democratization

 
Benjamin Tausig A Division of Listening: Military Broadcasts at the 2010 Bangkok Protests

 
Bhakti Deodhar The ASEAN Way and Good Governance: Collaborators or Contenders?

 
Bhanupong Nidhiprabha Macroeconomic consequences of Thailand’s exchange rate policy    
Bhanupong Nidhiprabha Thailand’s fiscal policy for growth and price stability

   
Bounneuang Douangboupha Food security and Agricultural sustainability: wild vegetables and the role play of  production vegetables for rural livelihood nutrition in Northern of Lao PDR 

   
Catherine M. Renshaw Law, Legitimacy and the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

 
Chai Xiong The Act of Forgiveness among Hmong Leadership in Laos PDR: Mimesis and Solicitude

 
Champa Lattanasouvannaphonh Banh Jek Street in the city of Luang Phabang: A production of space as representations of development

 
Charmaine G. Misalucha A Multiplicity of Regionalisms

 
Chea Ravin & Ung Luyna Effectiveness of Macroeconomic Policies in Cambodia

   
Christian Schafferer The crises of democracy in Asia: A comparative study of the new democratic movements in Thailand and Taiwan

 
Coeli Barry & Matthew John Mullen The Malleability of Human Rights: The Case of Thailand's Global Human Rights Standing in a Time of Domestic Political Crisis      
Corinna Johannsen The recession of democracy in Thailand 

 
Eko Priyo Purnomo & Megandaru Widhi Kawuryan The Critical Comparison of the Green Parties’ Phenomena Between Indonesia and Thailand

 
Ellen A. Herda An Essential Tension in Development: Narrative Identity in Adult Learning

 
Emily Hong Human Rights by Another Name: Civil Society Strategies in Authoritarian Contexts in the Greater Mekong Subregion

 
Emmy Anne B. Yanga Climate Change and ASEAN

 
Eula Bianca Villar Overcoming Bottlenecks of Development from Nation-State to Individuals: The ASEAN Experience of Regional Prosperity through Integration

 
Fadillah Putra Economic Development and Southeast Asia's Democratic Governance

 
Ferdinal Warisan Suharto: Violence in Indonesian Short Fiction

 
Gao Qi Challenging yet Promising: The Development of ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperative Mechanism

 
H.G.Joshi Women empowerment through Micro-enterprise activities: Role of MFI’s -A study of MFI’s in coastal district of south Karnataka. 

 
Hariati Sinaga Dress­ and Auto­Makers in the “Free Trade” Arena: A Case Study of the Impact of Free Trade on Labour Standards in Labour­ and Capital ­intensive Industries in a Developing Country 

 
Hastangka
& Diasma Sandi Swandaru 
The Sultan and Local Direct Democracy: The Transition to Democracy in Yogyakarta, an Inquiry

 
Howie Phung The Responsibility to Protect: Developing a framework of engagement to prevent atrocities crimes in Myanmar

 
Ian Niccolo Tobia Calling a Spade a Spade: Confessing to the Politicization of ASEAN and ushering the Regional Human Rights Agenda forward

 
Isagani A.F.Yuzon & Theresita V. Atienza Human Rights, Development and the Informal Sector

 
Istvan Rado The Contribution of Buddhist Economics to Contemporary Development Theory

 
James Gomez Electoral Democracy and Human Rights:  Civil Society Engagement in Political Reform in Singapore

   
Japigorn  Puagsopa & Pakarang  Chuenjit The Negative Aspect of NPM as Governance: Real practice from Thai northeast region

 
Jeane Peracullo Re/Production of Vulnerable Female Asian Bodies across (Virtual) Time and (Cyber) Space:  The Case of Japanese and Filipino Women

 
Jennene Marum Influences of legitimacy in governance

 
Julio C. Teehankee From Aquino to Aquino: Transitional Challenges and Presidential Leadership in Democratizing Philippines

 
Kasian Tejapira Governance in Thailand

 
Kearrin Sims Expanding Regionalism in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Challenges and concerns for the Lao PDR

 
Keokam Kraisoraphong Water Regime for Human Security: The Regional Public Goods of the Lower Mekong Basin

 
Kevin McGahan Regional Organizations as Human Rights Entrepreneurs? Explaining the Origins and Impact of the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism 

 
Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn Mekong Hydropower Projects, Liberalization of the GMS Energy Market and Transnational Anti-dam Movements as Alternative Governance Mechanism

