Product Description: Key events in Asia’s recent history have included the end of the Cold War, the Asian Economic Crisis and the ‘war on terror’. This is a critical assessment of these events, and of the interplay of security and economics in shaping political regimes and modifying market systems...read more

Product Description: A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis. These leading contributors tackle the nature of neo-liberalism, and the forces and institutions driving it...read more

Product Description: As market economic systems extend over southeast Asia, the debate over what role the state should play and what political regime is necessary for economic growth is hotly contested. This revised and updated text examines the political economy of specific countries in the region and follows with a thematic and comparative analysis of key issues...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first century concern...read more

Product Description: This new edition updates its predecessor and uses the Asian economic crisis to indicate how theoretical differences identified in the South-East Asian boom were brought into even sharper relief in the analysis of the crisis and recovery strategies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Southeast Asia has undergone a remarkable industrial and economic transformation in the last two decades. This book examines the political economy of contemporary development in the region, discussing the changing political alignments and patterns of social organization...read more

Product Description: This book provides an assessment of approaches to studying Thai politics, the various forces reshaping the forms of political activity and their roles in the fluid contemporary political environment. This volume will be of particular interest to those who require an understanding of the complex and rapidly changing political realities of contemporary Thailand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides an assessment of approaches to studying Thai politics, the various forces reshaping the forms of political activity and their roles in the fluid contemporary political environment. This volume will be of particular interest to those who require an understanding of the complex and rapidly changing political realities of contemporary Thailand...read more

Product Description: Australia's growing realization of her position within Southeast Asia means that our knowledge of the region must be up-to-date and accurate. Following on from the success of "Southeast Asia in the 1990s", Kevin Hewison, Richard Robison and Garry Rodan three of Australa's best-known academics working on the region, have brought together a group of specialists on Southeast Asian politics to produce this completely new book...read more

Product Description: (Collection of essays revealing the crisis felt by Southeast Asia and her neighbors during economic upheavals of the 1990's)