Bücher veröffentlicht von ISEAS

Aims to give a South Asian perspective on the geopolitics of energy, with a focus on India. This work addresses how India's global and regional foreign policy making has changed in light of India's search for energy and how this has affected the relationship on a global level between India and the US.

In 1999, Indonesia embarked on a reform of regional governance that brings self-governance to rural districts and municipalities. This volume not only deals with the 1999 legislation but also shows how the deficiencies and contradictions of this legislation reduced implementation between 2001 and 2004 to a try-out.

What challenges and opportunities does the rise of China and India pose for Southeast Asia and how should policy-makers respond? Identifying approaches and strategies to coping with these challenges and leveraging on the opportunities available, this book also links the quest for competitiveness with the necessity of social protection.

"Malaysia has long had an ambivalent relationship to globalization. A shining example of export-led growth and the positive role for foreign investment, the country''s political leadership has also expressed skepticism about the prevailing international political and economic order. In this compelling collection, Nelson, Meerman and Rahman Embong bring together a group of Malaysian and foreign scholars to dissect the effects of globalization on Malaysian development over the long-run. They consider the full spectrum of issues from economic and social policy to new challenges from transnational Islam, and are unafraid of voicing skepticism where the effects of globalization are overblown. Malaysia is surprisingly understudied in comparative context; this volume remedies that, and provides an overview of a country undergoing important political change." -- Stephan Haggard, Krause Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego"Half a century since Malayan independence in 1957, this collection of essays provides a welcome assessment of post-colonial, especially recent Malaysian policies on various fronts -- development, ''looking East'', 1997-98 crisis management, inter-ethnic redistribution, poverty reduction, trade, education, healthcare, globalization, Islam and national culture. This volume is a useful compendium for anyone seeking a broad overview of recent policy challenges and debates."-- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development and formerly Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, Universiti Malaya "What is the state of a globalizing Malaysia? In the same way that a group from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in the 1990s entered into fundamental debates about Malaysia''s future, here two decades later, another UKM research group -- fellows from the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) -- have gone to the heart of the Malaysian paradox. Taking the New Economic Policy and the post-independence racial tension as their twin touch points, the group systematically and sensitively explore the paradox of a highly globalized national economy mediated by a developmentalist and interventionist state. They coherently confront difficult issues from crony capitalism and poverty reduction to globalizing Islam and the now largely forgotten National Culture Policy. In doing so, they help us understand the complexities of political autonomy in a globalizing world."-- Paul James, Professor & Academic Director, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT, Melbourne

Tells the history of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, part of the Indian National Army led by Bengali revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose during World War II. The Regiment was composed largely of teenage volunteers from Malayan rubber estates, girls who had never seen India yet were eager to enlist to liberate India from colonial bondage.

Offers an analysis of the events and developments in Southeast Asian region in 2007. This book contains articles that provide the political and economic overview of Southeast Asia and the region, and examines ASEAN at its fortieth year. It also presents eleven country reviews.

A clear guide to current EU institutions, practices, and policies, this is also an informed insider''s account of how they have emerged in their present form, with clues on future change. The mixture of analysis and history, description and prescription, works well, because the author has had a ringside seat, but retains a cool Nordic non-partisan detachment. The hints he offers to those, for example in Asia, considering following a similar path to regional integration, represent the distilled wisdom of a career in balancing economic benefits and national sensitivities. As his story shows, it can be done. - Lord Kerr, Former Head of the UK Diplomatic Service, now Chairman of Imperial College, London and Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell.

A collection of essays that explores the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations in Southeast Asia since 1945. It traces three themes - transformations within Southeast Asian countries, the actors and processes that contributed to these changes, and new dynamics in foreign relations.

Includes essays which critically examine national ageing policies and programmes, the sustainability of pension systems, housing and living arrangements, inter-generational transfer, and aspects of quality of life of the elderly population.

