Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity in the Contemporary World, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367320218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Donald G Mccloud

Opis

Bridging the perceived gap between Southeast Asia's historical and contemporary situations, Donald McCloud focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment. The author challenges widely held views that diversity and fragmentation are the hallmarks of the region, identifying inst

Spis treści

Preface -- Southeast Asia in Regional and Global Contexts -- An Overview of Early Southeast Asia -- Bases for Political Community in Traditional Southeast Asia -- State Formation and Development in Early Southeast Asia -- The Interstate System in Precolonial Southeast Asia -- Colonial Interlopers and System Disjunction -- Traditional Values in Western Cloth: The State at Independence -- The Global System in the Post-World War II Era -- Foreign Policy in the Bipolar World -- Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World -- Coming of Age in Foreign Policy Responses -- The Emergence of Neotraditional Values -- Regional Politics: Fragmentation and Cooperation -- The Interstate System of Contemporary Southeast Asia

O autorze

Donald G. McCloud is senior associate director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA).