Abstract: It has become the conventional wisdom in the West and elsewhere that the peaceful transition from authoritarian rule to a more democratic form of government in Myanmar has taken place because of the tireless efforts of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD), the diplomatic and economic pressures brought to bear on the former military regime by the international community, and belated recognition by the generals that Myanmar could not continue down the path of political and economic isolation without becoming weaker and more vulnerable. This narrative suits many of the key actors in this drama, in particular Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters, foreign politicians and human rights campaigners. ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Online videos are becoming a common feature in political campaigning with the ascendancy of YouTube as a platform to be a potentially effective election tool. Posting videos on YouTube requires no technical knowledge and enables users to publish and share video content with a wide range of audiences.1 According to the US-based Pew Research Center, YouTube, which was launched in 2005, was one of the world's most visited social media platforms in 2015.2 News organizations, politicians and those in the music industry were found to be among three of the largest communities that utilized YouTube to share and distribute various materials.YouTube was an important tool for political campaigning during the Malaysian general ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement within days of taking office in January 2017 has made many Asia-Pacific leaders and observers question the depth of US commitment to the region. The administration of President Barack Obama had promoted the TPP as an important means to entrench America's economic presence in the Asia Pacific, counteract Chinese influence, reassure allies of US commitment and ensure that America defined emerging principles of international trade. By contrast, Trump presented a vision of US "leadership" directed towards maximizing American power at the expense of other states, including allies.1 He portrayed America ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In its public communications over 2016 and 2017, the government of Timor-Leste highlighted the country's political and economic stability. The country had, indeed, been remarkably stable since the civil conflict of 2006–07, with the 20 March presidential and 22 July 2017 parliamentary elections being peaceful, good-natured and marking an uncontested handover of political power.The 2017 elections also represented a reversal of the political fortunes of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin) since losing government to a coalition led by the Congresso Nacional de Reconstrução de Timor (National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, CNRT) ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In recent years, maritime sovereignty disputes have become highly visible microcosms of broader contests in the Asia-Pacific region. Materially, the seas matter because: they constitute significant trading thoroughfares; some seabeds are estimated to hold significant quantities of hydrocarbon resources;1 they are often located in contested areas; and dwindling fishing stocks affect the livelihoods of coastal communities.2 These material factors have provided potential flashpoints for conflict in the maritime domain including territorial disputes over islands and reefs in the South China and East China Seas. Yet, these conflicts are also motivated by ideational factors. Maritime sovereign claims reflect a form of ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Southeast Asia, and Thailand in particular, has often been referred to as a potential "hot zone" or hub of emerging infectious diseases.1 This has been attributed to a multiplicity of factors including: a greater concentration and connectivity of livestock, persons and products with unsafe animal husbandry practices;2 a lack of development coupled with population growth and urbanization;3 problems with effective governance of infectious disease;4 and increasing interconnectivity in the region due to improved transportation links.Pandemic potential in Southeast Asia has been framed as a security threat,5 and Thailand has also recognized the implications of disease for transnational security. Most evident has been ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Khaki Capital is a significant work that touches on a range of issues concerning civil–military relations and the linkage between economic, military and political power in developing states. It catalogues the enduring roles of the military across much of Southeast Asia. Interestingly, however, it does not have chapters on Brunei, Malaysia or Singapore, though perhaps this is not too surprising given that these three states emerged peacefully from British colonial rule and London transferred control to designated or elected successors. That different and less military-dominated experience left their respective militaries with a weaker position from which to exercise what the authors describe as military capital, or ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This well-written and insightful volume is the culmination of Chua Beng Huat's academic work on state and society in Singapore and brings together many of his path-breaking arguments that have significantly shaped our understanding of the country.A society that is unlike any other in the world has emerged in the tiny Southeast Asian city-state which sits at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. Under the rule of the People's Action Party (PAP), a pragmatic leadership has significantly shaped the political system and ensured sufficient popular legitimacy to remain in power for more than half a century. Crucial to the government's support has been the public housing programme which provides housing for the majority of the ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Southeast Asia is the fastest growing region in the world, and this growth needs energy to fuel it. The International Energy Agency's 2017 report sees the region's energy demand rising by nearly two-thirds by 2040. Efforts to meet this demand have led to environmental damage, abuse of local community rights, and the disappearance and death of campaigners opposed to energy projects.In his latest book, Adam Simpson explores resistance to four energy projects: the Yadana, Shwe and Salween dams in Myanmar, and the Thai–Malaysian gas pipeline in Thailand. Drawing on detailed research and extensive fieldwork, he provides a "thick description" of local activist networks that have mobilized against these projects, and the ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Southeast Asia and China: A Contest in Mutual Socialization, edited by Lowell Dittmer and Ngeow Chow Bing attempts to provide a comprehensive approach to analysing Southeast Asia–China relations. The book's twelve chapters are thematically categorized into three broad sections: political, economic and normative dimensions.The editors' introductory chapter lays out the fundamental ideas of the book. They argue that while China has never been threatened by its southern neighbours, Southeast Asian countries have, to varying degrees, harboured concerns, and even fears, about their northern neighbour due to military invasions in the distant past and, more recently, Beijing's support for regional communist movements ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China, Benjamin Zawacki makes an important contribution to the field of Thailand's foreign relations. The author advances an argument which runs counter to the conventional wisdom: that the main feature of Thai diplomacy is to maintain a balancing position vis-à-vis the Great Powers in order to avoid having to choose sides. Instead, Zawacki contends that since the end of the Second World War, Thailand has chosen sides: the United States during the Cold War and, since the turn of the new century, China.Zawacki argues that despite the close ties Washington cultivated with Bangkok during the Cold War, the United States is largely to blame for Thailand's shift ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Southeast Asia is a "confluence zone" where personas of Indian and Chinese civilizations have met over several millennia through recurring and often coalescing waves. The India–China interface in Southeast Asia has long been a matter of scholarly debates, and particularly since India launched its "Look East" policy in 1992 (rechristened as the "Act East" policy in 2014). China's "Good Neighbourly Policy" and its recently launched Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have brought China–Southeast Asia relations into sharper focus.Although several recently published books have probed the interplay between India and China in Southeast Asia, almost all of them have focused on either New Delhi or Beijing's perspective, or ... Read More Keywords: Burma; Democratization; Internet videos; Sarawak (Malaysia); Elections; Free trade; United States; Southeast Asia; Democracy; Timor-Leste; Territorial waters; Law of the sea; Public health; Epidemiology; Environmental policy; Thailand; India PubDate: 2018-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
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