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Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from August 2006
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Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from August 2006
Singaporean exceptionalism and its implications for ASEAN regionalism.(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
August 1, 2006... Singapore is an odd country. It is a city-state in a world of nation-states (Kwa 2002; Low 2002). It is in Southeast Asia but not, some might say, of Southeast Asia. Singaporean national identity, according to at least one prominent Singaporean...
Buying an income: the market for civil service positions in Indonesia.
August 1, 2006... Indonesia has recently gone through a dramatic process of democratization, decentralization, and privatization. The fight against corruption has been an important element in the restructuring of society, at least as declared. Demands for law...
Vietnam's ASEAN membership revisited: golden opportunity or golden cage?
August 1, 2006... In early 1991 I conducted a series of interviews in Jakarta with senior government officials and scholars on their perception of Indonesia's role in ASEAN. This was the twilight period between the end of the Cold War and an emerging new...
Japan, ASEAN, and the construction of an East Asian Community.(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
August 1, 2006... Japan-ASEAN relations have been one of ambivalence. Perceptions differ among the elites and the ordinary folk of the different ASEAN states, ranging from animosity to pragmatic tolerance to admiration of the Japanese economic success. On the...
Russia and Southeast Asia: a new relationship.
August 1, 2006... Introduction: The Immediate Post-Soviet Period
ASEAN leaders conceived of a post-Cold War regional order that would engage an emerging China while preventing Sino-Japanese conflict and locking in the United States. In this security...
India and Southeast Asia in the age of terror: building partnerships for peace.
August 1, 2006... In Asia the post-Cold War security discourse revolved mainly around concerns about a rising China, dangers of war in persisting regional flashpoints such as the Koreas, Taiwan, and Kashmir, among others. Many nations in the region also had to...
Southeast Asian perceptions of Australia's foreign policy.
August 1, 2006... Australia's Asia-Pacific regional security policy has traditionally seen a balancing between two competing policy approaches, one of seeking protection from threats in the region by "great and powerful friends" and the other of greater...
Ousted! An Insider's Story of the Ties That Failed to Bind.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Ousted! An Insider's Story of the Ties That Failed to Bind. By Patrick Keith. Singapore: Media Masters, 2005. Softcover: 198pp.
This book is about the separation of Singapore and Malaysia from an insider who felt it was time to unshackle...
Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia.
August 1, 2006... Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia. By Meredith L. Weiss. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Softcover: 324pp.
Academic works on the role of the opposition in Malaysian...
Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. By Ronald Bruce St John. New York: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover: 282pp.
The author of the book, Ronald Bruce St John has for a long time been studying and...
The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy. By David T. Hill and Khrisna Sen. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Hardcover: 204pp.
One day in February 1998, during the reformasi movement which demanded President Soeharto to step down,...
A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium. By Peter J. Katzenstein. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Softcover: 297pp.
This book is not for the faint-hearted or, indeed, for the thin-skinned. If the...
Globalization and Economic Security in East Asia.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Globalization and Economic Security in East Asia. Edited by Helen E.S. Nesadurai. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover: 262pp.
Economic security is an issue that scholars and policy-makers have been dealing with for centuries....