Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from August 2003

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from August 2003

Funding terrorism in Southeast Asia: the financial network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya.
August 1, 2003... Introduction The war on terror has continued apace in Southeast Asia, and the governments in the region deserve credit for the arrests of some 150 Jemaah Islamiya (JI) members through April 2003. Several of the members of JI's regional...

Blood, sweat and jihad: the radicalization of the political discourse of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from 1982 onwards.
August 1, 2003... How Islamist politics in Malaysia leapt to a different register Kemenangan Islam tidak akan datang dengan sendirinya. Allah telah menentukan bahawa kejayaan dalam kehidupan dunia adalah hasil jihad yang berterusan. (1) Ustaz Yusof...

Understanding the Philippines' economy and politics since the return of democracy in 1986.
August 1, 2003... Introduction According to Stanley Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF "among the potential victims of the [Asian] crisis, the Philippines economy performed exceptionally". (1) Considering the turmoil of the events of 1986...

ASEAN Plus Three and the rise of reactionary regionalism.
August 1, 2003... Introduction It has become something of a cliche to observe that supposedly "global" processes are in fact marked by striking regional biases. While the economic and political manifestations of this phenomenon are most pronounced in the...

Conflation of piracy and terrorism in Southeast Asia: rectitude and utility.
August 1, 2003... Introduction In March 2003, the New York Times reported attacks on several chemical tankers in the Strait of Malacca region by assailants with automatic weapons. (1) Two of the ships were sprayed with bullets, while another was boarded...

Asia-Pacific perceptions of the financial crisis: lessons and affirmations.
August 1, 2003... Introduction The fact that the world over recent decades has seen a reduction in transaction costs and an increase in flows of goods, services, people and capital, is well established. (1) There is much less agreement, however, about the...

Sino-Japanese relations: implications for Southeast Asia.
August 1, 2003... Introduction China's post-Cold War relations with Japan have been largely stable. Yet this stability can hardly disguise the uneasiness in that relationship. Domestically, according to a latest public opinion poll conducted by the...

Coping with Globalization: Cross-National Patterns in Domestic Governance and Policy Performance.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Steve Chan and James R. Scarritt. London and Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 2002. 216pp. This edited volume is a welcome contribution to the debate on the impact of globalization on states. One of the primary aims of its editors...

ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Jurgen Haacke. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. 198 pp. Of late, it has become fashionable to dismiss ASEAN and its core normative and behavioural framework known as the ASEAN Way. Scholars who once recognized and praised...

Power in a Philippine City.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Takeshi Kawanaka. Chiba, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, 2002. 118pp. Scholarship on local politics in the Philippines has been dominated for a long time by society-centred perspectives which...

Globalization and Democratization in Asia: the Construction of Identity.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jonsson. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. 276pp. What is the relationship between globalization and democracy? For the most part the chapters in this book are concerned to explore the argument...