Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from April 1999

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from April 1999

Realism, institutionalism, and the Asian economic crisis.
April 1, 1999... Introduction The economic crisis in Asia has created a deep sense of gloom about the prospects for order and stability in the region. Most assessments of its political and security implications tend to be pessimistic.(2) In April 1998, a...

ASEAN, Quo Vadis? Domestic coalitions and regional co-operation.(Assn of South East Asian Nations; Asian cooperation)
April 1, 1999... Introduction In 1967 Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines signed the ASEAN Declaration, but the convening of the first summit meeting of heads of state was held only in 1976 (Bali), when they adopted the Concord...

The Asian crisis and the adequacy of regional institutions.
April 1, 1999... The weight of scholarly and official opinion on what measures will best promote an East Asian recovery from the financial crisis advocates reform either at the national or the global level. Those who find the major causes of the crisis in...

Flexibility or irrelevance: ways forward for the ARF.(ASEAN Regional Forum)
April 1, 1999... The Evolving Security Environment Whether "ripe for rivalry" or simply witnessing the ripening of divergent national viewpoints, the Asia-Pacific will undergo potentially dramatic and unpredictable developments in the coming decades. The...

Creeping assertiveness: China, the Philippines and the South China Sea dispute.
April 1, 1999... Introduction The unresolved territorial disputes between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Philippines in the South China Sea have highlighted emerging trends and raised important issues pertaining to the security and stability...

Environmental pollution around the South China Sea: developing a regional response.
April 1, 1999... What are the countries around the South China Sea doing about their growing problems of regional environmental pollution? This article provides a case study of how the member-nations of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) are...

Vietnam: Anatomy of Peace.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Gabriel Kolko. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 190 pp. Gabriel Kolko made an important contribution to the study of the Vietnam War in an earlier book on the subject. With this new book, Kolko makes an equally important...

Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Jonathan Rigg. London: Routledge, 1997. 326 pp. This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on modernization and development, written from the perspective of a human geographer, but it contains exactly the sort of...

Regional Maritime Management and Security.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Sam Bateman and Stephen Bates. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1998. 209 pp. This monograph is the outcome of the Third Meeting of the CSCAP's (the Council for Security Co-operation...

Oil and the lack of it in the South China Sea.(includes reply)(response to article by Ian Townsend-Gault, Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol 20, no 2, Aug 1998)
April 1, 1999... In the article by Ian Townsend-Gault, "Preventive Diplomacy and ProActivity in the South China Sea" (Contemporary Southeast Asia 20, No. 2, August 1998), a number of assertions are made, which we would like to respond to. We and our work,...