Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

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1. Public Management and Governance in Malaysia

   Trends and Transformations

   Edited by Noore Siddiquee

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models. Chapters are written by...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand

   By Andrew Brown

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   In this book Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Critically examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of 'class factors' he aims to bring workers back from the margins, demonstrating that both in the...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. Asian Regional Governance

   Crisis and Change

   By Kanishka Jayasuriya

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   Jayasuriya looks at the changing global and domestic political economies shaping the new regionalism in Asia, and examines the relationship between regional domestic, political and economic structures and forms of regional governance. Well-known contributors in the field focus...

   Published August 12th 2009 by Routledge
4. Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

   Edited by Kevin Hewison, Ken Young

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
5. US-Asia Economic Relations

   A political economy of crisis and the rise of new business actors

   By Justin Robertson

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   In a world of continuing financial volatility, this book critically evaluates the oft-cited claim that US firms and the US government attempt to open emerging markets in economic distress and acquire valuable industrial and financial assets. Focusing particularly on Korea and Thailand, the...

   Published September 1st 2008 by Routledge
6. Political Fragmentation in Southeast Asia

   Alternative Nations in the Making

   Edited by Vivienne Wee

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   Using a mutidisciplinary approach, this enlightening book brings together political scientists, anthropologists, geographers and sociologists, who provide an analysis of separatist and autonomy movements in Burma, Indonesia, East Timor, Thailand and Laos. Through an examination of these movements,...

   Published June 14th 2004 by Routledge
7. Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia

   Singapore and Malaysia

   By Garry Rodan

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   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...

   Published March 17th 2004 by Routledge
8. Reorganising Power in Indonesia

   The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets

   By Vedi Hadiz, Richard Robison

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms...

   Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge