EVENT [RESOURCES]: CRISEA Final Conference – Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia: The Project and its Findings [Online, 22 February 2021]

On Monday, 22nd February 2021, Carl Middleton from Center for Social Development Studies, was one of the presenters for CRISEA Final Conference – Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia: The Project and its Findings. Carl presented the research on “Southeast Asia and China: Transnational Water Issues on the Mekong”.

Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia (CRISEA) is an interdisciplinary research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme that studies multiple forces affecting regional integration in Southeast Asia and the challenges they present to the peoples of Southeast Asia and its regional institutional framework, ASEAN.

You can watch the video of the conference on the link here.

EVENT [RESOURCES]: ARI E-Workshop on Transboundary Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia [Online, 4 December 2020]

On 4 December 2020, Carl Middleton from CSDS was invinted to present on an inter-disciplinary workshop on "Transboundary Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia", organized by The Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The workshop explored how, why, when and what forms of transboundary environmental governance are emerging in Southeast Asia.

Carl was one of the presenters on the fourth panel on Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons. Carl’s presentation was on “Beyond the Commons/Commodity Dichotomy in the Lancang-Mekong Basin: Implications for Transboundary Water Governance” and discussed the implications of hybrid governance perspective for recent hydropolitics in the river basin and existing and new transboundary water governance institutions, namely the Mekong River Commission and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework.

For more information about the workshop, please click here.

You can watch the video of the event here and please enter the passcode ARIWORK!123 to access. Carl’s presentation will start at 5:47:35.