 
Lermie Shayne S. Garcia South-South Cooperation: A Developmental Approach

 
Linkham Douangsavanh & Sikham Siphachane Changing of Land Use and Land Tenure Influenced by Rubber Plantation in Namo District, Oudomexay Province, northern of Lao PDR

   
Linkham Duangsavanh & Souklay Sysaneth Farmer Organizations Development and Food Security in Rural Areas The Case Studies in the Three Parts of The Lao PDR

   
Liu Yangyue Internet Space as a Democratic Enclave? Diverse Lessons from
Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore

 
Lukas Rudolph Increasing Food Security by Asset Transfer  Evidence of a Pro-Ultra-Poor Intervention in Bangladesh

 
Ma. Zaida Q. Fresnido A comparative Analysis of the Philippine and Malaysian Legal Systems against Trafficking in Persons

 
Maaike Benders Civil society and expectations of democratisation from below: the case of Burma/Myanmar      
Makasiri Chaowagul Farmer organization and food security of  Thailand

   
Marco Stefan B. Lagman Home-Cooked Food, Baketball Leagues, Phone Calls and Cargo Boxes as Reflections of Transnational Intimacy and Identity among Baltimore-Based Filipinos

 
Maria Ela L. Atienza Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Philippines, Localization of the MDGs and Implications for Mainstreaming Human Security
 
Maria Ima Carmela L. Ariate Comparative Analysis of News Media in Thailand and Vietnam from 2004-2008

 
Maria Palmo Cultural Reality Appropriate through Imagined Communities in Uganda

 
Marly Anne Bacaron Is Community Participation possible within on-going Decentralization Reforms? A look at the Health Sector within a Cambodian Context

 
Max Grömping Disaggregating Electoral Violence in Thailand

   
Melanie Pichler Palm Oil and Agrofuels in South-East Asia: A Political Ecology
Framework for Studying Human-Nature Interactions and the Role of the State

 
Melissa Hamblin Defending the Defenders: The Role of Asia Pacific National Human Rights Institutions in defending Human Rights Defenders.

 
Mikael Baaz and Mona Lilja The (re)construction of memories in the aftermath of trauma: Women struggling for representation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

 
Mohd. Azizuddin bin Mohd. Sani Free Cyberspace versus State Regulation on Political Speech in Malaysia

 
Monica Ang Learning about Democracy from the Hidden: A Look into the Filipino Classroom

 
Muktasam Abdurrahman Promoting Effective Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development in Indonesia through Micro- and Macropolicies: A Sociological Perspective

 
Nadine Reis Tracing and making the state: Policy practices and domestic water supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam 

 
Naranjargal Khashkhuu Role of media in democratic elections: lessons from Mongolia

 
Nguyen Hong Son, Nguyen Manh Hung & Nguyen Thi Vu Ha Exchange rate and capital flows management in Vietnam 

   
Nguyen Ngoc Thanh & Pham Van Ha Vietnam’s Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy 

   
Nguyen Van Ngai & Tran Minh Tri, Vietnam Some Aspects of Food security in Vietnam

   
Novita Rakhmawati A Critical Analysis on the Role of Religious Communities in Indonesia`s Public Diplomacy

 
P. Jane Reas ‘Boy, have we got a vacation for you’: Orphanage Tourism in Cambodia and the Commodification and Objectification of the Orphaned Child

 
Phongthorn Wrasai A synthesis of macroeconomic policy strategy of CLTV countries

   
Phouphet Kyophilavong Coping with capital inflows: Policy options for Laos

   
Pichamon Yeophantong Contested Waterscapes, Contending Responsibilities:
China and water governance in the Mekong River basin

 
Pracha Koonnathamdee Toward the Next Decade of Thailand’s  Fiscal Decentralization: Learning from the past

   
Priyambudi Sulistiyanto The Politics of Free Public Services in Decentralised Indonesia

 
Radhika Kumar Development and the Capabilities Approach: A study of the Education Guarantee Scheme in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India

 
Rafif Pamenang Imawan CSO and the Democratic Transition in Indonesia: A social empowerment study by IRE and INSIST in building the awareness of the rights of citizens in Yogyakarta

 
Ranganathan Nalini Holistic Development and CSR: The Indian Model

 
Ratih Pratiwi Anwar Remittances and Village Development in Indonesia: The Case of Former Migrant Workers in Korea from Ngoro-oro Village in Yogyakarta Special Region Province

 
Ravissa  Suchato Evaluation of Food Security Policy and Other Alternatives under Market Power Concept  : Thai Rice Production

