Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from April 2001

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from April 2001

IN MEMORIAM: Michael Leifer, 1933-2001.(Obituary)
April 1, 2001... It is only the second time in the twenty-three-year history of this journal that we carry an obituary. The last time was in March 1993, when we recorded the untimely death of Professor Kernial S. Sandhu, the then Director of the Institute of...

Singapore's Foreign Economic Policy: The Pursuit of Economic Security.
April 1, 2001... Singapore has maintained one of the most effective foreign economic policies (FEP) of any small state, with the city-state's proactivity in the domain of economic diplomacy demonstrated at multiple levels. This article contends that Singapore's...

Globalization and Democratic Development in Thailand: The New Path of the Military, Private Sector, and Civil Society.
April 1, 2001... This article examines the interrelationship between globalization and democratic development by studying three of the main actors in the Thai political economy: the military, the private sector, and civil society. The article examines how their...

Political Development and the Re-emergence of Civil Society in Cambodia.
April 1, 2001... Since the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia organized multi-party elections in 1993, there had been a gradual shift away from various authoritarian forms of government towards limited political development. Setbacks in this...

The Dual Narrative of "Good Governance": Lessons for Understanding Political and Cultural Change in Malaysia and Singapore.
April 1, 2001... The narrative of good governance has become particularly relevant in understanding political and cultural change in Malaysia and Singapore. This study shows that the narrative of good governance is a double-edged sword -- that is, it can be...

Australia and Asia-Pacific Security Regionalism: From Hawke and Keating to Howard.(Robert Hawke)(Paul Keating)(Howard, John)
April 1, 2001... Both the Hawke and Keating Labor governments (1983-96) gave some attention to the development of Asia-Pacific "security regionalism" as a means of strengthening the regional focus in Australia's security policies. While the rhetoric has...

The End of a Cycle: Australian and Portuguese Foreign Policies and the Fate of East Timor.
April 1, 2001... Before 30 August 1999, East Tim or had been for a long time an unfinished issue on the international agenda. This situation resulted from Indonesia's decision in December 1975 to proceed with a military and political incorporation without an...

Chen Shui-bian and Cross-Strait Relations.
April 1, 2001... This article discusses Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's China policy and the impact this has on the cross-strait relationship. Chen is unlikely to deviate from the pro-independence stand of the Democratic and Progressive Party (DPP). For the...

The Bush Administration and Changing Geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific Region.
April 1, 2001... The new U.S. Administration, under President George W. Bush, will face opportunities and challenges in re-orienting U.S. diplomacy according to some new concepts its officials espouse. The East Asia-Pacific region is still in transition from a...

Interpreting China's Grand Strategy, Past, Present and Future. By Michael D. Swaine and Ashley J. Tellis.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Interpreting China's Grand Strategy, Past, Present and Future. By Michael D. Swaine and Ashley J. Tellis. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2000. 283pp. Has China a grand strategy for its national security? If yes, what is it? Does Chinese...

Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance. Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance. Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 249pp. China has been registering consistently high economic growth since the late 1970s. The social...

Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. Edited by Thomas Engelbert and Andreas Schneider.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. Edited by Thomas Engelbert and Andreas Schneider. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. 194pp. Professor Hans Dieter Kubitscheck is most deserving of a festschrift, and his colleagues,...

Asian Nationalism. Edited by Michael Leifer.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Asian Nationalism. Edited by Michael Leifer. London: Routledge, 2000. 203pp. The ten chapters in this book are revised versions of papers presented in the first seminar series held at the newly established Asia Research Centre, London...

Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization with Vietnam. By Richard H. Solomon.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization with Vietnam. By Richard H. Solomon. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. 116pp. If Cambodia's precarious "peace" were represented in...

Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. By Juan J. Linz.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. By Juan J. Linz. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 343pp. Juan Linz, Sterling Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University, wrote the section on totalitarian and...