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This book provides complete, yet non-technical, analyses of production fragmentation effects and thus targets a wide range of readers - including academics, researchers, policymakers, students, entrepreneurs, and anyone who is interested in this subject. It investigates the economic impacts of production fragmentation in Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand's experience as an emerging global hub of fragmentation and outsourcing. This elucidates new evidence in connection with production, industrial organizations and labour economics theories, providing interesting insights for formulating industrialization and labour development policies

Asian maritime power in the 21st century : strategic transactions : China, India, and Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Maritime power: a tour D'horizon -- 2. Maritime geography, law of the sea and geostrategy -- 3. Military maritime power: China and India -- 4. Economics and maritime power -- 5. Political components of maritime power -- 6. Techno-military dimension of Asian maritime power -- 7. Strategic transactions: China, India and Southeast Asia -- 8. Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Inedx -- About the author.

The Sulu arms market : national responses to a regional problem -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Common Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary of Terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Illicit Arms Market: Analysis of a System -- 3. The Sulu Arms Market: The Players -- 4. Supply and Demand in the Sulu Arms Market -- 5. Regional Counter-Trafficking Policies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Beyond the myth : Indian business communities in Singapore -- Contents -- List of map, tables and figures -- Message -- Foreword -- Mesage -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Photo plates -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1: Making Singapore their homeland: the early Indian migrants to the lion city -- Chapter 2: The post-independence period: changing dynamics and the shift in business activities -- Chapter 3: taking strides into the future: transition and transformation of the Indian business communities -- Part Two -- Chapter 4: Business associations and organizational networks -- Chapter 5: The indomitable entrepreneurs: three case studies -- Conclusion: surging forward -- Appendices -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Select bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

Southeast Asia witnessed a wide array of policy actions at the regional and international levels to unravel the ripple effects of the global economic downturn and to set a stage for a long-term recovery. Yet the quest for regional and global solutions has been hampered critically by the complication of individual economies and the diverse levels of economic development. The objective of this book is to examine in-depth region-specific research on how macroeconomic tools are at work in the Southeast Asian economies

In this book, Jiro Okamoto explores the development of Australia's foreign economic policy towards ASEAN. He examines in detail decisive factors such as changes in the international and regional environment and the replacement of a dominant policy coalition with another in Australia's domestic policy process. His analysis shows that the shifts in Australia's ASEAN policy have not only closely reflected changes in Australia's overall foreign economic policy orientation, but that Australia's ASEAN policy strongly drove the change at key junctures. His work also offers important insights into the prospect of an "inclusive" economic integration process in East Asia. Although Australia's foreign economic policy has been an important element in regional economic cooperation, its inclusion in the East Asian integration process still remains ambiguous

Most scholarly works conducted within the period of post-New Order Indonesia have underlined the fact that Indonesian Islamists reject the notion of democracy; no adequate explanation nonetheless has been attempted thus far as to how and to what extent democracy is being rejected. This book is dedicated to filling the gap by examining the complex reality behind the Islamists' rejection of democracy. It focuses its analysis on two streams of Islamism: the two Islamist groups that seek 'extra-parliamentary' means to achieve their goals, that is, MMI and HTI, and the PKS Islamists who choose the existing political party system as a means of their power struggle. As this book has demonstrated, there are times when the two streams of Islamism share a common platform of understanding and interpretation as well as an intersection where they are in conflict with one another. The interplay between contested meanings over particular theological matters on normative grounds and power contests among the Islamists proves to be critical in shaping this complexity