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The Art of Not Being Governed
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them-slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an \"anarchist history,\" is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of \"internal colonialism.\" This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott's work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
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Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia
In Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia , Rodan rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian control. Instead, Rodan argues that in Singapore and Malaysia external pressures for transparency reform were, and are, in many respects, being met without serious compromise to authoritarian rule or the sanctioning of media freedom.
1. Information Control and Authoritarian Rule in East and Southeast Asia: Under Challenge? 2. Bedding Down Media and Information Control in Singapore and Malaysia 3. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Transparency Reform in Singapore 4. Keeping Civil Society at Bay: Media in Singapore After the Crisis 5. Crony Capitalism and Transparency Reform in Malaysia 6. Challenges to Media Control in Malaysia Conclusion: Advanced Market Systems, Information Flows and Political Regimes
Garry Rodan is Director of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia.
'Readers committed to press freedom, justice and democracy will find Rodan's analysis compelling.'
Mustafa K. Anuar, Aliran Monthly , Vol. 24 (6).
'Rodan has written an enlightening, challenging and provocative book in which he questions the assertion that greater financial and economic transparency leads to a more open society.' - Far Eastern Economic Review
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Multination states in Asia : accommodation or resistance
\"As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking independence. This volume brings together international experts on countries in all regions of Asia to debate how differently they have responded to this problem. Why have some Asian countries, for example, clamped down on their national minorities in favour of homogeneity, whereas others have been willing to accommodate statehood or at least some form of political autonomy? Together they suggest broad patterns and explanatory factors that are rooted in the domestic arena, including state structure and regime type, as well as historical trajectories. In particular, they find that the paths to independence, as well as the cultural elements that have been selected to define post-colonial identities, have decisively influenced state strategies. This is a global phenomenon - and the book explains the broader theoretical and political implications - but violence and ethnic unrest have been particularly prevalent in Asia, and this is as true of China in its relationship to Tibet, as of Burma and Sri Lanka in relation to their national minorities. As the first book to analyse this phenomenon across Asia, it will attract a readership of students and scholars across a broad range of disciplines\"--Provided by publisher.
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Southeast Asia and the Cold War
The origins and the key defining moments of the Cold War in Southeast Asia have been widely debated. This book focuses on an area that has received less attention, the impact and legacy of the Cold War on the various countries in the region, as well as on the region itself.
The book contributes to the historiography of the Cold War in Southeast Asia by examining not only how the conflict shaped the milieu in which national and regional change unfolded but also how the context influenced the course and tenor of the Cold War in the region. It goes on to look at the usefulness or limitations of using the Cold War as an interpretative framework for understanding change in Southeast Asia.
Chapters discuss how the Cold War had a varied but notable impact on the countries in Southeast Asia, not only on the mainland countries belonging to what the British Foreign Office called the \"upper arc\", but also on those situated on its maritime \"lower arc\". The book is an important contribution to the fields of Asian Studies and International Relations.
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The Making of Southeast Asia
\"Amitav Acharya has written a splendidly ambitious book. Travelling from the discipline of International Relations to the historiography of Southeast Asia and back again, it draws upon a range of methodologies to analyse the issue of identity in the configuration of Southeast Asia. But it provides more than an academic assessment. With this book, Acharya must be judged to have contributed not just to the study of Southeast Asian regionalism, but to the process itself.\"
–Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History, Australian National University
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Political legitimacy in Asia : new leadership challenges
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The editors of this collection bring together scholars of comparative politics, political philosophy and democratic theory to investigate the vital transformative role of dissident democratic leaders in Asia. The contributors explore the challenges and obstacles faced by leaders seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions. It also examines the way leaders conduct themselves democratically in the course of their struggle and how they respond to demands to maintain democratic dissent once they succeed.
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Introduction; J.Kane , H.Patapan ,& H.C.Loy
Reclaiming Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In; H.Holbig & B.Gilley
Political Legitimacy in Vietnam Under Challenge; C.A.Thayer
The Struggle for Political Legitimacy in Thailand; B.Dressel
Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy and Islam; G.Barton
Legitimacy in Malaysia: Dilemmas and Deficits; W.Case
The Political Legitimacy of the PAP Government in Singapore; B.Wong & X.Huang
From Coup d'état to 'Disciplined Democracy' in Burma: The Tatmadaw's Claims to Legitimacy; S.McCarthy
Legitimacy Deficit in Japan: The Road to True Popular Sovereignty; H.Satoh
Political Legitimacy in an Unconsolidated Democratic Order: The Philippines; N.Morada
Political Legitimacy in South Korea; H.Kim
Democratization as a Legitimacy Formula: The KMT and Political Change in Taiwan; T.J.Chen & N.T.Wu
Political Legitimacy Reconsidered; J.Kane & H.Patapan
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This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions.
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JOHN KANEProfessor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia.
HUI-CHIEH LOY Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the National University of Singapore.
HAIG PATAPAN Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University.
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The book explores the theory and practice of political legitimacy through a detailed examination of eleven countries in Asia: China, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan As Asia becomes increasingly important in an international context, so do the challenges and opportunities such internationalization presents to each country in the region Explores the theoretical and practical contours of legitimacy as they become manifest in very different but regionally related contexts
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