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Singapore is America's closest security partner in Southeast Asia. The United States has decided to help India become a major world power in the twenty-first century, an objective that is furthered by the nuclear agreement between them. Singapore's relationship with India is an increasingly pertinent feature of Southeast Asia's political and strategic landscape. Whether these three realities, taken together, lay the basis of a triangular relationship among Singapore, America, and India is the question that this book seeks to answer. The book begins with a review of the notion of Pax Americana and goes on to describe the state of bilateral relations among the three countries as they have evolved since the end of the Cold War. Subsequently, it analyses three core issues – the Global War on Terror, the rise of China, and the agency of democracy in international relations – that play a defining role in relations among Singapore, the United States, and India. The book concludes by suggesting some directions in which these relations might move

Divided over Thaksin : Thailand's coup and problematic transition -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction by John Funston -- 1. Political Contests in the Advent of Bangkok's 19 September Putsch by Michael J. Montesano -- 2. The Tragedy of the 1997 Constitution by Thitinan Pongsudhirak -- 3. The NESAC, Civil Society, Good Governance and the Coup by Gothom Arya -- 4. Military Coup and Democracy in Thailand by Chairat Charoensin-o-larn -- 5. Deconstructing the 2007 Constitution by Vitit Muntarbhorn -- 6. Thailand's 2007 Constitution and Re-Emerging Democracy: Will Political Polarization Continue? by Suchit Bunbongkarn -- 7. Untying the Gordian Knot: The Difficulties in Solving Southern Violence by Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- 8. Another Country: Reflections on the Politics of Culture and the Muslim South by Michael K. Connors -- 9. Governance in the South: Is Decentralization an Option? by John Funston -- 10. Tradition and Reform in Islamic Education in Southern Thailand by Joseph Chinyong Liow -- 11. The Economy Under the Thaksin Government: Stalled Recovery by Peter Warr -- 12. The Thai Economy after the Coup by Bhanupong Nidhiprabha -- 13. The Impact of Political Uncertainty on Business by Glen Robinson -- Index.

Plugging into production networks : industrialization strategy in less developed Southeast Asian countries -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction by Ikuo Kuroiwa -- Part I: Overview of the Production Networks in Less Developed Southeast Asia -- 2. Expansion of the Production Networks into the Less Developed ASEAN Region: Implications for Development Strategy by Fukunari Kimura -- 3. Production Networks and Industrial Policy in Less Developed Southeast Asia by Ikuo Kuroiwa -- 4. ASEAN Economic Integration and Implication for CLMV Countries by Denis Hew, Sanchita Basu Das and Rahul Sen -- Part II: Case Studies -- 5. Industrialization Strategy of Laos: Agglomeration and Fragmentation by Motoyoshi Suzuki -- 6. Export-oriented Garment Manufacturing and Its Impact on Employment, Productivity and Wages in Cambodia and Laos by Rajah Rasiah -- 7. FDI and Economic Integration in Vietnam by Tuan Bui -- 8. Border Industry in Myanmar: Plugging into Production Networks through Border Industry by Toshihiro Kudo and Ikuo Kuroiwa -- 9. The Batam, Bintan, Karimun Special Economic Zone: Revitalizing Domestic Industrialization and Linking Global Value Chain by Toh Mun Heng and Ng Kwan Kee -- Index.

This book considers Malaysia-Singapore relations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Geographical proximity, historical linkages, material flows, and movements have long connected the peoples and territories of Malaysia and Singapore in various ways and with varying degrees of intensity. Relations between the two countries have been shaped not only by competing visions of the nation and the different trajectories taken by these countries' nation-building projects, but also by the reality of economic interdependence and competition, security cooperation, and increasing embeddedness in the market-created East Asian region. The thirteen essays on history, politics, regional security, law, and economy collectively aim at a multi-dimensional study that seeks to convey the density and complexity of connections "across the Causeway

This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence. In the process Indonesia with its sprawling archipelago and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has to undergo various types of crisis and internal conflicts, but the ideals that have been nurtured since the beginning when a new nation began to be visualized remain intact. Some changes in the interpretation may have taken place and some deviations here and there can be noticed but the literal meaning of the ideals continues to be the guiding light. In short this is a history of a nation in the continuing effort to retain the ideals of its existence

Military politics, Islam, and the state in Indonesia : from turbulent transition to democratic consolidation -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction: Militaries in Political Transitions: Theories and the Case of Indonesia -- Part One: Historical Legacies, 1945–97 -- 1. Doctrine and Power: Legacies of Indonesian Military Politics -- 2. Islam and the State: Legacies of Civilian Conflict -- Part Two: Crisis and Regime Change, 1997–98 -- 3. Regime Change: Military Factionalism and Suharto's Fall -- 4. Divided Against Suharto: Muslim Groups and the 1998 Regime Change -- Part Three: the Post-Authoritarian Transition, 1998–2004 -- 5. Adapting to Democracy: TNI in the Early Post-Authoritarian Polity -- 6. New Era, Old Divisions: Islamic Politics in the Early Post-Suharto Period -- Part Four: Democratic Consolidation, 2004–08 -- 7. Yudhoyono and the Declining Role of State Coercion -- 8. Stabilizing the Civilian Polity: Muslim Groups in 329 Yudhoyono's Indonesia -- Conclusion Controlling the Military: Conflict and Governance in Indonesia's -- Bibliography -- Index.

Making an ASEAN-EU FTA work for European business : prospects and challenges -- Contents -- Foreword by Pär Ahlberger -- Foreword by K. Kesavapany -- Keynote speech -- About the Contributors -- 1. The Swedish business association of Singapore -- 2. Revisiting the building versus stumbling block debate on free trade agreements: the context of AN EU-ASEAN FTA -- 3. Swedish business in Singapore: how is it really to do business in the region?.