Southeast Asia in the New Century: An Asian Perspective

Samuel C. Y. Ku

The challenges facing the diverse Southeast Asian region are many and varied in the new century. The economic challenge from a resurgent China puts new seriousness into the efforts to enhance ASEAN economic integration and puts East Asian further forward into the consciousness of Southeast Asians; internal political difficulties continue to vex the region's powers. The editor of this set of papers, authored by Asian scholars from local perspectives, argues that Southeast Asian countries need to manage their priorities very carefully, weighing the necessities of political and institutional reform with the need to maintain stability. The papers in this collection look at internal political challenges and the wider regional perspective, including the progress of economic integration through ASEAN, the mobility of labor and capital throughout the region and East Asia, and the way big power relations shape the international environment for the Southeast Asian nations.

• Introduction (Samuel C.Y. Ku)
• Authoritarianism and Democratization in China and Taiwan and Comparisons with Other Asian Countries (Jose Abueva)
• ASEAN Economic Integration: The Journey Continues (Hadi Soesastro)
• Human Dimensions of Taiwan-Southeast Asia Economic Interdependence: A Preliminary Observation (Chen Jie)
• Beyond Business: the Cultural Poetics and Social Politics of Sino-Southeast Asian Transnational Networks (Liu Hong)
• New Directions for Southeast Asia's Regional Relations: An Indonesian Perspective (Landry Haryo Subianto)
• ASEAN's Relations with Big Powers (Han Feng)
• ASEAN in the new Millennium (Pham Nguyen Long)

Samuel C.Y. KU is Professor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies for Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.

publication year: 2002
276 pages
ISBN: 978-9971-69-262-9    US$19.00  S$28.00

Distributed for Center for SEA Studies, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Available only in Southeast Asia