South-East Asia : a political profile

Main Author: Kingsbury, Damien.
Published: South Melbourne Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001..
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing the modern state
  • Authority and legitimacy
  • Economic and political development
  • Security issues
  • Burma: the garrison state
  • Thailand: the survivor mandala
  • Laos: the land in between
  • Cambodia: 'the dancing country'
  • Vietnam: the little dragon
  • Malaysia: inclusion and exclusion
  • Brunei: floating on oil
  • Philippines: oligarchic democracy
  • Singapore: the corporate state
  • Indonesia: diversity in unity
  • East Timor: the difficult birth of a new state.