The Politics of Death: Political Violence in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9783825888602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str.

Aurel Croissant;Martin Beite;Sascha Kneip

Opis

This volume analyzes four aspects of political violence in Southeast Asia: elections and violence; intra-ethnic conflict; communist insurgency; terrorism and religious extremism and lethal crime and politics. Together, the ten case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand challenge the idea that democratic governance will bring an end to internal violent conflict. As some examples in the region suggest, semi-democratic polities in Southeast Asia even may be more successful in reducing levels of internal violence, compared to new democracies in their neighborhood and other types of political regime they have tried in the past. Aurel Croissant teaches is professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Beate Martin is a researcher at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Bonn (Germany). Sascha Kneip is a researcher at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (Germany).