Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

The Contributors

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - Counter-forces: The Politics of Uneven Power

pp 3-18

Part I - The Political Contradictions of Globalization

pp 19-20

2 - Authoritarian States in Southeast Asia in Times of Globalization: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar

pp 21-50

3 - From Plural Society to Political Pluralism in Malaysia

pp 51-75

4 - Indonesia's Role in the Long-term Prospects of ASEAN

pp 76-96

5 - Civil Society, Accountability and Governance in Thailand: A Dim Case of Participatory Democracy

pp 97-116

Part II - Economic Regionalism and Global Influences

pp 117-118

6 - Globalization and the Role of the State in the Asia-Pacific

pp 119-133

7 - Economic Nationalism and the Limits of Globalization

pp 134-168

8 - Southeast Asian Perspectives on the Economic Rise of China

pp 169-204

Part III - Local Security, Global Insecurity

pp 205-206

9 - Maritime Piracy and Raiding in Southeast Asia: Local and Global Perspectives

pp 207-230

10 - Competing Globalization: The Case of European Cooperation with Indonesia against International Terrorism

pp 231-255

11 - Radical Islam and Political Terrorism in Southeast Asia

pp 256-276

Part IV - Social Processes: Arrested Development

pp 277-278

12 - Reluctant Tigers: Economic Growth, Erratic Democratization Processes and Continuing Political Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia

pp 279-295

13 - Women's Emancipation in the Philippines: A Legacy of Western Feminism?

pp 296-312

14 - Women's Emancipation in the Philippines: A Legacy of Western Feminism?

pp 313-332

Part V - Cultural Production in the Global Matrix

pp 333-334

15 - Measuring Cultural Globalization in Southeast Asia

pp 335-358

16 - The Singaporean Creative Suburb of Perth: Rethinking Cultural Globalization

pp 359-379

17 - Thai Magical Realism and Globalization

pp 380-396

Index

pp 397-416