Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from April 2000

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from April 2000

The Emergence of an Independent East Timor: National and Regional Challenges.
April 1, 2000... For a generation, the East Timorese independence struggle was ignored by Southeast Asian nations and by Australia. However, Indonesia's annexation never gained full international recognition, and with the failure to win the allegiance of the...

Malaysia's Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization?
April 1, 2000... Malaysian politics have been in upheaval since Dr Mahathir Mohamad sacked his deputy; Anwar Ibrahim, in September 1998. That made the 1999 elections one of the most keenly contested ever. For the first time, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN)...

ASEAN and Non-interference: A Principle Maintained.(Association of South East Asian Nations)
April 1, 2000... ASEAN leaders have maintained their traditional respect for the principle of non-interference in the affairs of states, despite predictions to the contrary as human rights issues have come to the fore in Southeast Asia's politics. Calls for...

Insights from ASEAN's Foreign Policy Co-operation: The "ASEAN Way", a Real Spirit or a Phantom?(Association of South East Asian Nations)
April 1, 2000... Notwithstanding substantial criticism over the past two years, ASEAN is regarded as a paragon case of successful regional co-operation. This article seeks to contribute to the debate about the nature of ASEAN's co-operation. Have ASEAN members...

ASEM: Looking Back, Looking Forward.(Asia-Europe Meeting)
April 1, 2000... The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is a forum and a process involving the fifteen EU member states and the Commission, and ten East Asian countries. It is a product of the emergence of East Asia as an economic powerhouse in the 1990s, and the...

Indonesia's China Policy in the New Order and Beyond: Problems and Prospects.
April 1, 2000... This article examines Indonesia's perceptions and policies towards China during the New Order era (1965-99) and the prospects for bilateral relations in the post-New Order period. For the first two decades of President Soeharto's rule,...

The Australia--Japan Partnership in the Asia-Pacific: From Economic Diplomacy to Security Co-operation?
April 1, 2000... Australia and Japan have been acclaimed as taking joint initiatives in establishing regional economic institutions such as the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council and the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum. This article seeks to...

Vietnam's Objective in the South China Sea: National or Regional Security?
April 1, 2000... Vietnam's interests in the South China Sea may be divided into traditional national security interests, and interests linked to the broader category of human security. This article examines Vietnam's policy in the South China Sea and its use of...

ASEM: The Asia-Europe Meeting -- A Window of Opportunity.(Review)
April 1, 2000... ASEM: The Asia-Europe Meeting -- A Window of Opportunity. Edited by Wim Stokhof and Paul van der Velde. London: Kegan Paul International in association with the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden and Amsterdam, 1999. l79pp. ...

Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy. By Etel Solingen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 334pp. This highly theoretical work seeks to examine the nature of global politics at the...

Security Communities.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Security Communities. Edited by Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 462pp. Security Communities is the most recent example of what might be called the growing "back to the future" trend in...

Vietnam: The Incomplete Transformation.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Vietnam: The Incomplete Transformation. By Peter Wolff. German Development Institute Book Series No.12. Berlin, London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999. 137pp. These days, a likely consensus among Vietnam watchers would be that nothing much is...