With examples from Indonesia and Malaysia (electronics industry), Singapore (biomedical science industry), and Thailand (automotive industry), this book explains how the production networks and industrial clusters have played crucial roles in their industrial development.

Since its founding in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been a large part of the life of Southeast Asia, although most people in the region know very little about it. ASEAN has helped bring peace and stability to the region. This book seeks to shed some light on what ASEAN is all about.

"This is an excellent and versatile textbook, as well as an intervention in the scholarly debate on the Asian economies. During the last few years Lim has paid particular attention to China, realizing that the Chinese and Japanese economies are complementary and dependent on each other. The chapters are free-standing, which makes it easier to use the book as a text, as the instructor can be selective, if needed." - Professor Hans C. Blomqvist, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland"Professor Lim''s book is not only a discussion of the Japanese upswing and decade-long plateau. Most of all it is about Japan''s position in the interdependent economies of East and Southeast Asia. What this book convincingly demonstrates is that, despite the rise of China, the Japanese will remain a major source of expansion and innovation in ASEAN, in Asia and beyond." - Professor David Reisman, Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Presents an analysis of population trends and patterns in Singapore. This book includes chapters devoted to population growth and distribution, changing population structure, mortality trends and differentials, marriage trends and patterns, divorce trends and patterns, family planning, and abortion and sterilization.

Analyses the efforts to build an East Asian Community. This volume offers useful discourses on Russia's relations with ASEAN.

Identifies and defines the concepts and ideas central to security discourse in the Pacific region. This book looks at how concepts such as "human security" and "non-traditional security" have evolved and found adherents.

Philippine observers are often baffled by the economic and political turmoil that dominates headlines about the country. Yet, at the same time, the Philippines holds the potential for successfully combining political freedoms with sustained economic growth and, thus, improving the lives of its people. This book examines these contradictory trends.

Language policies in Southeast Asia have been shaped by the process of nation-building on the one hand and by political and economic considerations on the other. This book evaluates the successes and drawbacks of language policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.

Shows that the political and social fallout from the Second World War is divisive. This volume presents an example of how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asian integration and wider Asian integration.

The success or failure of democratic reform in Indonesia is a key question for Indonesia itself and for the surrounding region. Although Indonesia's transition to democracy holds out the promise of good governance, this cannot be taken for granted. This book is about the challenge of making democracy work in Asia's third-largest nation.

A collection of articles that takes a look at the dynamics of regionalism in Eastern Asia and shows how although the past limits the future, its hold on our possibilities for peaceful coexistence is not as strong as we think. It examines Japan's diplomatic history as well as the heritage of its conquest of Eastern Asia.

An annual reference for policy-makers, scholars, analysts, and journalists, this work covers significant issues and events in each of the ten Southeast Asian nations and the region as a whole. It begins with five incisive regional surveys, which focus on political change, gender issues, and socio-environmental impact on Southeast Asia in 2006.

Contains essays which potray the vibrancy of Vietnamese spirituality and shed light on the reflorescence of religion in this communist country. This book provides insights from post-revolutionary Vietnam into the diverse passages to re-enchantment in the modern world.

This study forms a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the economic history of Southeast Asia. In his Foreword, Dr John F. Cady, the author of A History of Modern Burma, writes that Dr Cheng "has placed all students of Burma in her debt by this highly articulate and clarifying contribution to the country's economic history."

Aims to provide an analysis of political and economic trends shaping Southeast Asia. This book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.

Featuring the Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, this title covers the duration from the time when data are available up to the early eighties. It presents a study of the multiracial population of the region for the period under consideration.

A biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, and others.

Serving as a project of the ASEAN-China Study Programme of ISEAS, this book examines the economic relations between ASEAN and China. Its chapters discuss these relations in terms of many important topics such as trade, the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), investments, services trade, energy cooperation, and more.

Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.

Part of a series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia by the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, this volume includes fresh perspectives to the debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits.