Thank you very much, Acharn Giles. This is great. First thing I want to say is this: listening to these four excellent and stimulating presentations, I was particularly struck by one thing that came out […]
Question 1: As I know little about the other countries, I have one short remark regarding Thailand and then one question. When Acharn Pasuk said that media is at its worse state since the emergence of modern […]
The Indonesian elections of 2004 differed from previous elections – most recently held in 1999 – in scope, procedures, and mechanisms. The differences are summarized briefly in the table below, following which I will focus […]
How did Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeat incumbent Megawati in the 2004 presidential election, given the President’s relatively successful maintenance of the economy over the last three years? Many analysts have highlighted the novel role played […]
Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and MalaysiaAriel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal, editorsLondon and New York / RoutledgeCurzon / 2003 To reach the true value of this book, the reader might skim the […]
Indonesia: The 2004 Elections and BeyondAdam Schwarz Singapore / Institute of Southeast Asian Studies / 2004 This monograph is a transcript of a lecture delivered by former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Adam Schwarz at the Institute of […]
Democratization in Thailand: Grappling with Realities『民主化の虚像と実像－タイ現代政治変動のメカニズム』Tamada Yoshifumi玉田芳文Kyoto / Kyoto University Press / 2003 Dr. Tamada Yoshifumi, a distinguished scholar of modern Thai politics at Kyoto University, was awarded the 20th Masayashi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2004 for this […]
Making Enemies: War and State Building in BurmaMary P. Callahan Ithaca, NY / Cornell University Press / 2004 Singapore / Singapore University Press / 2004 Why would anyone, in this age of terror and unfettered global trade, […]
Pook at Paninindigan: Mga Ugat ng Talastasang Sosyalista sa Rebolusyong Pilipino Ramon Guillermo Quezon CityLimbag Potopot and Amado V. Hernandez Resource Center (AVHRC) / 2000 The complex relationship between two “progressive perspectives” or “projects” – Marxism […]
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