AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AS A TOOL OF POPULATION REDISTRIBUTION IN SOUTHEAST-ASIA

Throughout history and throughout most major regions of the world, the expansion of agricultural land has served as a tool of population red istribution and has also played a key role in the formation and consol idation of States. This appears particularly true in twentieth-century Southeast Asia, as can be observed from case studies of the Philippin es, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand developed in this article, and may contribute to the originality and dynamism of State formation in the region.