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SOUTHEAST ASIA: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND TERRORISM -- SOUTHEAST ASIA: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND TERRORISM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INDONESIA: DOMESTIC POLITICS, STRATEGIC DYNAMICS, AND AMERICAN INTERESTS -- SUMMARY -- RECENT EVENTS: INDONESIA'S PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -- Parliamentary Elections -- Presidential Elections -- OVERVIEW -- POTENTIAL ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Military-to-Military Ties and Human Rights -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- POLITICAL TRANSITION -- THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY -- AUTONOMOUS AND SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS -- Timor-Leste -- Aceh

This Element is organized around two questions: what does populism mean in the context of Southeast Asia? And what are the causes of populist success in the region? Populism is conceived of as political strategy through which charismatic leaders establish unmediated links with otherwise unattached mass constituencies in their quest to gain and retain power. Having identified all of the cases of populism in Southeast Asia's democracies, the main argument put forward is that populist mobilization thrives in the region because parties are so weak. This weakness is in turn caused by institutional and political economic factors

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes. The first concerns hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and Southeast Asian subjects' responses to these dominant discourses. Roces introduces hegemonic discourses on ideal masculinities and ideal femininities, evaluates the impact of religion, analyses how authoritarian regimes fashion these ideals. Discussion then turns to the hegemonic ideals surrounding desire and sexualities and the way these are policed by society and the state. The second theme concerns the ways hegemonic ideals influence the gendering of power and politics. Roces argues that because many Southeast Asians see power as being held by kinship alliance groups, women are able to access political power through their ties with men-as wives, mothers, daughters, sisters and even mistresses. However, women's movements have challenged this androcentric division of power.