Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization : : Restructuring Governance and Deepening Democracy / / ed. by Francis Loh Kok Wah, Joakim Öjendal.

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 highligh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (382 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Globalization, Development and Democratization in Southeast Asia
  • Part One: Restructuring Governance
  • 2. Liberalization without Democratization: Singapore in the Next Decade
  • 3. Capital Controls and Reformasi: Crises and Contestations over Governance
  • 4. Human Rights in Malaysia: Globalization, National Governance and Local Responses
  • 5. Global Civil Society in One Country?
  • 6. Globalization, Inequitable Development and Disenfranchisement in Sarawak
  • 7. The Fall of Suharto: Understanding the Politics of the Global
  • Part II: Deepening Democracy
  • 8. Filling the Democratic Deficit: Deliberative Forums and Political Organizing in Indonesia
  • 9. Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand
  • 10 A New Local State in Cambodia?
  • 11. Democracy among the Grassroots
  • Conclusion
  • 12. Democratization amidst Globalization in Southeast Asia
  • Index