ISBN-13: 9780415494274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 400 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415494274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 400 str.
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.