Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. THE CONTRIBUTORS xi
6. INTRODUCTION
7. 1. Counter-forces: The Politics of Uneven Power 3
8. PART I. The Political Contradictions of Globalization
9. 2. Authoritarian States in Southeast Asia in Times of Globalization: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar 21
10. 3. From Plural Society to Political Pluralism in Malaysia 51
11. 4. Indonesia’s Role in the Long-term Prospects of ASEAN 76
12. 5. Civil Society, Accountability and Governance in Thailand: A Dim Case of Participatory Democracy 97
13. PART II. Economic Regionalism and Global Influences
14. 6. Globalization and the Role of the State in the Asia-Pacific 119
15. 7. Economic Nationalism and the Limits of Globalization 134
16. 8. Southeast Asian Perspectives on the Economic Rise of China 169
17. PART III. Local Security, Global Insecurity
18. 9. Maritime Piracy and Raiding in Southeast Asia: Local and Global Perspectives 207
19. 10. Competing Globalization: The Case of European Cooperation with Indonesia against International Terrorism 231
20. 11. Radical Islam and Political Terrorism in Southeast Asia 256
21. PART IV. Social Processes: Arrested Development
22. 12. Reluctant Tigers: Economic Growth, Erratic Democratization Processes and Continuing Political Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia 279
23. 13. Women’s Emancipation in the Philippines: A Legacy of Western Feminism? 296 Janet M. Arnado 296
24. 14. Moving Story: Transnational Mobility and Chinese Education in Malaysia 313
25. PART V. Cultural Production in the Global Matrix
26. 15. Measuring Cultural Globalization in Southeast Asia 335
27. 16. The Singaporean Creative Suburb of Perth: Rethinking Cultural Globalization 359
28. 17. Thai Magical Realism and Globalization 380
29. INDEX 397