This volume moves beyond the traditional view of decolonization as simply a transfer of power. Instead the chapters emphasize the process rather than events to provide a framework for discussion. The editors have brought together Asian, American and European scholars to share different perspectives & insights in the post-colonial era.
This work provides the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history. It examines evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late 19th century through World War II, and offer insights into the events of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
A compilation of comparative studies of local politics and political cultures in term of the social integration in postcolonial insular Southeast Asia such as Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. This book attempts to clarify the influence of colonial knowledge on the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer, focusing on the postcolonial political situations as a local pros…
Written from various perspectives, this collection of essays explores the migration experiences of a spectrum of people, from professional and managerial elites to contract workers and refugees. In addressing the nature of these Asian migrations, it demonstrates how mobility in the world has transformed notions of citizenship and identity.
The East Asian Strategic Review 2004 covers trends in the security environment of East Asia over the twelve-month period ending Desember 31, 2003. Event today, more than ten years after the end of the cold war, the situation in east asia is fraught with tensions.
outcome of the Fourth South Asia Dialogue that took place an November 1994 among the various scholars who gathered in Kathmandu, this book presents the papers and findings of the deliberations that took place then. The issues covered were confidence building, secu- larism, democratization, elec- toral reform, decentralization of power, human rights, and endogenization of the economic policymaki…
Southeast ASIAN Responses to Globalitation Restructuring Governance and Deepening Democracy It is now apparent, especially in the aftermath of the regional financial crisis of 1997, that globalization has been impacting upon the Southeast Asian economies and societies in new and harrowing ways, a theme of many recent studies. Inadvertently, these studies of globalization have also lighted that …
The originality and usefulness of this volume lies in its exceptionally detailed information and analysis of each country's political system, as well as its up-to-date examination of the key domestic issues that dominate the political agenda in this fast changing region.
Awalnya, Robert Baer iseng-iseng saja ketika melamar menjadi anggota CIA (Dinas Intelijen Amerika). Tetapi ketika lamarannya diterima, dengan sepenuh hati ia mengikuti pelatihan dan akhirnya ditugaskan menjadi agen lapangan di berbagai belahan dunia, yang tidak semua lokasinya dengan mudah bisa kita jumpai di Atlas Dunia.
Our main purpose is to encourage a focussed debate and discussion on such issues so that the peoples of South Asia as well as the policy community put them high on their agenda. That step by itself could provide hope for the Individual citizen in South Asia whose quality of life evokes a sense of despair in the region