Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

1999 - 2015

From Institute of Asian Studies, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
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Volume 34, issue 2, 2015

Myanmar: Political Reforms and the Recalibration of External Relations pp. 3-19

Marco Bünte and Jörn Dosch

Myanmar’s China Policy since 2011: Determinants and Directions pp. 21-54

Maung Aung Myoe

The United States and Myanmar: From Antagonists to Security Partners? pp. 55-83

Jürgen Haacke

The European Union’s Myanmar Policy: Focused or Directionless? pp. 85-112

Jörn Dosch and Jatswan S. Sidhu

Japan’s Development Ambitions for Myanmar: The Problem of “Economics before Politics” pp. 113-138

Donald M. Seekins

New Developments in India–Myanmar Bilateral Relations? pp. 139-163

Pierre Gottschlich

Russia and Myanmar – Friends in Need? pp. 165-198

Ludmila Lutz-Auras

Volume 34, issue 1, 2015

Oligarchy in Thailand? pp. 3-25

T. F. Rhoden

Governance Obstacles to Geothermal Energy Development in Indonesia pp. 27-56

Matthew S. Winters and Matthew Cawvey

Betwixt Droughts and Floods: Flood Management Politics in Thailand pp. 57-83

Naila Maier-Knapp and Robin Ramcharan

Timor-Leste: The Adventurous Tribulations of Local Governance after Independence pp. 85-114

Rui Graça Feijó

Knowledge Cluster Formation as a Science Policy in Malaysia: Lessons Learned pp. 115-137

Hans-Dieter Evers and Solvay Gerke

Book Review: Mertha, Andrew: Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 pp. 139-141

Chow Bing Ngeow

Book Review: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson: Debating Democratization in Myanmar pp. 142-144

Marco Bünte

Volume 33, issue 3, 2014

Introduction: Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Asia pp. 3-17

James Gomez and Robin Ramcharan

The Limits and Potential of Liberal Democratisation in Southeast Asia pp. 19-47

Sorpong Peou

Evaluating Competing “Democratic” Discourses: The Impact on Human Rights Protection in Southeast Asia pp. 49-77

James Gomez and Robin Ramcharan

ASEAN Enlargement and Norm Change – A Window of Opportunity for Democracy and Human Rights Entrepreneurs? pp. 79-105

Kerstin Radtke

An Agreement to Disagree: The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and the Absence of Regional Identity in Southeast Asia pp. 107-129

Mathew Davies

Documentation: International Legal Human Rights Framework -- Human Rights and the Institutionalisation of ASEAN: An Ambiguous Relationship pp. 131-165

Theodor Rathgeber

Book Review: Shrestha, Omkar Lal, and Aekapol Chongvilaivan (eds), Greater Mekong Subregion: From Geographical to Socio-economic Integration pp. 167-171

Timotheus J. Krahl

Book Review: Hill, Hal (ed.), Regional Dynamics in a Decentralised Indonesia pp. 172-175

Adiwan Aritenang

Book Review: Jandl, Thomas, Vietnam in the Global Economy – The Dy-namics of Integration, Decentralization and Contested Politics pp. 176-179

Adam Fforde

Volume 33, issue 2, 2014

Timor-Leste’s Foreign Policy: Securing State Identity in the Post-Independence Period pp. 3-25

Selver B. Sahin

Merit-Making Activities and the Latent Ideal of the Buddhist Wat in Southwestern Cambodia pp. 27-57

Matthew O'Lemmon

The Internationalisation of Mainland Chinese Firms into Malaysia: From Obligated Embeddedness to Active Embeddedness pp. 59-90

Guanie Lim

Legislators in Myanmar’s First “Post-Junta” National Parliament (2010–2015): A Sociological Analysis pp. 91-124

Renaud Egreteau

Social Movements in Southeast Asia and Latin America pp. 125-137

Iqra Anugrah

Book Review: Siroj Sorajjakool: Human Trafficking in Thailand: Current Issues, Trends and the Role of the Thai Government pp. 139-144

Manassinee Moottatarn

Volume 33, issue 1, 2014

Introduction: “Local” Politics in Jakarta: Anomaly from Indonesia’s Local Politics? pp. 3-6

Masaaki Okamoto and Jun Honna

Jakartans, Institutionally Volatile pp. 7-27

Masaaki Okamoto

Ethnicity and Voting Patterns in the 2007 and 2012 Gubernatorial Elections in Jakarta pp. 29-54

