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On 5 and 6 of December 2015, Markus Siewert and Jonas Buche from Goethe University Frankfurt (Political Science, Chair for Qualitative Empirical Research Prof. Wagemann) will hold a workshop on the method.

The Chair of International Politics, in cooperation with Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg and the Center for Transcultural Asian Studies (CETRAS) is organizing a Methods Workshop on 21 April, from 9 AM to 5 PM. Researchers, PhD students and interested students may register until 7 April.

Vice-Chair Person of the Southeast Asian Studies Program Judith Schlehe published the latest Issue of our Occasional Papers Series.

The University of Freiburg has established the Center for Transcultural Asian Studies/CETRAS.

the program for the 2016 summer term is now available.

This article on East Asian and European forum shopping in global governance argues that the “principled multilateralism” of the immediate post-Cold War period is increasingly giving way to what may be called a “diminished multilateralism.” Newly emerging global and regional powers such as the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other rising powers in the Global South are increasingly questioning the legitimacy of the existing international architecture which they regard as a vehicle of the USA and Western countries to conserve their international influence in an era of rapid change ...

(...) This article proposes a ‘via media’: a theoretical approach that can be applied to Western and non-Western IR alike, taking into consideration the specific historical, ideational and cultural contexts. Based on social constructivism as developed by Alexander Wendt, it is argued that the existence of a collective identity among states in a given region can manifest itself in distinctive logics or cultures of anarchy. These are based on norms of conflict or cooperation that can be established through interaction, can be proposed by outside agents and localized, or can be affected by the re-negotiation of state identity caused by domestic events. In addition, there are cultural path dependencies: norms rooted in the cultural memory or consciousness of a region which tend to be ignored by interpretations that merely focus on current events or established Western models of cooperation. Area studies can contribute to provide this context.

in October 2013 SEA Studies at Freiburg has invited several guest lectures to the University. Dvora Yanow (Wageningen University) will speak about "Interpretive Research Design", Carol Tan´s (University of London) talk will be on "When Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers sue their employers in Hong Kong" and Raul Cordenillo (The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) will hold a lecture about "Democratising ASEAN: Reflections of an ex-ASEAN Civil Servant".

The multi-level dimension of migration governance is gaining increasing attention – and that includes the regional and sub-regional level. As a contribution to this research, Nicola Piper, Jürgen Rüland and Stefan Rother have guest edited a two-part special Issue for the European Journal of East Asian studies (EJEAS).

Günther Schulze presented his paper "Innovation in Manufacturing and Service Sector – Determinants and Challenges" at the workshop “In Making Indonesia Internationally Competitive”, organized by Mari Pangestu (Universitas Indonesia) and Lili Yan Ing (ERIA), held on 25-26 June 2016 in Bali.