Bücher der Reihe Rethinking Southeast Asia

This is the first book in English to examine the tangled web of relationships linking newspaper owners, editors and reporters, with leading politicians and power-holders.

Explores the process of democratization in Thailand from the overthrow of the monarchist state in the 1930s to the present day and examines this development institutionally and ideologically through key issues.

Investigates the Thai media's role during the Thaksin government's first term. This book provides an insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics. It compares Thailand and its neighbouring countries in relation to the media, business, politics and popular culture.

This book looks at the role of the Indonesian military in the downfall of Suharto and their ongoing influence on the succeeding governments of B.J. Habibie and Abdurrahman Wahid.

Explores the basics of the defamation law as it applies to private-sphere defamation and looks at the peculiar permutations created by the use of public-sphere defamation laws in Thailand, particularly in terms of creating and protecting a nationalist identity.

A uniquely comprehensive overview of this fascinating and rapidly changing country, dealing with the politics, economics and society of Vietnam from the Doi Moi reforms of market socialism in 1986 to the present day.

The book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

This book deals with two major issues: how Indonesian NGOs survived under Suharto's authoritarian rule; and how NGOs contributed to the promotion of democracy in the post-Suharto era.