Bøger udgivet af ISEAS

Shows that the political and social fallout from the Second World War is divisive. This volume presents an example of how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asian integration and wider Asian integration.

The success or failure of democratic reform in Indonesia is a key question for Indonesia itself and for the surrounding region. Although Indonesia's transition to democracy holds out the promise of good governance, this cannot be taken for granted. This book is about the challenge of making democracy work in Asia's third-largest nation.

A collection of articles that takes a look at the dynamics of regionalism in Eastern Asia and shows how although the past limits the future, its hold on our possibilities for peaceful coexistence is not as strong as we think. It examines Japan's diplomatic history as well as the heritage of its conquest of Eastern Asia.

An annual reference for policy-makers, scholars, analysts, and journalists, this work covers significant issues and events in each of the ten Southeast Asian nations and the region as a whole. It begins with five incisive regional surveys, which focus on political change, gender issues, and socio-environmental impact on Southeast Asia in 2006.

Contains essays which potray the vibrancy of Vietnamese spirituality and shed light on the reflorescence of religion in this communist country. This book provides insights from post-revolutionary Vietnam into the diverse passages to re-enchantment in the modern world.

This study forms a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the economic history of Southeast Asia. In his Foreword, Dr John F. Cady, the author of A History of Modern Burma, writes that Dr Cheng "has placed all students of Burma in her debt by this highly articulate and clarifying contribution to the country's economic history."

Aims to provide an analysis of political and economic trends shaping Southeast Asia. This book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.

Featuring the Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, this title covers the duration from the time when data are available up to the early eighties. It presents a study of the multiracial population of the region for the period under consideration.

A biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, and others.

Serving as a project of the ASEAN-China Study Programme of ISEAS, this book examines the economic relations between ASEAN and China. Its chapters discuss these relations in terms of many important topics such as trade, the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), investments, services trade, energy cooperation, and more.

Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.

Part of a series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia by the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, this volume includes fresh perspectives to the debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits.

Draws together a collection of studies on the diverse and transformatory experiences of women as they encounter the forces of modernization altering the face of contemporary Borneo. This title presents the human and gendered face of development.

Geography has moulded Singapore's self-definition, much as it has shaped the contours of the rest of Southeast Asia, a region that lies south of China and east of India. This book combines diplomatic history and international relations theory to show how Singapore is facilitating China's and India's engagement of Southeast Asia.

The agricultural sector's perceived importance in the international development circle waned dramatically after the 1980s, and investments in rural development and agricultural research and development declined sharply. This volume reasserts the role of agricultural and rural development in the economic development debate.

Contains selected papers based on some of the lectures delivered over 2005/2006 at the ISEAS Energy Forum. This book provides knowledge on a variety of energy issues. It intends to educate the public on a range of energy issues and trends in Singapore, Southeast Asia and the wider region.

Dr Maung Maung (1925-94) was a man of many parts: scholar, soldier, nationalist, internationalist, parliamentarian, and public servant. His life spanned seven decades of political, economic and social turbulence in the country he loved and served, Myanmar. This book presents many of his important historical and journalistic essays.

Examines the growing interdependence between ASEAN and Korea and the political and economic realities governing the relationship. This work discusses the issues in areas of domestic and regional security environments, non-traditional security, regional trade arrangements, and Korean relations with the new ASEAN member states.

A project of the ASEAN-China Study Programme of ISEAS, this book traces the development of Southeast Asian Studies in China, discusses the status of these studies, examines the problems encountered in the pursuit of these studies, and attempts to evaluate their prospects.

Focuses on constitutional reform in Indonesia (1999-2002) from the perspective of shari'a. This book poses the crucial question implicit in the amendments to the 1945 Constitution: can shari'a and democratic constitutionalism be fused without compromising on human rights, the rule of law, and religious liberty?

Traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. This book concludes that traditional security approaches remain valid but need to be adapted to the new challenges.

Addresses the rise of China and its impacts on Southeast Asia's economies and businesses, especially on those of ethnic Chinese. This book also discusses Southeast Asian government policies, particularly their economic and business policies, towards local Chinese, and Southeast Asian Chinese businesses, both conglomerates and SMEs.

Analyses modern tendencies in the development of regional economic cooperation in East Asia which is considered by regional countries as their response to growing challenges of globalization.

Talking about ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the ""ASEAN Way"", the accession of the new members, including Myanmar, the principle of ""non-interference"", regional security, regional economic integration, the haze and SARS, and ASEAN's future.

Australia's relationship with Indonesia is one of its most important and contentious bilateral relationships. This book examines the factors and approaches that are involved in meeting the bilateral and regional challenges, including government links, public images and mutual perceptions, regional organizations, the role of Islam, and more.

Far reaching reforms in the telecommunications sector has dramatically changed the situation in the Philippines and Malaysia. By looking at the institutions and actors that drove these changes, this book examines state capacity, market reform, and rent-seeking in the two countries.

Presents a collection of opinion pieces published in the mass media after Abdullah Badawi became Malaysia's Prime Minister in October 2004. This work analyses the many difficult aspects of leadership that has been facing him over the years, discusses the country's underlying problems, and draws conclusions about nation building in general.

Written by regional and international experts, this book talks about significant issues and events of the previous year in each of the 10 Southeast Asian nations and the region as a whole. It begins with four incisive regional surveys, which focus on terrorism, security challenges and economic impact on Southeast Asia in 2004.

Focuses on the state's efforts to industrialize Myanmar. Examining developments during the 1948-88 period, this study situates the Myanmar case within the developmental state paradigm, whereby a critique of the investment-driven-pathway of Myanmar's political economy under socialist ethos is provided.

Designed to promote an understanding of Muslim attitudes to major political, legal, religious and social issues in Southeast Asia, this book includes quotations from documents on Islamic law; state and governance; jihad; society, women and the family; and more. It is useful for government officials, academics, security analysts, and journalists.