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China has long claimed the ownership of a network of widely-scattered islands and their surrounding waters and resources in the South China Sea. These claims overlap in a substantial way with those of at least three ASEAN countries: Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. The ASEAN Studies Centre hosted a discussion on "Energy and Geopolitics in South China Sea".

Examines traditional Chinese fiction from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The text covers Korea and Japan, mainland Northeast Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and insular Southeast Asia.

Argues that, although Indonesia would appear to be the natural leader in Southeast Asia, it has been singularly unsuccessful in putting its stamp on ASEAN. If anything, ASEAN has been put on Indonesia's bebas dan aktif (independent and active) foreign policy stamp through its deference to self-constructed obligations to ASEAN solidarity and consensus.

Subhas Chandra Bose is household name in India. He is remembered in Southeast Asia as well. However, while his contributions to India's independence movement have been recorded exhaustively, less is known about the legacy that he left behind in Southeast Asia. This book seeks to fill that gap in the international understanding of a great Indian nationalist and pan-Asianist.

"At a time when Southeast Asian Studies is declining in North America and Europe, this book serves to remind us of the fresh, constructive and encouraging view of the field from Asia." - Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao , Director of Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and former President of Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies

Examines the relationship between transition economies and the rise of China through empirical case studies from the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). In doing so, it offers insights into the effect of China on developing countries in general, and offers practical policy directions for the place-specific economies of the GMS.

Armed separatist insurgencies have created a real dilemma for many national governments of how much freedom to grant aggrieved minorities without releasing territorial sovereignty over the nation state. This book examines different approaches that have been taken by seven states in South and Southeast Asia to try and resolve this dilemma through various offers of autonomy.

Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region, and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.

'Know your enemies, know yourself', advised Sun Zi in his famous Art of War. In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would have said, 'Know your collaborators, know yourself', and this would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration.

Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatization has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system. This process has led to severe tensions inherent in the transitional society of Vietnam between equity and access to health care support - especially for the poor, elderly, migrants, and ethnic minorities - on the one hand, and its efficiency on the other hand. The book traces the reform efforts to modernize the health care system by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. The author bases her findings on little known primary literature and interviews with key stakeholders of the policy network involved in the reform of the health care system, thereby painting an authentic atmospheric picture of the profound changes in the health care system in Vietnam.

The papers in this volume are selected from an international conference organised by the CDRI, Cambodia, that examined health sector performance. With the participation of international and local experts, it aimed at collecting innovative solutions from inside and outside the country to improve health sector performance, with particular focus on institutions, motivations and incentives.

A stimulating set of case studies that combine original archival and/or field research with innovative historiographical perspectives. Luso-Asian communities, real and imagined, and Luso-Asian heritage, material and symbolic, are studied with depth and insight.

Presents a macro-study of Indian business communities in Singapore through different phases of their growth since colonial times. It goes beyond the conventional labour-history approach to study Indian immigrants to Southeast Asia, both in terms of themselves and their connections with the peoples' movements.

Five hundred years later, a conference held in Singapore brought together a large group of scholars from widely different national, academic and disciplinary contexts, to analyse and discuss the intricate consequences of Portuguese interactions in Asia over the longue durée. The result of these discussions is a stimulating set of case studies that, as a rule, combine original archival and/or field research with innovative historiographical perspectives. Luso-Asian communities, real and imagined, and Luso-Asian heritage, material and symbolic, are studied with depth and insight. The range of thematic, chronological and geographic areas covered in these proceeding is truly remarkable, showing not only the extraordinary relevance of revisiting Luso-Asian interactions in the longer term, but also the surprising dynamism within an area of studies which seemed on the verge of exhaustion. After all, archives from all over the world, from Rio de Janeiro to London, from Lisbon to Rome, and from Goa to Macao, might still hold some secrets on the subject of Luso-Asian relations, when duly explored by resourceful scholars.

Takes stock of the results of two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. This volume brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation.

After 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration linked granting trade preferences to security policy. This book argues that the USSFTA is an exception to this rule because the partners are fully developed economies. It also questions whether such high ""WTO-Plus"" gold standards that the two partners have embraced can easily be replicated elsewhere.

APEC is a crucial trans-regional arrangement that draws the United States into constructive economic engagement with East Asia. This book makes it clear why APEC remains such a crucial element of regional economic architecture and defines an agenda going forward to which regional leaders should aspire.

Contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.

Updates and reviews public policies from the early 1990s onwards. It gathers prominent thinkers and scholars on Singapore to examine issues of leadership and policy; economic restructuring; societal transformation; foreign relations and national identity.

Provides informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It offers an indispensable guide to this fascinating region. Lively, analytical, authoritative, and accessible. It is a must read for academics, government officials, the business community, the media, and anybody with an interest in contemporary Southeast Asia.

This captures Malaysia's foreign policy over the first fifty years and beyond since the date of the country's formal independence in 1957. The author provides ""macro-historical"" narratives of foreign policy practices and outcomes over distinct time periods under the tenures of the five prime ministers.

This collection of essays reflects on some of the major political and security issues in the region in recent times, including the balance of power among the major powers, American engagement and policies in Asia, India's rise, the global war on terrorism, the Iraq war, domestic developments in some countries as well as ASEAN's efforts to build regional peace and security.

The latest developments in Southeast Asia witnessed a wide array of policy actions at the regional and international levels to unravel the ripple effects of the global economic downturn and to set a stage for a long-term recovery.