Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected...

The inauguration of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Bangkok in 1996 was celebrated with enthusiasm and hopes in the two regions because this forum represented a breakthrough in Asia-Europe...

The global financial and economic shock of 2007-09 is the third major economic crisis to have buffeted Cambodia in its post-conflict period, coming in the wake of the food crisis of 2007-08 and just...

Dr Comber?s account of General Templer?s administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952?54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox...

With China?s transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss...

The second edition of this book presents a most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the multiracial population of Malaysia, with painstaking effort and skill of the author in interpreting the...

The presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004?14) was a watershed in Indonesia's modern democratic history. Yudhoyono was not only the first Indonesian president to be directly elected, but also...

This volume is a tribute to Professor Hal Hill, one of the most distinguished and internationally renowned Australian development economists and the single most important Australian figure in the...

In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a ?landless proletariat? and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives,...

In the wake of Malaysia?s 13th General Election some commentators speak of a sharpening of ethnic politics ? with Prime Minister Najib blaming a ?Chinese tsunami? for his government?s polling...