Contemporary Southeast Asia - Beeson, Mark
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South East Asia is one of the world's most diverse and complex regions yet its historical development, political practices and social and economic structures also have significant common features. This major new text brings together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities, rigorously edited to ensure systematic coverage, to provide students with an accessible and up-to-date thematically-structured comparative introduction to South East Asia today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: National Differences and Regional Dynamics in Southeast Asia; M.Beeson
Reinventing a…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
South East Asia is one of the world's most diverse and complex regions yet its historical development, political practices and social and economic structures also have significant common features. This major new text brings together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities, rigorously edited to ensure systematic coverage, to provide students with an accessible and up-to-date thematically-structured comparative introduction to South East Asia today.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: National Differences and Regional Dynamics in Southeast Asia; M.Beeson
Reinventing a Region: Southeast Asia and the Colonial Experience; R.Elson
Decolonising Southeast Asia: Nationalism, Revolution and the Cold War; M.T.Berger
Southeast Asian Development in Regional and Historical Perspective; G.Felker
Democracy in Southeast Asia: How to Get it and What Does it Matter?; W.Case
Asian Values: Is an Anti-authoritarian Reading Possible?; C.Beng Huat
The Politics of Labour Movements in Southeast Asia; V.Hadiz
Islam in Southeast Asia: Domestic Pietism, Diplomacy and Security; G.Fealy
The Pursuit of Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond Realisms; A.Bellamy
Environmental Challenges, Policy Failure and Regional Dynamics in Southeast Asia; L.Elliott
Southeast Asia and the Major Powers: The United States, Japan and China; M.Beeson
ASEAN; Building Regional Cooperation; R.Stubbs
Autorenporträt
MARK BEESON is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia.