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Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from April 2004
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Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from April 2004
Malaysia's national security: rhetoric and substance.
April 1, 2004... Introduction
Security is an ambiguous concept. It has different meanings for different people, including decision-makers who formulate national policies. (1) Thus, the question "What is national security?" opens the floodgates of...
Thaksin and the politics of domestic and regional consolidation in Thailand.
April 1, 2004... Introduction: Thai Politics and Foreign Policy (1988-2001)
Chatichai Choonhavan's election and subsequent appointment as Prime Minister of Thailand in August 1988 marked a major turning point in Thai domestic politics and foreign policy....
Post-crisis restructuring: foreign ownership, corporate resistance and economic nationalism in Thailand.
April 1, 2004... Introduction
The IMF prescriptions attached to the rescue loans agreed with Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand during 1997 involved substantial and immediate liberalization, particular]y of controls over foreign ownership, reform of...
Minding the gaps: the Bush administration and U.S.-Southeast Asia relations.
April 1, 2004... Introduction: The Implications of Initial Bush Administration Policies for U.S.-Southeast Asia Relations
Bold foreign and security policy pronouncements and actions by the incoming U.S. administration, the subsequent terrorist attacks on...
Australia's strategic identity post-September 11 in context: implications for the war against terror in Southeast Asia.
April 1, 2004... Introduction: Factors that Shape Australia's National Identity and Strategic Posture
The national character and demographic composition of Australia is central to understanding the nation and, by extension, its strategic posture. (1)...
Southeast Asia and China: the role of history and culture in shaping future relations.
April 1, 2004... Introduction: China's Regional Ambitions
China has strategic interests and goals that it is determined to pursue, even in the face of U.S. opposition. (1) These are summed up in the two phrases that recur again and again in discussions with...
Forging an ASEAN identity: the challenge to construct a shared destiny.
April 1, 2004... Introduction: An Evolving Regional Identity
In the last two decades, the world has seen the deepening of regional integration agreements among nations. The European Union, the most successful case of regional integration, has succeeded in...
Indonesia's non-state actors in ASEAN: a new regionalism agenda for Southeast Asia?
April 1, 2004... Introduction
Since its inception in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has experienced both major achievements and setbacks. Its agenda of regional integration has been expanded to embrace wider issues, ranging from...
Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror. By Zachary Abuza. Boulder, Colorado, USA & London: Lynne Rienner, 2002. 279pp.
The terrorist attacks on the Indonesian island resort of Ball on 12 October 2002 confirmed that Southeast...
Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: the ASEAN Free Trade Area.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area. By Helen E.S. Nesadurai. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. 226 pp.
Published as a doctoral dissertation completed in 2001, this book is not only unique in its...
Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia. Edited by Ariel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 247pp.
This is a very thoughtful collection of essays that seeks to...
Reforming Thai Politics.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Reforming Thai Politics. Edited by Duncan McCargo. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), 2002. Softcover: 291pp.
This is yet another useful book about the post-1997 reform politics in Thailand, a theme that has...
Whither Free Trade Agreements? Proliferation, Evaluation and Multilateralism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Whither Free Trade Agreements? Proliferation, Evaluation and Multilateralism. Edited by Jiro Okamoto. Chiba, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO, 2003. 414pp.
Free trade agreements (FTAs) are too important to be left to...
The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization. Edited by Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen, and Tan Tai Yong, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003. 358pp.
In the present era of postcolonial studies and...