The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of regional integration and regional identity-building in Southeast Asia. The idea is to problematise the quest for a regional identity by relating the efforts of integration to the issues of multi-ethnicity, national identity-building and...

Review of the edited volume: Bräuchler, Birgit (ed.) (2009), Reconciling Indonesia. Grassroots Agency for Peace, London/New York: Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415487047, 272 pages.

The main objective of this article is to question the hypothesis of the role of transport infrastructures in regional economic growth by comparing Central Eastern Europe (supported by the EU structural and cohesion funds) and the Greater Mekong Subregion (mainly supported by the “economic...

Convicted terrorists from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) have attested to using the Internet in one way or another during their operations, from sending messages to one another to looking for extremist fatwas online to justify their actions. That said, however, one would be hard pressed to prove the...

Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s...

Review of the edited volume: Emmerson, Donald K. (ed.) (2008), Hard Choices. Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Singapore: ISEAS Publications ISBN: 978-1-931368-13-1, 422 pages

Review of the edited volume: Aspinall, Edward and Marcus Mietzner (eds.) (2010), Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions and Society, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: 978-981-4279-90-1, 359 pages

No living foreigner has shaped contemporary U.S. attitudes toward a single country more than Aung San Suu Kyi. As the seemingly vulnerable international avatar of democracy, she has effectively determined the parameters of possible U.S. policy choices. Although her Burma/Myanmar specific goals...

This introduction is based on the introductory presentation by the authors during the Clingendael Expert Meeting on 18 June 2010.

The case of the Philippines provides an interesting example of how post-colonial governments in Southeast Asia are trying to govern multi-ethnic nations. The Philippines, despite being the country in Asia with the most vibrant civil society, is still dealing with a war on the southern island of...