Wahyu Prasetyawan

The Role of Religion and Ethnicity in Jakarta’s 2012 Gubernatorial Election pp. 55-83

Ken Miichi

Jokowi’s Populism in the 2012 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election pp. 85-109

Abdul Hamid

The Role of Volunteers and Political Participation in the 2012 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election pp. 111-138

Ahmad Suaedy

Book Review: Alavi, Hamid R., Aira Htenas, Ron Kopicki, Andrew W. Sheperd and Ramon Clarete (eds) (2012), Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia pp. 139-141

Chung Ming Chin

Book Review: Kent, Lia (2012), The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor pp. 142-144

Deniz Kocak

Volume 32, issue 3, 2013

Introduction: The Massacres of 1965–1966: New Interpretations and the Current Debate in Indonesia pp. 3-10

Annie Pohlmann

The Initial Purging Policies after the 1965 Incident at Lubang Buaya pp. 11-36

Yosef Djakababa

The Organisation of the Killings and the Interaction between State and Society in Central Java, 1965 pp. 37-62

Mathias Hammer

Why Not Genocide? Anti-Chinese Violence in Aceh, 1965–1966 pp. 63-91

Jess Melvin

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women’s Stories of Caring for and Losing Children during the Violence of 1965–1966 in Indonesia pp. 93-114

Annie Pohlmann

Seducing for Truth and Justice: Civil Society Initiatives for the 1965 Mass Violence in Indonesia pp. 115-142

Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem

Documentation: Reports by Human Rights and Victim Advocacy Organisations in Indonesia: Reconciling the Violence of 1965 pp. 143-165

Annie Pohlmann

Volume 32, issue 2, 2013

Introduction: The 2013 Malaysian Elections: Business as Usual or Part of a Protracted Transition? pp. 3-17

Andreas Ufen

Coalitions and Competition in Malaysia – Incremental Transformation of a Strong-party System pp. 19-37

Meredith L. Weiss

Negotiating Media ‘Balance’ in Malaysia’s 2013 General Election pp. 39-60

Ross Tapsell

Towards a More Democratic Regime and Society? The Politics of Faith and Ethnicity in a Transitional Multi-Ethnic Malaysia pp. 61-88

Kikue Hamayotsu

The Malaysian General Elections of 2013: The Last Attempt at Secular-inclusive Nation-building? pp. 89-104

Farish A. Noor

Overseas Voter Mobilisation in Singapore: Implications from Malaysia’s 13th General Election pp. 105-123

James Gomez and Rusdi Omar

Book Review: Gomez, Edmund Terence, and Johan Saravanamuttu (eds) (2012), The New Economic Policy in Malaysia: Affirmative Action, Ethnic Inequalities and Social Justice pp. 125-128

Frederik Holst

Book Review: Novotny, Daniel, and Clara Portela (eds) (2012), EU–ASEAN Relations in the 21st Century. Strategic Partnership in the Making pp. 129-130

Joern Dosch

Volume 32, issue 1, 2013

This paper explores the experiences of Cambodian French returnees who are contributing to transformative change in Cambodia as institutional entrepreneurs. In order to delve into how returnees and their work are perceived in both host and home country, this multi-sited research project was designed as a comparative case study. Data was primarily collected through conversations with individual informants from the Lyonnese and Parisian Cambodian community as well as selected key informants in Phnom Penh. Excerpts of case studies are presented and discussed to illustrate the history, context and situation of their return as these influence their institutional entrepreneurial activities and the ways in which they use their transnational social networks as resources. It is argued that the process of return and the initiation of institutional entrepreneurship are best explored through the threefold activities of returnees’ brokering, bargaining and building for transformative change as affected by (trans)national opportunity structures and institutions pp. 3-27

Gea D. M. Wijers

Democratic Transformation and Regional Institutions: The Case of Myanmar and ASEAN pp. 29-54

Catherine Shanahan Renshaw

Filipino Identity: The Haunting Question pp. 55-80

Niels Mulder

Economic Guidance and Contestation: An Analysis of Thailand’s Evolving Trajectory of Development pp. 81-109

Paul Chambers

Agrarian Transitions, Rural Resistance and Peasant Politics in Southeast Asia pp. 111-139

Fabian Drahmoune

Book Review: Anja Jetschke: Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines pp. 141-143

Salvador Santino F. Regilme

Book Review: Alan Collins, Building a People-oriented Security Community the ASEAN Way pp. 144-148

William J. Jones

Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia pp. 149-152

Dirk Tomsa