Overview
- Examines a range of countries in the Southeast Asia region including Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Vietnam
- Offers a way of assessing nation state developments and politics in the region
- Provides a unique triparte analysis of globalization, democracy and the ‘new middle’
Part of the book series: Frontiers of Globalization (FOG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Democracy and Globalization
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Front Matter
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Southeast Asia
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Front Matter
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Focus on Thailand
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the relationship between globalization and models of democracy.
Country studies are covered mostly by native Southeast Asian scholars who analyse recent developments as well as specific concerns that have arisen from political crises, citizen uprisings, ethnic identity politics, political reforms, social justice and inequality, and the persistence of the political elite. The collection highlights factors which have impacted the different regional and national paths taken such as: the legacy of the Cold War, rapid economic development and liberalization, external economic globalization, the important role of informal politics, powerful elites, and weak but emerging middle classes.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional studies of Southeast Asia, Democracy, Sociology, Politics and GlobalizationStudies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Boike Rehbein is Professor of Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University, Germany.
Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Surichai Wun’gaeo is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
Editors: Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Boike Rehbein, Surichai Wun'gaeo
Series Title: Frontiers of Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57654-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57653-8Published: 13 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84673-3Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57654-5Published: 31 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3777
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 312
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Globalization, Democracy