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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18
Oct
Presenter: Prabhakar Singh (BML Munjal University) Pre-registration required.

23
Oct
Pre-registration required. The program consists of six different presentations and two Q&A sessions.

13
Nov
Johan Huizinga Gebouw (Doelensteeg 16, Leiden) Room 2.60 (second floor).
To be held at Leiden Institute for History.

14
Nov
Herta Mohr building (Witte Singel 27A Leiden) Room 0.10
To be held at Leiden University.

22
Nov
Presenter: Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds) Pre-registration required.

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