Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Taming People’s Power: The EDSA Revolutions and Their Contradictions Lisandro E. Claudio Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2013, 240p. People power is the foundationalist myth of the ruling Aquino regime which began with the presidency of Corazon (“Cory”) C. Aquino who replaced the […]
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Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 “Good Coup” Gone Bad: Thailand’s Political Developments since Thaksin’s Downfall Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, xv+290p. Come back, General Sonthi—all is forgiven! The 2006 coup may have turned bad, but compared with the 2014 coup it now looks positively benign. […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi Hadiz, and Yoshihiro Nakanishi, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xv+298p., index. The key intervention this timely volume makes is to question whether political agitation […]