Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from December 2005

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from December 2005

Delegitimizing global jihadi ideology in Southeast Asia.
December 1, 2005... Introduction On 9 September 2004, two days away from the third anniversary of the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks in New York and Washington, DC, a terrorist bomb went off just outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. Nine people were...

Non-official diplomacy in Southeast Asia: "civil society" or "civil service"?
December 1, 2005... Introduction Over a decade has passed since the phenomenon of non-official diplomacy emerged as a notable theme in the international affairs of Southeast Asia. (1) The emergence of unofficial diplomats from epistemic communities as well as...

Transforming the strategic landscape of Southeast Asia.
December 1, 2005... Introduction For too long, the study of Southeast Asian arms acquisitions has been asking the wrong question--whether or not there is a regional arms race. The typical regional answer, whether from policy-makers or analysts, has been a...

Democracy in Cambodia--one decade, US$5 billion later: what went wrong?
December 1, 2005... Introduction: Great Expectations After more than two decades of civil war, the opposing factions in Cambodia concluded in October 1991 the Paris peace accords, four separate but related agreements. One of those pacts, the "Agreement on a...

The management of Vietnam's border disputes: what impact on its sovereignty and regional integration?
December 1, 2005... Introduction Vietnam's border disputes can be studied from various perspectives; this study focuses on the current status of the disputes, that is, whether the disputes are settled or not. Since some of the border disputes have been...

Politics in command: the case of the US proposal for an FTA with the Philippines.(free trade agreement)
December 1, 2005... Introduction On 11 March 2002 Senator Richard Lugar presented to the United States Congress Senate Bill 2004. The bill authorizes the American President to negotiate and conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Republic of the...

Challenges of globalization: Malaysia and India engagement.
December 1, 2005... Introduction India is not a major player in the global trading system because its share of total global trade is less than 1 per cent. Nonetheless, India's population base of over 1.07 billion and an expanding middle class of around 300...

Cultural commodities and regionalization in East Asia.
December 1, 2005... Introduction Regional formation ideas and theories have existed before and throughout the twentieth century. (1) However, it was only after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of its bipolarized world system that ideas of regional...

My Side of History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... My Side of History. By Chin Peng. Singapore: Media Masters, 2003. Softcover: 527pp. For those growing up in Malaysia and Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s, the Chin Peng name was congruent with dogged frightful terror and for some, a heroic...

Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Edited by Maribeth Erb, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto, and Carole Faucher. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Hardcover: 234pp. Indonesia is currently attempting to redistribute political power...

State and Society in the Philippines.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... State and Society in the Philippines. By Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso. New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. Softcover: 351pp. One could mistake this volume simply as a history textbook about the...

International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy. By Donald E. Weatherbee et al. Oxford, UK: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. Softcover: 306pp. In the preface of this volume, the principal author, Donald...

India Briefing: Takeoff at Last?(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? Edited by Alyssa Ayres and Philip Oldenburg. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Softcover: 285pp. "India Rising" has been the constant refrain in the global academic, policy, and strategic communities. The...

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History. Edited by Norman G. Owen. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Softcover: 541pp. This is the best introductory text on Southeast Asian History that the reviewer had come...