David Camroux
MCU Professor Sciences Po
david.camroux@sciences-po.fr - Tél.: +33 1 58 71 70 23

MCU (Senior Lecturer) in Asian Studies seconded to Sciences Po from the University of Paris XII since 1998, and a researcher at the CERI since 1990. In East Asia, he is a Visiting Professor at Yonsei University (Seoul), Keio University (Tokyo) and the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur). His previous positions at Sciences Po, were as Director of Studies at the Centre des Hautes Études sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes (CHEAM), from 1994-1998, and Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Centre from 1998-2004. Prior to this, he held positions at the University of Paris XII and the University of Paris VIII (St Denis). He was the founding European Corresponding Editor of The Pacific Review from 1994 till 2008. He is co-editor of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affair
David Camroux studied for his first degree at the University of Sydney and for his doctorate at the Sorbonne. He has been an academic advisor and evaluator for EC financed European Studies programmes in Vietnam (2001-2004) and in China (2004-2008) as well as other occasional consultancy activities for the European Commission. He was a board member for the EU-NESCA (Network of European Studies in Asia) FP6 project (2005 - 2009) and is on the advisory board of the EsiA (European Studies in Asia) network established by the Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore in 2005.

His interdisciplinary academic background in history and the social sciences has led to a research approach which draws on both comparative politics and international relations theories and methods. At the CERI he participates actively in two transversal projects on Migrations et relations internationales and  Economies politiques comparées: EU/Asie. He is also involved in the EU-funded FP6 research network, GARNET, and coordinates the CERI’s participation in an FP7 project, Mercury.
He is a regular commentator on Southeast Asian and Australasian matters for the media.  For his academic achievements, he was made a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes académiques" in July 1993 and a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in May 1997.

Teaching
- Sciences Po:
’Tradition’ and ’Modernity’ in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Masters level)
Politics and Societies in Southeast Asia (undergraduate level)

- Yonsei University, Keio University and the University of Malaya
The Politics and Economics of  the European Union (undergraduate level)
Asian Regional Integration (undergraduate level)
Comparative European and Asian Regionalization (Masters level)
EU-Asian Relations (Masters level)

Research Interests
- Comparative regional integration (EU-Asia) : The EU as a global actor in Asia
- Nationalism, ‘nation-building’, regime consolidation and regionalization in Southeast Asia
- Domestic politics, religious resurgence in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
- Migration, globalization and ‘transnationalism’ in Southeast Asia.
- Australia in their Asian environment

English bio

Publications
Books
  • (avec Don Pathan) Irredentist Patani: ‘Islamic Anticolonialism’ in Southern Thailand, Melbourne, Monash University Press, 2009 (à paraître)
Editorships of books and special issues
  • "US-Asia Relations after 9/11: ‘Hegemony or Partnership’? ", The Pacific Review, vol. 17, n° 2, June 2004.
  • (avec Jean-Luc Domenach), L'Asie retrouvée, Paris, le Seuil, 1997.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Contributions to edited volumes
  • "Nationalizing a 'Transnational' Diaspora? The Philippine State and Filipino Emigration" in Jorge Tinio (ed.) Changing Dynamics in Filipino Overseas Migration: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Regionalism and the State, Quezon City, Philippine Migration Research Network & Philippine Social Science Council, 2009.
  • "The Political and Economic Dimensions of EU-ASEAN Relations" dans José Luis Sales Marquez, Reimund Seidelmann & Andreas Vasilache (eds), Asia and Europe: Dynamics of Inter and Intra-Regional Dialogues, Baden Baden, Nomos Publishing, 2009, pp. 183-207.
  • "The Political Economy of European Studies in Europe and Asia: Programmes, Pitfalls, Prospects" dans Dai Bingran & Jian Junbo (eds), The Enlarged European Union: Prospects and Implications, Baden Baden, Nomos Publishing, 2008, pp. 181-190.
  • (avec Don Pathan) "Borders of/on the Mind, Borders in the Jungle: Islamic Insurgency and Ethno-Religious Irredentism in Southern Thailand" dans Nikki Slocum-Bradley (ed.) Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 81-102.
  • "The Quadruplicity of Region and Three Level Games: Exploring New Paradigms in Comparing Asian and European Regional Integration" dans Reimund Seidelmann & Andreas Vasilache (eds), The European Union and Asia: A Dialogue on Regionalism and Interregional Cooperation, Baden Baden, Nomos Publishing, 2008, pp. 161-176.
  • "China and its Neighbors" in Stanley Crossick & Etienne Reiter (eds), China-EU: A Common Future, Singapour, World Scientific, 2007, pp. 93-106.
  • ‘Asia, whose Asia?’ Evolving conceptions of an Asian Community from the 1920s till today" dans Heribert Dieter (ed.) The Evolution of Regionalism in Asia: Economic and Security Issues, Londres, Routledge, 2007, pp. 11-33.
  • (avec Park Sunghee), "Korea and ASEM " dans Wim Stokhof, Paul Van Der Velde & Yeo Lay Hwee (eds), The Eurasian Space: Far More than Two Continents, Singapour, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004, pp.172-194.
  • "Contemporary EU-East Asian Relations: An Assessment of the ASEM Process" dans Rajendra K. Jain (ed.) The European Union in a Changing World, New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 2002, pp. 142-165.
  • "Des nations imaginées à la région rêvée",  dans David Camroux & Jean-Luc Domenach (eds), L'Asie retrouvée, Paris, le Seuil, 1997 pp. 53-75.
  • "Malaisie: Le retour vers un futur asiatique" dans ibid, pp. 125-145.
Other
Working papers
  • "Nationalizing Transnationalism? The Philippine State and the Filipino Diaspora", Etudes du CERI, n°152, décembre 2008.
  • "The European Union and ASEAN : Two to Tango ?", Notre Europe Studies and Research, n°65, juin 2008.
  • "Undétour par l'extérieur. Unité nationale et politique étrangère en Malaisie",  Les Cahiers du CERI n°11, 1994.
  • "'Looking East'... and Inwards: Internal Factors in Malaysian Foreign Relations during the Mahathir Era, 1981-1994", Australia-Asia Working Papers n°72, Centre for the Study of Australia Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1994

Other

  • "Les Philippines, mauvais élève asiatique? ", Revue des Deux Mondes, octobre-novembre, 2007, pp. 50-53.
  • "Les Philippines d’un coup d’Etat à l’autre", Le Monde diplomatique, n°627, juin 2006, pp. 22-23
  • "Le nationalisme égaré de la Malaisie", Le Monde diplomatique, février    1999. (aussi dans, Ignacio RAMONET et. al. (eds) La mondialisation contre l’Asie, Manière de voir n°47, septembre-octobre 1999, pp. 25-27.
  • "Les secousses asiatiques atteignent l'Australie", Le Monde, 25 novembre 1997.
  • "L'Australie prend ses distances avec le libéralisme", Le Monde, 24 juin 1997.
  • "ASEAN should reconstruct its engagement with Myanmar", Asia Times (Bangkok), 4 octobre 1996
  • (avec Jean-Marie Bouissou), "Sommet Euro-Asie: le piège et la promesse", Le Monde, 1 mars 1996.
  • "Does the West Exist?", Asia Times  (Bangkok), février 1996.
  • "L'Australie inscrit son destin en Asie-Pacifique", Le Monde diplomatique, n°472, juillet 1993, pp. 24-25.
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