Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from December 2001

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from December 2001

Asian perceptions of BMD: Defence or disequilibrium?(US ballistic missile defense)
December 1, 2001... ********** As geopolitical competition between the United States and China intensifies, East Asian policy-makers are apprehensive about the Bush Administration's plans to develop ballistic missile defence (BMD). Missile defence threatens...

Security and sovereignty in the Asia-Pacific.
December 1, 2001... ********** Security and state sovereignty need to be understood as two sides of the same coin. Without security, state sovereignty cannot be realized and vice versa. Security and state sovereignty are part of the global understandings,...

Sino-ASEAN relations in the early twenty-first century.
December 1, 2001... ********** This article examines Sino-ASEAN relations in the early twenty-first century through a study of the role of ASEAN and China in their respective foreign policy frameworks. The interests of the United States and Japan in the...

Cam Ranh bay: Past imperfect, future conditional.
December 1, 2001... ********** This article reviews the likely future of Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam in the light of the announcement on 17 October 2001 that Russia will withdraw the last of its military forces in early 2002. Cam Ranh hosts a deep-water port...

The Islamic state or the state of Islam in Malaysia.
December 1, 2001... ********** The issue of the Islamic state has been at the forefront of Malaysian public discourse, but even more so since the announcement by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in September 2001 that Malaysia was already an Islamic state. The...

Desecuritizing the water issue in Singapore--Malaysia relations.
December 1, 2001... ********** A number of scholars have argued that water may be a determining factor sparking armed conflict between Singapore and Malaysia. They highlight Singapore's dependence on Malaysia for half of its water needs (a supply guaranteed...

The politics of a divided party and Parkinson's State in Vietnam.
December 1, 2001... ********** The two most important domestic political events in Vietnam in 2001, the Ninth Party National Congress and the Central Highlands unrest, reveal to observers a divided Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), and a Parkinson's diseased...

Australia's commitment in East Timor: A review article.('East Timor in Transition 1998-2000,' 'A Dirty Little War,' 'Mission Accomplished, East Timor')
December 1, 2001... ********** East Timor in Transition 1998-2000. An Australian Policy Challenge. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001. 312pp. A Dirty Little War. By John Martinkus. Sydney:...

Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations.
December 1, 2001... Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations. By Duncan McCargo. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 205pp. This volume is an important and welcome addition to the paucity of literature on the Thai media. Focusing on major...

Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand.
December 1, 2001... Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand. By Daniel Arghiros. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon, 2001. 308pp. During the past decade, the consolidation of liberal democracy in Thailand has witnessed the emergence of...

Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia.
December 1, 2001... Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia. Edited by Benedict R.O'G. Anderson. New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2001. 247pp. For those who view Soeharto's personalized authoritarian regime, heavily...

Burma: Political Economy Under Military Rule.
December 1, 2001... Burma: Political Economy Under Military Rule. Edited by Robert H. Taylor. London: Hurst & Co., 2001. 168pp. In July 1988, one month before Burma descended into anarchy, a group of specialists convened a seminar in Bonn to assess the...

Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order.
December 1, 2001... Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order. By Amitav Acharya. London: Routledge, 2001. 256pp. Among scholars writing on the interface between international relations theory and Asian...

The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State.
December 1, 2001... The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State. Edited by Xiaoming Huang. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 2001. 281pp. The vicissitudes of the Asian financial crisis, which over the past four years...