Screenshot from Kvartal website. Paul O'Shea has written an article on how international relations theory is being misused to explain the war in Ukraine. The article is in Swedish, but Google Translate provides a very good translation or you can read this translated version (PDF, 90kB, new window).  The article examines the question: who is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Prominent memb

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-misusing-and-international-relations-theory-explain-war-ukraine - 2025-08-25

Paul O'Shea has written a new article on the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for disputed territories around the world. The article examines the history of territorial annexation and shows how, post-1945, a norm against conquest emerged. A successful annexation of Ukrainian territory would seriously erode this norm, however, setting a major precedent. This could have impacts especially for

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-invasion-ukraine-could-change-global-map - 2025-08-25

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges, uncertainties, and resilience Tabita Rosendal, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has written a Danish article for the Denmark-China magazine (Danmark-Kina magasinet). In it, she provides an overview of the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) current progress, as well as the challenges and uncertainties it faces on the nation

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-silkevejsinitiativ-udfordringer-uvished-og-udholdenhed - 2025-08-25

Nicholas Loubere has co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method, published by Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Global China series. Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method. The book argues that even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-global-china - 2025-08-25

After several years of expert management at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, the journal has moved across the Öresund to Sweden. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year. The focal point of the journal is modern Asian societies viewed from the standpoints of social sciences and humanities. The geographical focus is Central Asia to Oceania

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-has-found-new-home-centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-08-25

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s use of Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka The article, published in The Pacific Review, analyzes how China’s Buddhist strategic narratives have been used to further the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) progress in Sri Lanka, and argues that under the BRI’s ‘people-to-people’ bonds, Chinese and Sri Lankan officials have used the Buddhist h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinas-buddhist-strategic-narratives-sri-lanka-benefits-and-buddhism - 2025-08-25

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s stake in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis, and what this tells us about the Belt and Road Initiative. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes what the Sri Lanka’s debt crisis can tell us about China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI). During Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, China initially seemed to take a step back, leaving everyone to wonder wheth

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/development-debt-and-distress-examining-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-through-analysis - 2025-08-25

An ancestor portrait as well as sets of boxes with the genealogies were put on palanquins and paraded through the original village while smoke from the firecrackers filled the air. Photo by Marina Svensson. Marina Svensson has published a photo essay in Visual Ethnography. The essay addresses through images and text the work and rituals surrounding the making and printing of genealogies in China.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/genealogy-making-and-lineages-postsocialist-china-space-labor-and-rituals-under-processes - 2025-08-25

Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes how China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. The article recounts how, in recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has worked hard to mitigate criticism of

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/belt-and-road-buddhism-sri-lanka - 2025-08-25

Izzy (Elizabeth Rhoads) has received a Starting Grant within development research from the Swedish Research Council to lead a four-year collaborative research project on new forms of statelessness and displacement in Myanmar.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-izzy-who-has-received-research-grant - 2025-08-25

Lotus Tower in Colombo. Photo by Kanishka Ranasinghe on Pexels.com New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet In this Danish article, Tabita Rosendal provides an overview of China's use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka, arguing that the CCP is utilizing Buddhist strategic narratives in order to pave the way for the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) smooth implementation. She summarizes t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-buddhistiske-diplomati-i-sri-lanka - 2025-08-25

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the Department of Languages an

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2025-08-25

Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo by Justin Min, Unsplash.com Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime. Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship status. The article traces the

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-citizenship-myanmar-published - 2025-08-25

Workshop in Jakarta 13 December Two workshops were organized in Phnom Penh on 8 December and in Jakarta on 13 December to discuss research findings with civil society activists The workshops concluded the Swedish Research Council-funded project "New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia" which brought together researchers from Lund University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and the Cam

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/workshops-civil-society-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-08-25

Photo by Nhat Nguyen Hoang on Unsplash Benjamin Davies has co-authored a report on Sweden’s relationship with Taiwan. The report has been published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Swedish National China Centre. This report (in Swedish), co-written with Viking Bohman, describes the history of Taiwan and its foreign relations, with a focus on Sweden’s relations with the co

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/report-swedens-relationship-taiwan-released - 2025-08-25

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social trends of the past year for East Asia Forum. The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect. The full article on the East Asia Forum website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2022 - 2025-08-25

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in  Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil society elites. It appears in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-leadership-southeast-asia - 2025-08-25

The Centre for East and Southeast Asian studies conducts research and teaching on Asia, and is looking for an intern. The successful candidate will contribute to both research and administration at the Centre and for the in-house journal, Asia in Focus. As part of their internship, the candidate will write an article, with feedback from researchers at the Centre, for submission to Asia in Focus (o

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Astrid Norén-Nilsson On 13 November, Astrid Norén-Nilsson participated in a seminar about the political situation in Cambodia co-organised by Stockholm University's Forum for Asian Studies. In the seminar, Dr Norén-Nilsson spoke alongside Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights. Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia, whilst

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-seminar-about-cambodia - 2025-08-25

The Asia Library The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with a focus on East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the spring 2019. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize a research seminar.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short Ph.D. project description (

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students-0 - 2025-08-25