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: 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: This book rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions.

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: This collection of essays identifies and analyzes the major social dynamics shaping contemporary Singapore - a city-state whose achievements and departures from orthodoxy command worldwide attention. The volume ranges across issues including the domestic consequences of globalization, the character of the state and its institutions, the possibilities of political reform, ideology and culture, and new pressures on social policy...read more (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: Southeast Asia has undergone a remarkable economic transformation in the last two decades. This book explains these changes, and examines the political foundations and implications of the changes, discussing the changing political alignments and struggles taking place...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