Recently added articles from Contemporary Southeast Asia:

Democracy and American grand strategy in Asia: the realist principles behind an enduring idealism.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Green, Michael J. ... Keywords: democracy promotion, US foreign policy, China, Japan, India, ASEAN. MICHAEL J. GREEN is Senior Advisor and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University. At the ...

Asia's competitive "strategic geometries": the Australian perspective (1).(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Tow, William T. ... World politics is ultimately determined by landmark changes in state-centric power configurations and the contemporary international security environment is proving to be no exception. (2) Europe, the Middle East and Asia collectively form the vortex of geopolitical rivalry in our time and ...

Breaking the mould: Japan's subtle shift from exclusive bilateralism to modest minilateralism.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Mulgan, Aurelia George ... The strengthening of the US-Japan alliance under the KoizumiAbe governments has prompted a neorealist argument that Japan is aligning even more closely with the United States in order to balance China. (1) In practice, Japan's strategy for dealing with Chinese power is more complex than ...

Securing the "anchor of regional stability"? The transformation of the US-Japan alliance and East Asian security.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Bisley, Nick ... The forward deployment of US military power in East Asia is thought by many scholars and policy-makers to be the key factor behind the region's sustained stability over the past twenty years. (1) It is underwritten by a range of formal and tacit bilateral agreements and alignments of which ...

Regional security for the Asia-Pacific: ends and means.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Rolfe, Jim ... In August 2007 former Australian Prime Minister and architect of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) process, Paul Keating, advocated that that organization take on a wider role to "move from its traditional focus on trade and economics to a much wider agenda of security and ...

Southeast Asia's nuclear power thrust: putting ASEAN's effectiveness to the test?(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Symon, Andrew ... Nuclear power suddenly has come into favour among governments in Southeast Asia as a means of helping solve looming electricity shortages. While just three or four years ago nuclear energy did not feature in the medium- and long-term power development master plans of countries in the ...

International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding: Cambodia and Beyond.(Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, The Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia)(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Ear, Sophal ... International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding: Cambodia and Beyond. By Sorpong Peou. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Hardcover: 261pp. Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, The Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia. By Benny Widyono. Lanham, Maryland: ...

Burma and Japan Since 1940: From 'Co-Prosperity' to 'Quiet Dialogue'.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Ganesan, Narayanan ... Burma and Japan Since 1940: From 'Co-Prosperity' to 'Quiet Dialogue'. By Donald M. Seekins. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2007. Softcover: 181pp. This book examines the bilateral relationship between Burma/ Myanmar and Japan since 1940, or rather, the onset of ...

Indonesia, Islam, and Democracy: Dynamics in a Global Context.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Sensenig, Victor J. ... Indonesia, Islam, and Democracy: Dynamics in a Global Context. By Azyumardi Azra. Jakarta: Equinox Publishing, 2006. Softcover: 242pp. Even before its foundation, Indonesia struggled to balance the demands of nationalism and Islam. The famous seven words of the Jakarta Charter ...

America's Strategy in Southeast Asia: From the Cold War to the Terror War.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Simon, Sheldon W. ... America's Strategy in Southeast Asia: From the Cold War to the Terror War. By James A. Tyner. Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Softcover: 240pp. Studies of US foreign policy towards any world region, including Southeast Asia, are usually written by political ...

Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Pang, Eul-Soo ... Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. Softcover: 325pp. This book examines the emerging new dynamics of Asian regionalism. The concept of regionalism widely used in ...

A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Smith, Paul J. ... A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia. Edited by Andrew T.H. Tan. Glos.: Edward Elgar Press, 2007. Hardcover: 491pp. Immediately after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, Southeast Asia began to be characterized by various media reports as the ...