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Regional outlook : Southeast Asia 2003-2004 -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Political Outlook 2003-2004 -- The Asia-pacific geopolitical landscape by Daljit Singh -- The ASEAN-10 by Mohamad Yusop Bin Awang Damit • Tin Maung Maung Than • Anthony L. Smith • Russell Heng • K.S. Nathan • Mely Caballero-Anthony • Derek da Cunha • John Funston • David Koh -- Economic Outlook 2003 -2004 -- Regional economic trends by Denis Hew -- The ASEAN-10 by Lee Poh Onn • Mya Han • Muhammad Chatib Basri • Soedradjad Djiwandono • Nick J. Freeman • Denis Hew • Aladdin D. Rillo • Ngiam Kee Jin • Sakulrat Montreevat -- Selected sources of data -- The contributors.

Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the buy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region, and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in

This book examines how media have brought about or paced dramatic political events in Southeast Asia over the last two decades. It highlights a situation where media dynamics are no longer a simple formula of state control versus media resistance. The state can propel its own media-liberalizing programme; civil society can be an enemy of press freedom; market forces and cultural mindsets are sometimes more potent agents of change than state-appointed media custodians. Practitioners, scholars and activists have come together in this volume to provide a diversity of narratives on subjects as varied as powerful politicians and marginalized transsexuals

Getting organized in Vietnam : moving in and around the socialist state -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Grappling with Organizations and the State in Contemporary Vietnam -- 1. From Fence-Breaking to Networking: Interests, Popular Organizations and Policy Influences in Post-Socialist Vietnam -- 2. Business Associations and Policy-Making in Vietnam -- 3. NGOs and Highland Development: A Case Study in Crafting New Roles -- 4. The Disabled and Their Organizations: The Emergence of New Paradigms -- 5. Authoritarian Governance and Labour: The VGCL and the Party-State in Economic Renovation -- 6. The Relationship between Civic and Governmental Organizations in Vietnam: Selected Findings -- 7. Donors, Local Development Groups and Institutional Reform over Vietnam's Development Decade -- Index -- About the Contributors.

From the late 1950s in the north, to the 1970s until the mid-1980s in the south, there was little room or opportunity to form non-state voluntary organizations and associations in Vietnam. With few exceptions, only those established by the Communist Party and other state agencies were permitted. The picture has changed considerably since doi moi. From proactive self-help associations for the disabled to mass, semi-state or "non-governmental" organizations, the Vietnamese people are getting together to voice their collective and specific interests vis à vis the state. The process of getting together, voicing ideas, acting in concert, and attempting to influence policy in some cases is ongoing and in constant flux. This book presents original case studies of the gamut of organizations in Vietnam today and analyses their relationships with umbrella state organizations which are themselves evolving. Getting Organized in Vietnam also constitutes an enquiry into the term "civil society" itself. The contributors examine current thinking about the nature of the state in Vietnam in particular. Included here are the first attempts to provide a framework for assessing and categorizing the bewildering array of small organizations in Vietnam: which ones are weakly connected to the state, which ones are independent of the state but perhaps dependent on outside funding agencies. This book is a must for scholars, policymakers, journalists and others interested in understanding political and social change in Vietnam and other transitional economies