   
Rosa Babel Calilung-Teehankee Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Governance: Metro Manila after Typhoon Ketsana

 
Rose Carmelle I. Lacuata The Chinese “Problem”: The Cultural Integration of the Chinese in Thailand and the Philippines

 
Rusdi bin Omar & Muhammad Fuad Othman Malaysia-Singapore Relations under Mohd. Najib Tun Razak

 
Santiago Ballina Weapons, Drugs and Human Smuggling. Mexico and Thailand: Regional Perspectives and Shared Lessons 

 
Seint Sann Zaw Lived Experiences and Post Nargis Livelihood Recovery  
 
Shekh Mohammand Altafur Rahman Governance Dimension of Mutual Education Migration: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Student in Thailand

 
Sikham Siphachane Changing of Land Use and Land Tenure Influenced by Rubber Plantation in Namo  District, Oudomexay Province, northern of Lao PDR       
Simon Sottsas Autonomy without democracy is like chocolate without sugar: Peace and democratic development as a necessary combination discussed along the example of the Bangsa Moro on the Southern Philippines

 
Siphat Lim Dollarization and the effectiveness of monetary policy in Cambodia

   
Sok Serey & Xiaojiang Yu Bottlenecks and constraints in decentralizing fishery management to the community fisheries (CFs): a case study of Kompong Pou Commune in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia 

 
Somlith Vilavong Impact of Rubber Plantation in the Luang Namtha (Northern) and Champasack (Southern) related to Land use and concession: Key for poverty alleviation and food security ? 

   
Sonny Zulhuda National Security in Digital Economy: Redefinition, Reaction and Legal Reform

 
Souklaty Sisaneth Farmer Organizations Development and Food Security in Rural Areas : The Case Studies in the Three Parts of The Lao PDR       
Supruet Thavornyutikarn & Isriya Bunyasiri Land tenure and food security

   
Sustarum Thammaboosadee Poltical Economy of Urban Involution, the labour absorbtion in NIDL: A case study of Samuthprakarn and transnational worker

 
Sutee Suksudaj The association between Thai social capital and financial status/health status of Inpaeng people, Sakonnakhon

 
Swarn Lata Sharma Democratic Decentralization and Grass Root Democracy in India: Challenges and Solutions

 
Tai Wan-Ping & Hung Po-Chih Internationalization of Thai’s Automotive Industry: the Political Economy Analysis of Industrial Development in Post Developmental States

 
Tanaporn Leetrakulsilp Lao People's Democratic Republic and ASEAN Political-Security Community

 
Tatak Prapti Ujiyati Making Decentralization and Governance Work for the Poor: Oxfam – and its Partners experience in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam

 
Theoben Jerdan C. Orosa The Role of Judiciaries in Promoting Human Rights: The Promulgation of the Writ of Amparo and the Writ of Habeas Data and the Role of the Philippine Supreme Court in Human Rights Protection Against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearance

 
Tim Anderson Melanesian customary land and hybrid livelihoods

 
Timothy Payne An Ontology of Micro-finance in Burma: New Leaders in Old Villages

 
Tomáš Petrů Vigilantes and gangsters in Indonesian Politics and Public Space: A Threat to the Country´s Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights 

 
Valerie Dzubur A Woman of Merit: Building the Silk Road of Laos through Space and Time

 
Veeranki Maheswararao Milk Cooperatives and Governance: A Case from India

 
Vidhyandika D. Perkasa The Society ‘Under Siege’ : Observing Human Insecurity and Root Causes of Weak Governance In Papua 

 
Vu Quoc Huy Fiscal stimulus in Viet Nam

   
Wolfram Schaffar Transnational activism and the role of the nation state: People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) and compulsory licensing in Thailand

 
Wu Yunmei, Anan Lora-Wainwright &  Zhang Yiyun Economy-oriented and Localized Industrial Pollution: Villagers’ Logic of Action Facing Industrial Pollution in A Village Southwest of China  

 
Yang Lai Fong & Md. Sidin Ahmad Ishak Framing Interethnic Conflict in Malaysia: A Comparative Analysis of Newspapers Coverage on the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf)

 
Yang Yamei On the Disappearance of Tropical Rainforest in Southeast Asia and Possible Solutions

 
Yuniarti Investment and National Development

 
Yvonne Tew Constitutional Governance in Southeast Asia: Reassessing Human Rights Perspectives in Malaysia and Singapore