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The project SEATIDE brings together Southeast Asian (SEA) and European researchers with two objectives: research and network development.
Research. Using locally focused field study methodologies, our experience of research on integration frameworks in Southeast Asia shows that historical and contemporary integrative processes include some groups and exclude others. Exclusion of communities presents risks to human development and security, even of framework disintegration. This understanding directs our research question: in processes of integration, who is excluded? We address it in thematic work packages – with relevant qualitative/quantitative case studies guided by a common analytical framework – focused on four key issues: diversity, prosperity, knowledge and security. Attention to SEA’s sub-regions and globalisation/transnational issues defines our approach.
Structuring the European Research Area (ERA). On the basis of existing structures – the unique EFEO network of 10 field centres in SEA, plus ECAF, EUROSEAS, ASEF – we work for the development of effective, integrated networks of EU-SEA research, embracing Western European and ASEAN-founder countries alongside Eastern/Southern Europe and post-communist SEA nations. Broad dissemination of results is essential to the project’s success, through conferences, publications, press coverage and policy briefs. Our recent and innovative research serves to improve the dialogue – initiated in the EFEO’s FP7 project IDEAS – between social scientists and policymakers. |
