Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy Andrew Walker Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, xiii+277p. This is a very important book for understanding political conflict in contemporary Thailand. The stated aim of this book is to investigate “the underlying economic, political, […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, vii+263p. Consoling Ghosts focuses on how Southeast Asians in the United States—Khmer from Cambodia, and Hmong, Kmhmu, and Lao from Laos; all refugee emigrants […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, ed. London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2013, x+214p. In the context of regional integration, Mainland Southeast Asia is subject […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945–48 Jafar Suryomenggolo Singapore and Kyoto: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2013, xiii+215p. Visitors to Lawang Sewu might be confused as to the building’s significance. Situated in the heart of Semarang on […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Popular Culture Co-productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari Singapore and Kyoto: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2013, x+276p. The recent growth of Asian media markets coincides with the emergence of an academic area […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Technocracy in Economic Policy-Making in Malaysia Khadijah Md Khalid* and Mahani Zainal Abidin** * International Institute of Public Policy and Management (INPUMA), University of Malaya, Academic and International Building, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Corresponding author’s e-mail: dijut[at]email.com ** Mahani Zainal Abidin was the chief executive […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Philippine Technocracy and the Politics of Economic Decision-Making: A Comparison of the Martial Law and Post-Martial Law Periods Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem* * Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines e-mail: teresatadem[at]gmail.com DOI: […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Technocracy and Thaksinocracy in Thailand: Reforms of the Public Sector and the Budget System under the Thaksin Government Suehiro Akira* * 末廣 昭, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan e-mail: asuehiro[at]iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.3.2_299 Thaksin Shinawatra seized power in […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Technocracy and Politics in a Trajectory of Conflict* Khoo Boo Teik** * An earlier version of this article first appeared as No Insulation: Politics and Technocracy’s Troubled Trajectory, IDE Discussion Paper No. 236, May 2010, Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan. Permission to publish the paper […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Technocracy and Economic Decision-Making in Southeast Asia: An Overview The Editors (Khoo Boo Teik,* Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem,** and Shiraishi Takashi***) * 邱武德, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail address: khoo-bt[at]grips.ac.jp ** Department of Political […]
Published in August, 2014 CONTENTS The Politics of Technocracy in Southeast Asia Guest Editors: Teresa S. Encarnacion TADEM, KHOO Boo Teik, and SHIRAISHI Takashi Technocracy and Economic Decision-Making in Southeast Asia: An Overview ・・・ The Editors Indonesian Technocracy in Transition: A Preliminary Analysis ・・・ SHIRAISHI Takashi A Short Account of the […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Indonesian Technocracy in Transition: A Preliminary Analysis* Shiraishi Takashi** *I would like to thank Caroline Sy Hau for her insightful comments and suggestions for this article. **白石 隆, Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), 3-2-2 Wakaba, Mihamaku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture 261-8545, Japan; National […]