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Examines the weaknesses of Thailand's national innovation system and suggests how the country should develop new capabilities to survive and prosper in the globalized and fiercely competitive world. It will be useful to researchers and students who want to learn more about Thailand and emerging countries.

Offers an integrated analysis of the root causes of piracy, linking declining fish stocks, organized crime networks, radical politically motivated groups, the use of flags of convenience, the lack of state control over national territory, and the activities of private security companies, and identifies their wider security implications.

This is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernization.

This useful energy book, based on lectures delivered at the ISEAS Energy Forum, as well as papers written by invited experts, provides a means to access energy information. It is part of the ISEAS Energy books series which serves to educate and raise public awareness on energy issues.

Addresses key issues pertaining to the political economy of education, the provision and payment for primary and secondary education, and the development of vocational and tertiary education. The book marks an important contribution to existing understandings of Vietnam's education system and contributes to broader understandings of social conditions and change in contemporary Vietnam.

Provides a comparative sketch of regionalism in South and Southeast Asia. This book argues that regionalism is here to stay and both imitation and innovation are the preferred strategies for sustaining the process. It points out that economic integration requires certain prior conditions to be fulfilled.

In late 2004, Myanmar's best known general and long-serving leader of the military regime, General Khin Nyunt, was suddenly dismissed. This shock development. Would nascent civil society groups be able to play a role in national reconciliation? How would the new leadership deal with the flagging economy? This book addresses these issues.

Traces the origins of the Indian National Army. This book also describes the relationship between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian National Army as it evolved under the leadership of Bengali revolutionary, Subhas Chandra Bose.

Contains four main parts, which cover money and fiscal policies, the domestic economy, and the search for new paradigms. Contents include: The Dynamics of Monetary Policy; Economic Crisis and Fiscal Policy Management; Regional Heterogeneity of the Large Marker and Production Base; Governance and Economic Performance.

Written by leading democracy experts and scholars of Indonesia, this book presents a much needed study of the inner workings of Indonesia's political system, and its interactions with society. This is an indispensable guide to democratic Indonesia, its achievements, shortcomings and continuing challenges.

Draws on a unique series of in-depth interviews with 45 members of the Indonesian foreign policy elite that included the country's (present and/or former) presidents, cabinet ministers, high-ranking military officers, and senior diplomats.

The large market size and abundant resources of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including a large, motivated and cheap workforce, a rich agricultural base, extensive timber and fisheries resources, considerable potential mineral resources, and vast energy resources have seen the subregion increasingly recognized as a new frontier of Southeast Asian economic strength.This book aims to assess the recent economic, social and political developments in the GMS and identify emerging opportunities and challenges facing the successful transition towards a market-driven economy. The countries of the GMS are at a critical juncture where subregional efforts and cooperation must be made to fully address the rapidly evolving issues that are vital to appropriate policy formation, yet which remain widely debatable. The deliberations here shed light on the development stages and offer policy recommendations for pushing forward subregional cooperation.

However impressive the economic success of Penang has been over the past four decades, structural conditions in the region call for a fundamental reconfiguration of this Malaysian state's competitive advantage. Effectively meeting this challenge while retaining Penang's vibrant and living culture are the key issues that are dealt with in this second volume of the Penang Studies Series.

Argues that the extensive use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) would enhance policy coordination within the organisation; promote inclusive regionalism; help develop a stronger regional identity, particularly among the young; and improve "network management" or coordination of the collaborative activities of the member states.

This book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970-72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity.

This volume is the result of a workshop that had the objective to ascertain the facts of ASEAN-U.S. relations and the specific matter of the United States' engagement with ASEAN and East Asia, for possible use by ASEAN in the discussions at the next ASEAN-U.S. Summit Meeting and other ASEAN-U.S. policy forums.

Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next twenty-five years. Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems, but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. A new paradigm for economic thinking emerges to replace the one launched in the West 200 years ago.

In June 2009, the ASEAN Studies Centre of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organised ISEAS's annual roundtable, on the subject of "The Global Economic Crisis: Implications for ASEAN". The roundtable concluded that the crisis had a significant impact on the region, and ASEAN needed to have a better co-ordinated approach if it was to weather the storm.

Argues that Myanmar's relationship with China is asymmetric but Myanmar skilfully plays the ""China Card"" and it enjoys considerable space in its conduct of foreign relations. So long as both sides fulfil the obligations that come under ""Pauk-Phaw"" friendship, the relationship will remain smooth.

The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. This book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change.

A project of Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, this book covers Malaysia since its formation in 1963, using statistics collected in the four pan-Malaysia Population Censuses held in 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000, and data from other sources up to 2005 wherever possible.

Seeking to draw out lessons applicable to ASEAN, this report looks at the structure and evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This includes the context within which the Council was established, its rationale and economic importance. It then follows the organisation's development over time, paying particular importance to its progress towards monetary union.