Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia

A research program in global diplomatic history

Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia is a collaborative research program in Global Diplomatic History financed by the Swedish Research Council and running from 2022 until the end of 2027.

A team of seven researchers based in Europe and Southeast Asia investigate the role of treaties and treaty-making in the imperial expansion and colonisation of Southeast Asia from the eighteenth to the early and twentieth century.

The researchers systematically analyse all bilateral treaties concluded between a European, American or Japanese imperial power and a Southeast Asian polity between the eighteenth and early twentieth century. In addition, a selected number of diplomatic treaty-making processes are studied in detail. In doing so, the project aims to bring about a new and more nuanced understanding modern imperialism of relevance not only to Southeast Asia but globally.

 

Treaty-making and imperial expansion in Southeast Asia; New special issue of Diplomatica

 Four new articles in the special issue of Diplomatica

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Conference Report: Voices of Resistance in and Against the Dutch Empire

11-13 September 2024
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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Presenter: Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds) Pre-registration required.

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