Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 1 Networks in Pursuit of a “Two-Coalition System” in Malaysia: Pakatan Rakyat’s Mobilization of Dissent between Reformasi and the Tsunami Khoo Boo Teik* * National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan e-mail: booteik[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.1_73 In Malaysia’s 12th general election, in […]
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Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 1 The Rise and Fall of Virata’s Network: Technocracy and the Politics of Economic Decision Making in the Philippines Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem* * Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 2nd Floor Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Roces Ave., cor. Africa St., University of […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 1 Very Distinguished Alumni: Thai Political Networking Pasuk Phongpaichit,* Nualnoi Treerat,** and Chris Baker* *ผาสุก พงษ์ไพจิตร, based in Bangkok, Thailand Corresponding author (Baker)’s e-mail: chrispasuk[at]gmail.com **นวลน้อย ตรีรัตน์, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.1_19 The creation of elite networks can be explicit […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 1 Introduction: A Place for Networks in Asian Politics Khoo Boo Teik* and Onimaru Takeshi** * National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: booteik[at]gmail.com ** 鬼丸武士, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, […]
Published in April, 2016 CONTENTS Political Networks in Asia Guest Editors: Onimaru Takeshi and Khoo Boo Teik Introduction:A Place for Networks in Asian Politics ・・・ KHOO Boo Teik ONIMARU Takeshi Very Distinguished Alumni: Thai Political Networking ・・・ PASUK Phongpaichit NUALNOI Treerat Chris BAKER The Rise and Fall of Virata’s Network: […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics Ian Douglas Wilson Oxon, NY: Routledge, 2015, xxii+198p. Seventeen years have passed since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime. Indonesia’s reformasi has since been lauded as a successful case […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma Wen-Chin Chang Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014, xiii+278p. Responding to a call for studies on the varied ethnic Chinese societies in host countries around the world, Wen-Chin Chang’s Beyond Borders explores the whereabouts of […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, xxvii+261p. Exciting things are happening in the study of Burmese Buddhism. Recent years have seen the publication of very important contributions to […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Tania Murray Li Durham: Duke University Press, 2014, 240p. Land’s End is an intimate analysis of the effects of capitalist relations and a fascinating complement to Li’s previous work The Will to Improve (see Murray Li 2007). […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World Ooi Kee Beng Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, 254p. Scholars from, or based in, Europe, North America, or Australia have shaped most of the writing on world […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, xii+293p. The central argument made by Filomeno Aguilar in Migration Revolution is that overseas migration, as it is occurring […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2015, xxi+246p. Indonesia began its political reform almost 15 years ago following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian administration in 1998. […]