Recently added articles from Contemporary Southeast Asia:
The Obama administration and US policy in Asia.(President Barack Obama)
Aug 01, 2009; ... President Barack Obama came to power facing daunting domestic and foreign crises. The United States led world economies into steep decline in 2008 and has continued falling in 2009. Active efforts by the US and other governments to deal with the causes and effects of the global financial ...
Contextualizing the Pattaya summit debacle: four April days, four Thai pathologies.(protests during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit reflects a deeper problem in Thai politics)
Aug 01, 2009; ... "A Great Calamity" in Progress? Glossing the consequences of the invasions that swept over Europe during the second half of the first millennium, the French medievalist Marc Bloch noted: "Just as the progress of a disease shows a doctor the secret life of a body, so to the ...
Indonesia and Singapore: structure, politics and interests.
Aug 01, 2009; ... The Singapore-Indonesia relationship is commonly described as being subject to sharp fluctuations, shifting between periods of tension and relatively close cooperation. A conventional schema would commence with the period of hostility during Indonesia's Confrontation of Malaysia from 1963 ...
Known knowns and known unknowns: measuring Myanmar's military capabilities.
Aug 01, 2009; ... Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns--the ...
Thailand's elusive quest for a workable constitution, 1997-2007.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... In 1997 Thailand drafted its much-vaunted "People's Constitution'" which many observers saw as a watershed event in Thailand's convoluted constitutional history. (2) In September 2006 popularly elected Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a military coup after weeks of protests ...