Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from December 2000

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from December 2000

The Strategic Significance of the Mekong.(Mekong River)
December 1, 2000... Despite its size, the Mekong River has not played a unifying role as have other great rivers such as the Nile in Egypt or the Yangtze in China. Flowing by or through six countries (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam), the...

China and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime.
December 1, 2000... This article surveys China's policy towards the nuclear non-proliferation regime and contests the view that China has now completed the transition from a challenger to an upholder of the global non-proliferation regime. It argues that "the...

U.S. Security Policy in Asia: Implications for China--U.S. Relations.
December 1, 2000... As the two major players in the Asia-Pacific region, China and the United States are increasingly in disagreement over security concepts and practices. In an era when Washington is trying to build a Pax Americana, Beijing feels strongly that...

Indonesia's Foreign Policy under Abdurrahman Wahid: Radical or Status Quo State? [1].
December 1, 2000... When Abdurrahman Wahid first came to power in Indonesia there was some alarm over the direction of Indonesia's foreign policy. However, the reality is that Abdurrahman's foreign policy has been more orthodox than some of his earlier rhetoric...

U.S.--Indonesian Relations During the Economic Crisis: Where Has Indonesia's Bargaining Power Gone?
December 1, 2000... The U.S.--Indonesian diplomatic "bargaining setting" has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. The changes in the structure of global power explain why, during the Asian economic crisis, the United States was able to wield...

Civil Society and Regional Security: Tensions and Potentials in Post-Crisis Southeast Asia.
December 1, 2000... This article delineates the areas where there might be same consonance between the dynamics underlying the present interest in Southeast Asia in the nation of civil society and those linked to the current reassessment of the discourse and...

The Financial Crisis of 1997--98 and the End of the Asian Developmental State.
December 1, 2000... Financial globalization in the 1990s effectively dismantled the Asian developmental state and forced East Asia to search for a new political economy model. The paradigm shift in world economic development from state-driven planning to...

Cambodia's International Rehabilitation, 1997-2000.
December 1, 2000... This article offers a historical analysis of Cambodia's recent three-year crisis of international legitimacy, provoked by the brief civil war in July 1997, and finally settled between November 1998 and mid-2000. Overwhelming international...

The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia. By Amitav Acharya. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2000. 169pp. Before I read this book, I did not think that yet another book about ASEAN and efforts at regional...

Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca. By Mark Cleary and Goh Kim Chuan. London: Routledge, 2000. 2l4pp. This study of the Straits of Malacca and the countries or parts of countries that abut on it invokes Fernard Braudel's...

China and the South Sea Dialogues.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... China and the South Sea Dialogues. By Lee Lai To. Westport and London: Praeger, 199g. 168pp. Stretching 1,800 miles from Sumatra to Taiwan, the South China Sea is larger than the Mediterranean and contains five zones of potential conflict,...

Malaysia's Political Economy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Malaysia's Political Economy. Politics, Patronage and Profits. By Edmund Terence Gomez and Jomo K. S. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (second edition). 228pp. Written by two eminent Malaysian scholars from the Faculty of...

Maintaining the Strategic Edge: The Defence of Australia in 2015.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Maintaining the Strategic Edge: The Defence of Australia in 2015. Edited by Desmond Ball. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 133. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1998. 445pp. This is...

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison. By David Chandler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 238pp. Anyone who visits Toul Sleng museum will undoubtedly be moved by the degree and scale of atrocities...