BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2026//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2026 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T065200 UID:euroseas-2026-elite-collusion-and-dynastic-succession-in-southeast-asia-1 SUMMARY:Elite Collusion and Dynastic Succession in Southeast Asia (1) LOCATION:Classroom B51 DESCRIPTION:Across Southeast Asia, political power is increasingly concentr ated through overlapping processes of elite collusion, dynastic succession, and the growing influence of business elites. Recent years have seen the e mergence of “promiscuous” power-sharing arrangements that cut across long-s tanding ideological, ethnic, religious, and regional cleavages, privileging elite accommodation over programmatic competition or democratic accountabi lity. From the marriage of convenience between Pakatan Harapan and United M alays National Organization that produced Malaysia’s Unity Government under Anwar Ibrahim in 2022, to the elite bargain enabling Thaksin Shinawatra’s return and Pheu Thai’s hold on power in Thailand, such arrangements reflect a broader regional pattern of elite accommodation rather than democratic c onsolidation. Similar dynamics are visible in Indonesia’s 2024 alliance bet ween Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo, the Philippines’ dynastic “UniTeam” alliance between Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte, and Cambodia’s care fully managed succession from Hun Sen to Hun Manet within the Cambodian Peo ple’s Party.\nAt the same time, these forms of elite collusion and dynastic power are deeply intertwined with the rising political influence of capita l. Business elites increasingly occupy political office, while politicians themselves often become business actors through privileged access to econom ic opportunities. Control over media outlets, campaign finance, and lobbyin g networks allows economic elites to exert disproportionate influence over policymaking, frequently at the expense of labour rights, environmental pro tection, and human rights. Rather than operating separately, dynastic succe ssion, elite bargaining, and business power often reinforce one another, pr oducing political systems in which electoral competition is hollowed out an d state authority is captured by interconnected political–economic elites.\ nThis panel brings together new research that examines these processes of e lite collusion comparatively across Southeast Asia. It asks: How and why ar e patterns of elite collusion changing? What conditions and strategies enab le economic elites and political families to consolidate power across diffe rent countries? Through which mechanisms do business and political elites s hape policy outcomes, and how do these dynamics interact with shifts in the regional and international political economy? By combining in-depth countr y studies with cross-national and quantitative approaches, the panel aims t o advance comparative analysis of elite power in Southeast Asia and to cont ribute to broader debates on oligarchy, democratic erosion, and the politic al economy of contemporary capitalism. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/elite-collusion-and-dynastic-succession-in-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T065200 UID:euroseas-2026-elite-collusion-and-dynastic-succession-in-southeast-asia-2 SUMMARY:Elite Collusion and Dynastic Succession in Southeast Asia (2) LOCATION:Classroom B51 DESCRIPTION:Across Southeast Asia, political power is increasingly concentr ated through overlapping processes of elite collusion, dynastic succession, and the growing influence of business elites. Recent years have seen the e mergence of “promiscuous” power-sharing arrangements that cut across long-s tanding ideological, ethnic, religious, and regional cleavages, privileging elite accommodation over programmatic competition or democratic accountabi lity. From the marriage of convenience between Pakatan Harapan and United M alays National Organization that produced Malaysia’s Unity Government under Anwar Ibrahim in 2022, to the elite bargain enabling Thaksin Shinawatra’s return and Pheu Thai’s hold on power in Thailand, such arrangements reflect a broader regional pattern of elite accommodation rather than democratic c onsolidation. Similar dynamics are visible in Indonesia’s 2024 alliance bet ween Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo, the Philippines’ dynastic “UniTeam” alliance between Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte, and Cambodia’s care fully managed succession from Hun Sen to Hun Manet within the Cambodian Peo ple’s Party.\nAt the same time, these forms of elite collusion and dynastic power are deeply intertwined with the rising political influence of capita l. Business elites increasingly occupy political office, while politicians themselves often become business actors through privileged access to econom ic opportunities. Control over media outlets, campaign finance, and lobbyin g networks allows economic elites to exert disproportionate influence over policymaking, frequently at the expense of labour rights, environmental pro tection, and human rights. Rather than operating separately, dynastic succe ssion, elite bargaining, and business power often reinforce one another, pr oducing political systems in which electoral competition is hollowed out an d state authority is captured by interconnected political–economic elites.\ nThis panel brings together new research that examines these processes of e lite collusion comparatively across Southeast Asia. It asks: How and why ar e patterns of elite collusion changing? What conditions and strategies enab le economic elites and political families to consolidate power across diffe rent countries? Through which mechanisms do business and political elites s hape policy outcomes, and how do these dynamics interact with shifts in the regional and international political economy? By combining in-depth countr y studies with cross-national and quantitative approaches, the panel aims t o advance comparative analysis of elite power in Southeast Asia and to cont ribute to broader debates on oligarchy, democratic erosion, and the politic al economy of contemporary capitalism. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/elite-collusion-and-dynastic-succession-in-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T133000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR