Christine CABASSET

Can you describe how the course(s) you teach are relevant in the current context?

In RULE, I’m teaching about Dynamics of Regional Integration EU ASEAN. This course is highly relevant taking into account the demographic and economic weight and the increasing diplomatic importance of ASEAN as a regional organization in the international arena. The course allows the students to know more about the past, the institutional building, the successes, the challenges and difficulties, and the prospects, of this prominent regional grouping. And also about the other member states and peoples. Concurrently, the interest (and medias news and coverage) has been recently renewed with two major events: the Myanmar crisis since 2021 as a great challenge for ASEAN; and the application, management and full endorsement (26^th Oct. 2025) of Timor-Leste as new member.

Can you tell us about your experience as a teacher for an international program in Cambodia? 

I have been collaborating with Uni Rennes2 about the dual master degree CREEA / Euro-Asian Trade and Economics – EATE since 2023, and my first experience as a teacher at RULE Phnom Penh was in 2025. Knowing and having been travelling in all the ASEAN countries and having tough in the past in some of them, notably Indonesia and Timor-Leste, I enjoyed both my time spent in Phnom Penh and my experience in teaching at RULE. Through this experience, I had a chance to know better the country and to reflect about its place and role within the regional grouping.

What do you like the most in teaching at RULE? 

I especially appreciated the friendly and well organized staff and infrastructures, as well as the good relations with students and the good location of the campus in Phnom Penh.

Do you have any recommendations for future students and graduates?

Know better the other ASEAN member states.

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