South East Asian Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

   Revisiting the boat people

   Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. ASEAN Regionalism

   Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

   By Christopher B. Roberts

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Communist Indochina

   By R. B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Democracy and Violence

   Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

   Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

   By Anthony Welch

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

   Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Vietnam

   A Guide to Economic and Political Developments

   By Ian Jeffries

   Series: Guides to Economic and Political Developments in Asia

   Winning the Vietnam War proved easier than winning the peace. Since 1975, the reunited country has faced the problem of how a poorer, planned economy in which state ownership and control could successfully absorb a more advanced, capitalist economy. In addition, the collapse of communism and the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

   Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

   By Ben Wallace

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Activism in Southeast Asia

   Edited by Michele Ford

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Social Activism in Southeast Asia brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and sexual identity in an overarching framework of...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Vietnam's Political Process

    How education shapes political decision making

    By Casey Lucius

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    In a system that is known for its covert political style, Vietnam’s decision making process is often described as either consensus-based or simply confusing and inexplicable. This book provides an approach to understanding political decision making in Vietnam by recognizing enduring values that are...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge