Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Al Khanif, Khoo Ying Hooi
August 26, 2024
This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding the nuances of marginalisation and human rights in the region. Throughout the region, a whole range of similarities and differences can be observed relating to the Southeast Asian ...
Myanmar’s Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States
1st Edition
By Chiraag Roy
August 26, 2024
This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes through the cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian engagement in Myanmar’s peace process, a core event in Myanmar’s contemporary recent political history. The book asks to what extent, and how, middle powers have engaged in Myanmar’...
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand: Metagovernance and the Politics of NGO Funding
1st Edition
By Theerapat Ungsuchaval
August 26, 2024
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand critically examines the relationships of civil society to nongovernmental organisations in Thailand, and examines the ‘NGOisation’ of civil society, how NGOs are funded and governed, and in what way the NGOs has been shaped to work with the funder. NGOisation is ...
Public Expenditure and Income Distribution in Malaysia
1st Edition
By Mukaramah Harun, Sze Ying Loo
August 26, 2024
This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia. The book examines the initial functional and institutional distribution of income across different institutional agents and sectors and evaluates the impact of the public expenditure ...
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh
1st Edition
By Kathrin Eitel
August 26, 2024
This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste...
Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia: Confronting the Fear of Secession
1st Edition
By Ratri Istania
August 26, 2024
This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province increases conflict severity. It includes a quantitative study, along with complementary case studies of provinces in Indonesia, which provide evidence that group ...
Hedging Strategies in Southeast Asia: ASEAN, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and their Relations with China
1st Edition
By Alfred Gerstl
May 27, 2024
Introducing a re-conceptualized comprehensive hedging framework, this book analyses the relations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam with China in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the South China Sea dispute. The ...
The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia: A Legal Fiction?
1st Edition
By Sébastien Moretti
January 29, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of refugee protection in Southeast Asia from an international law perspective. It examines both the legal and policy frameworks pertaining to the protection of refugees in the region as well as the countries’ response to refugee movements from ...
Indonesia’s Failure in Papua: The Role of Elites in Designing, Implementing and Undermining Special Autonomy
1st Edition
By Emir Chairullah
September 25, 2023
Chairullah investigates how the political, social, and economic interests of national and local elites were negotiated in the formulation and early stages of Special Autonomy in Papua Province, Indonesia. The Papuan case lends support to the current conception of elite theory, which considers the ...
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar
1st Edition
By Yukiko Nishikawa
September 25, 2023
Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image, while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests. In the liberal international world order promoted since the end of the Cold...
Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei
1st Edition
By Johanna O. Zulueta
September 25, 2023
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women ...
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups
1st Edition
Edited
By Atsushi Yasutomi, Rosalie Arcala Hall, Saya Kiba
September 25, 2023
An exploration of the roles that pro- and anti-government militias, private armed groups, vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia. Scholars have typically characterized irregular forces as spoilers and infiltrators in post-conflict peacebuilding ...