Southeast Asian Affairs 2002
Southeast Asian Affairs 2002

Author: Daljit Singh

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9789812301604

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This book is divided into two broad categories. There are those which provide an analysis of major developments during 2001 in individual Southeast Asian countries and in the region generally. Then there are the theme articles of a more specialized nature which deal with topical problems of concern. This volume contains twenty articles, dealing with such major themes as international conflict and co-operation, political stability, and economic growth and development.

Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community
Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community

Author: C. Rodolfo Severino

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9812303898

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Talking about ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the ASEAN Way, the accession of the new members, including Myanmar, the principle of non-interference, regional security, regional economic integration, the haze and SARS, and ASEAN's future.

Southeast Asian Affairs 2020
Southeast Asian Affairs 2020

Author: Malcolm Cook

Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9814881317

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Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary.

Malaysia
Malaysia

Author: Cheah Boon Kheng

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9789812301758

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Focuses on Malaysia's four Prime Ministers as nation-builders, observing that each one of them when he became Prime Minister was transformed from being the head of the Malay party, UMNO, to that of the leader of a multi-ethnic nation. Each began his political career as an exclusivist Malay nationalist but became an inclusivist.

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Security
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Security

Author: Derek Da Cunha

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9789812300980

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The conventional understanding of strategic issues in the modern world has been very much a Western-driven phenomenon. That is to say, Western strategists, thinkers and writers have tended to establish the principles of strategic concepts, and to develop theories around them. While there is utility in much Western strategic thought, it is also apt to note that some of it does not have full relevance or validity when applied to a regional setting that is far removed from the geographical boundaries of the Western world. In that connection, this volume is partly intended to serve as an antidote to much of the Western commentary on Asia-Pacific security issues by providing a range of perspectives on those issues from the Southeast Asian point of view. It offers a range of Southeast Asian perspectives on the multifaceted security issues that confront the Asia-Pacific region in the post-Cold War era. That there is no unitary perspective emanating from the region is symptomatic of the very fluid geopolitical situation that characterizes Asia-Pacific security, and, of equal import, the different schools of thought that analysts in the region have chosen to subscribe to.

Globalization in Southeast Asia
Globalization in Southeast Asia

Author: Shinji Yamashita

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781571812551

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The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Politics in Southeast Asia
Politics in Southeast Asia

Author: William Case

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1136871144

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This volume provides an introduction to the politics of the five key southeast Asian states - Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines - and is intended as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on this subject. Using a comparative politics and political economy perspective, the author focuses in particular on the degree of democracy in the five countries, arguing that in all the countries considered democracy is, to varying degrees, imperfect. The book synthesises a wide range of scholarship, and presents the material in a concise and accessible way.

Does ASEAN Matter?
Does ASEAN Matter?

Author: Marty Natalegawa

Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9814786748

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Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN’s quest for security and prosperity in a region marked by complex dynamics of power. Namely, the interplay of relations and interests among countries — large and small — which provide the settings within which ASEAN must deliver on its much-cited leadership and centrality in the region. The book seeks to answer the following questions: How can ASEAN build upon its past contributions to the peace, security and prosperity of Southeast Asia, to the wider East Asia, the Asia-Pacific and the Indo-Pacific regions? More fundamentally and a sine qua non, how can ASEAN continue to ensure that peace, security and prosperity prevail in Southeast Asia? And, equally central, how can ASEAN become more relevant to the peoples of ASEAN, such that its contributions can be genuinely felt in making better the lives of its citizens?

Southeast Asian Affairs 2003
Southeast Asian Affairs 2003

Author: Daljit Singh

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9812302174

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Southeast Asian Affairs, of which there are now thirty in the series, is an annual review of significant developments and trends in the region. The contributions can be divided into two braod categories. There are those which provide an analysis of major developments during 2002 in individual Southeast Asian countries and in the region generally. Then there are the theme articles of a more specialised nature which deal with topical problems of concern.

History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives
History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

Author: O. W. Wolters

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1501732609

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A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.