Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from August 1999

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from August 1999

Hegemonic America: the arrogance of power.
August 1, 1999... The United States entered the twentieth century as the most powerful country in the world. It has retained this status throughout the century, although arguably the German occupation of Europe in the early 1940s provided a brief interruption....

China's ASEAN policy in the 1990s: pushing for regional multipolarity.(Association of South East Asian Nations)
August 1, 1999... Introduction Chinese leaders often refer to the important place of the Third World in their foreign policy. But in the actual implementation of their foreign policy, the focus has been on the handling of China's relations with the United...

Challenges facing ASEAN in a more complex age.(Association of South East Asian Nations)
August 1, 1999... Relations between members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took a dramatic turn in late 1998. The presidents of Indonesia and the Philippines criticized the Malaysian Government's treatment of former Deputy Prime Minister...

APEC and the WTO: which way forward for trade liberalization?(Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; World Trade Organization)
August 1, 1999... APEC's decision at its Kuala Lumpur leaders' meeting in November 1998 to refer its programme of "Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization" (EVSL) to the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed what skeptics had long asserted: APEC is not an...

Indonesia's role in ASEAN: the end of leadership?(Association of South East Asian Nations)
August 1, 1999... Introduction This article will examine Indonesia's role within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the light of the ongoing political and economic crisis that has afflicted Indonesia. To examine the role Indonesia seeks...

National security and Malay unity: the issue of radical religious elements in Malaysia.
August 1, 1999... Introduction Islamic revivalism and its possible effects on global security and culture have received considerable attention in recent years from many scholars. One such scholar is Anwar-il-Haq Ahady who has argued that religious...

Burma/Myanmar and the dilemmas of U.S. foreign policy.
August 1, 1999... Prologue Burma/Myanmar(1) presents problems - problems of analysis and even data. Statistics are often whimsical, events are sometimes opaque, the complexity of the past clouds our thinking, information is filtered through skewed political...

Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution: 1885-1954.(Review)
August 1, 1999... By Christopher E. Goscha. Richmond: Curzon, 1999, 418pp. During Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia in the 1980s, ASEAN rallied behind the front-line state of Thailand, which feared Vietnamese tanks would roll down (and eventually become...

China's Provinces in Reform: Class, Community, and Political Culture.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Edited by David S.G. Goodman. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 278 pp. This highly informative book is a long overdue antidote to the plethora of studies of China in transition, which adopt a macro-perspective of the post-Mao reform...

Dynamics in Pacific Asia: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Edited by Kurt W. Radtke, et al. London and New York: Kegan Paul International in association with the International Institute for Asian Studies, 1998. 287 pp. Written before the onset of the Asian economic crisis in July 1997, this edited...