Contemporary Southeast Asia articles from December 2006

Contemporary Southeast Asia archives from December 2006

Singapore's climate change policy: the limits of learning.(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction Until 2005, Singapore completely rejected the possibility of adopting the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC), which is the only international instrument that commits parties...

How committed is PAS to democracy and how do we know it?(Islamic Party of Malaysia)(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction During the 1980s, the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (Islamic Party of Malaysia, PAS) deepened its religious hue. However, even as PAS dedicated itself expressly to the formation of an Islamic state, it continued to contest elections....

The December 2005 Pengkalan Pasir by-election in Kelantan, Malaysia: an election with a difference.(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction A by-election is held to fill a vacancy in a legislature caused by the death or resignation of the incumbent. It is "a fresh vote with a fresh slate of candidates and an opportunity for voters to behave differently than at the...

Indo-Myanmar relations in the era of pipeline diplomacy.(Author abstract)(Report)
December 1, 2006... Mainland Southeast Asia is a region sandwiched between two of Asia's largest and greatest powers--India and China. (1) The changing relationships between the individual Southeast Asian states and the two hegemons are especially interesting in...

China, the United States, and mainland Southeast Asia: opportunism and the limits of power.(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction Chinese and American policies toward mainland Southeast Asia, while not at the competitive or ideological levels of the Cold War era, show interesting and complicated aspects while periodically tending toward zero-sum outcomes...

Resource issues and ocean governance in Asia Pacific: an Indonesian perspective.(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction The Asia-Pacific region has often been described in superlative terms. On the Asian side of the Pacific Rim alone can be found the world most populous nation with the fastest growing economy (China), the world second most...

Institutional arrangements to counter human trafficking in the Asia Pacific.(Report)
December 1, 2006... Introduction As globalization has taken hold, an increasing number of people have begun to move across national borders: to live, to work, or for pleasure. Within regions this process is intensified as shorter distances, lower costs and...

A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in Thai-Burmese Relations.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in Thai-Burmese Relations. By Pavin Chachavalpongpun. New York: University Press of America, 2005. Softcover: 188pp. This is a rather interesting book in that it examines the impact of distorted...

Indonesia: The Great Transition.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Indonesia: The Great Transition. Edited by John Bresnan. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. Softcover: 318pp. This book is an ambitious academic volume written by a group of Indonesianists based in the United...

Vietnam's Development Strategies.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Vietnam's Development Strategies. By Pietro P. Masina. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover: 182pp. It has been two decades since the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) launched its groundbreaking policy of Doi Moi [Renovation]...

Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia. Edited by Vedi R. Hadiz. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Softcover: 301pp. Empire and Neoliberalism is the product of a conference held at the National University of Singapore in July 2004. The major...

China's Rising Sea Power: The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge.(People's Liberation Army)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... China's Rising Sea Power: The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge. By Peter Howarth. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover: 198pp. This book explores similarities between China's strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental...

Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context. By Daniel A. Bell. Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Hardcover and softcover: 379pp. The issues surrounding the transferability of...