Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from December 2002

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from December 2002

Tentacles of terror: Al Qaeda's Southeast Asian network.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The horrors of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the ensuing war on terrorism galvanized the global community to come to terms with the reality of international terrorism. While the focus of the...

Transition pathways and democratic consolidation in post-Marcos Philippines.
December 1, 2002... Introduction Sixteen years after the restoration of formal democratic rule in the Philippines with the fall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, the country faces a difficult and contentious process of democratic consolidation. The country...

Anti-party reaction in Indonesia: causes and implications.
December 1, 2002... Introduction Facing impeachment in 2001, Abdurrahman Wahid bemoaned that, all other avenues exhausted in an attempt to save his presidency, he was "lodging a protest with God" against the injustice with which he had been treated. (1) For...

Human security in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The two or three years which followed the 1997-98 economic and political turmoil in Southeast Asia were marked by anxiety by governments and populations alike. Now, however, the climate in the region is much more defined by a...

Partnership for peace in Asia: ASEAN, the ARF, and the United Nations.
December 1, 2002... Introduction There has been renewed attention on regionalism and a reconsideration of the security role of regional security organizations since the end of the Cold War. Several factors account for this new enthusiasm. Among them is the...

China's expanding maritime ambitions in the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
December 1, 2002... Introduction Chinese leaders have long aspired to a great China, a country with a world-class economy and military, and with the restoration of full sovereignty over Taiwan and other disputed islands within its claimed territorial...

The clash of paradigms: international administration and local political legitimacy in East Timor.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The paradigm of international intervention to rebuild states that have failed, or to build them where they have not existed, constitutes the Westphalian model with governing institutions developed as a result of European...

Australia's peacekeeping role in the post-Cold War era.
December 1, 2002... Introduction In the post-COLD WAR era, "expanded peacekeeping" has become an important feature of international politics. This is set out under Chapter VII of the United Nations (UN) Charter, which states that intervening forces are...

Pacific Asia? Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Pacific Asia? Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia. By Mel Gurtov. New York: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 259pp. The main title of this packed and densely footnoted but still very readable book ends with a...

The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Edited by Robert W. Hefner. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. 319pp. Southeast Asia has long been noted for its ethnic...

Fear and Sanctuary: Burmese Refugees in Thailand. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Fear and Sanctuary: Burmese Refugees in Thailand. By Hazel J. Lang. Ithaca, New York, USA: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002. 240 pp. Despite a 1995 ceasefire agreement between Burma's...

Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by D.R. Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas. New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 312pp. This book is an attempt to reassess India's nuclear weapons programme from a strategic, political,...