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PON SOUVANNASENG

Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Bentley University

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February 16, 2022

Asian Perspective Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2022

My article, ‘Liquidated:  US/Japan-China Rivalry, Financial Crisis, & Hydro-Finance Regimes in the Mekong’ is out in the current issue of Asian Perspective 46 (1).  Many..
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February 14, 2022

Wilson China Fellowship Conference panel

Catch myself and wonderful Wilson China Fellows who specialize in research on Southeast Asia at our Wilson China Fellowship Conference panel!  Tune in Wednesday, 16..
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January 21, 2022

Great news in the new year!

My research proposal for developing an on-going project and new directions in research has now received funding from the Bentley Research Council through early 2023. ..
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December 7, 2021

Bentley Faculty Affairs Council

Fantastic news, my application for a Bentley Faculty Affairs Council grant was successful.  Exciting new directions in research underway, watch this space! CategoriesNews
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December 3, 2021

Voice of America: Lao-China Railway

The Voice of America has a piece out on the inauguration of the Lao-China railway with some quotes from me, accessible here. CategoriesNews
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December 2, 2021

Foreign Correspondents’ Club

You can catch me on the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand’s Facebook Live on a panel discussing the inauguration of the Laos-China railway at 7am..
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November 20, 2021

Bentley Magazine

There’s a kind welcome piece about me and my teaching in this season’s Bentley Magazine. CategoriesNews
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November 10, 2021

Bentley Faculty Affairs Committee Research Grant

Kicking off the Thanksgiving mini-break with some exciting news, I have won a Bentley Faculty Affairs Committee Research grant to conduct a new line of..
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October 10, 2021

Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars

Grateful to be able to participate in the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars retreat in Montana this past weekend with brilliant peers and mentors! CategoriesNews
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October 3, 2021

APSA 2021

Catch me on two APSA 2021 panels on Disaster and Risk, where I’ll be presenting a paper on “Disaster by Design: Submerged Stakeholders & the..
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July 2, 2021

SASE 2021 Panel Discussion

Started the holiday weekend off with an invigorating SASE 2021 panel discussion about cadres, capitalism and contemporary investment in the post-communist periphery.  Stay tuned for..
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April 28, 2021

Spring 2021 Webinar on Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence

Michigan State University, UH CSEAS, the Luce Foundation and East West Center hosted their fourth Spring 2021 Webinar on Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics..
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April 14, 2021

Twenty-First-Century Chinese-African Hydropower Projects in Perspective

The Export-Import Bank of China provided a $562 million loan to finance construction of the Bui Dam, on the Black Volka River in Ghana. The..
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April 7, 2021

Competing Powers & Southeast Asian Energy Futures

One year in the making, catch our ISA 2021 panel on ‘Competing Powers & Southeast Asian Energy Futures’ (WC41) at 11am EST. CategoriesNews
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April 2, 2021

The Mekong, China, & Southeast Asian Transitions Series

Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence Wednesday, April 28, 2021: 02:00 PM (HST) In recent decades, people living in the Lower Mekong Region..
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Remarks in Reuters Special Report on Africa’s Debt Bomb

"The episode shows how developing countries are stuck between two undesirable options for development financing, Souvannaseng said. With long-term, low-cost multilateral lenders like the World Bank, she said, the “the bureaucratic process … to get money — it’s long, it’s tedious, a lot of them find it very humiliating.” But the “high risk, high reward” international bond market, while a quick source of money, “is first and foremost concerned with yield, not with developmental aims,” she said."
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Pacific Affairs Article Now Out

My article manuscript, ‘Fast Finance & the Political Economy of Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Lao PDR’ is now out in Pacific Affairs Vol. 97, Issue..
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Quoted in CNN Article on Lao-China Rail

I was recently quoted in a CNN article on the Chinese built Lao railway, accessible here: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/25/travel/china-south-east-asia-travel-train-infrastructure-intl-hnk CategoriesNews
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