The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics provides a
comprehensive analysis of the major themes, conflicts and ideas
that have defined and shaped the politics of Southeast Asia in the
modern period. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the
different ways in which the complex and often turbulent politics of
the region have been understood and explained. The six thematic
parts that follow begin with an analysis of how the dominant
powerful political and social coalitions of the region and the
blueprints for authoritarian rule were forged in the Cold War era.
The next part assesses the complex processes of transition towards
various forms of democratic politics and the way populism and money
politics vie with more secular ideas of technocratic rule to shape
emerging regimes and systems of governance. A third part deals with
the politics of markets and how institutions and systems of
governance are being forged in an increasingly global environment.
Part four addresses whether civil society in Southeast Asia has
really evolved as an independent sphere of social and political
activity and power outside the control of powerful states as
markets develop. The challenges to the authority of national and
secular forms of state authority posed by ongoing violence and
conflict and by various ethnic and regional forces and, not least,
reactionary forms of Islamic politics are analysed in part five.
Finally, in part six, the Handbook examines how national
governments are dealing with growing tensions within the region as
matters such as labour, human rights and the environment spill
beyond national boundaries and how they are establishing a place in
the new global framework. This authoritative Handbook in both scope
and quality engages the Southeast Asian experience firmly with
larger debates about how modern political systems and modern states
are formed and how countries and regions are drawn into the global
system.
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