Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from August 2000

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from August 2000

East Asia: Prospects for the New Decade.
August 1, 2000... An analysis of contemporary dynamics of change within East Asia, cast in terms of the resources of the classical European tradition of social theorizing, suggests that three intermeshing logics of change are shaping the fundamental structural...

ASEAN's Relations with Major External Powers.
August 1, 2000... The international relations of Southeast Asia has traditionally been determined by external powers. During the Cold War until the conclusion of the Second Indochina War in 1975, the United States had overwhelming influence on the ASEAN states....

ASEAN as a "Neighbourhood Watch Group".
August 1, 2000... The Secretary-General of A SEAN, Rodolfo Severino, had said that the organization "has to be measured against the purposes that it has set for itself and the limitation that it has imposed upon itself". This article argues that A SEAN'S core...

The Reform of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
August 1, 2000... Indonesia's armed forces have played a dominant role in domestic politics from 1957 under their so-called "dual function". While the armed forces consolidated in the early Soeharto period, a significant faction later came to challenge his...

Tokyo's Dynamic Diplomacy: Japan and the Subcontinent's Nuclear Tests.
August 1, 2000... Among Japan's recent international initiatives, its responses to India's and Pakistan's nuclear tests have been largely overlooked. Major Japanese diplomatic initiatives in the wake of these tests included promoting nuclear non-proliferation...

The Politics of Privatization in the Malaysian Health Care System.
August 1, 2000... Despite a strong commitment, for both ideological and pragmatic reasons, to the privatization of state enterprises and services, and pronouncements that public health care services would be privatized, the Malaysian Government has introduced...

The Political Economy of Vietnam's Transformation Process.
August 1, 2000... Reforms started by Vietnam in 1986 are far from complete. As a result of a slowdown in economic growth, growing unemployment, and social unrest, Vietnam faces renewed challenges for further reform. With doi moi (renovation) there has been...

New Zealand and Asia-Pacific Security: New Rationales for Engagement?
August 1, 2000... Throughout the 1990s, New Zealand maintained a commitment to Asia-Pacific security as one of the three pillars of a broadly based defence policy. However, Wellington tended to define its regional security goals in very general terms, making few...

The U.S.--Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The U.S.--Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Michael J. Green and Patrick M: Cronin. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1999. 4O3pp. During the Cold War, the U.S.--Japan alliance was a touchstone of America's...

Rethinking Geopolitics.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Rethinking Geopolitics. Edited by Gearoid O. Tuathail and Simon Dalby. Routledge: London and New York, 1998. This book begins with a fundamental question: "Is geopolitics dead?" The authors seem to say "yes", but the average reader will...

Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond. Edited by Ken Booth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 358pp. This book, written from a liberal perspective of international relations, seeks to identify a way out of the Cold War...

Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996-98.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996-98. By Stefan Eklof. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1999. 272pp. When Soeharto abruptly resigned from the presidential office and passed the sceptre to B. J....

Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective. By Dang Phong and Melanie Beresford. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1998. 117pp. On 2 September 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's...