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Examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. This book focuses on the case of Singapore to illustrate that the ways in which questions of culture and morality are resolved matter.

Provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. This book describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) have shaped Singapore theatre.

Presents a feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, this book offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration.

One of the most challenging environmental threats to the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and response to it, analysing environmental cooperation in Southeast Asia.

Presents a comprehensive overview of Southeast Asia's nation, Timor Leste, and the challenges it faces building a stable future. This title provides a comprehensive political history of the country, covering the Portuguese period, Indonesian occupation, the United Nation transition period, independence in 2002.

Offers an approach to understanding political decision making in Vietnam by recognizing enduring values that are derived from State-controlled education and official historical narratives. This book is suitable for academics and students within Asian studies, and also for policy makers involved with the country and those doing business in Vietnam.

Focuses on social and cultural trends in Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. This book is of interest to Southeast Asian and Middle East specialists and scholars in Anthropology and Migration Studies.

Offers an analysis of the Indonesian party politics and an explanation to why Golkar is the strongest party in Indonesia. This book examines Golkar's organizational infrastructure, its decisional autonomy and programmatic platform as well as the party's relations to the mass media.

Presents information of the security concept of Myanmar.

Tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development. This book argues that Singapore's success was dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links will be the key to the country's future.

From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia's period of democratization. This book examines this brutal conflict, illustrating in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia, focusing especially on how the relationship has developed in the last fifty years.

Covering various fields in political science, this text presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.