December 2011
432 pages

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Financial crises after financial crises have occurred, with widening impact and deepening severity. This book started with an objective to understand the impact of high inflation on poverty in Southeast Asia. However, global inflation moved quickly into recession in 2008. Southeast Asia was not an exception. The book then refocused the title to Poverty and Global Recession in Southeast Asia. It is a modest attempt to contribute a better understanding of poverty and food security in Southeast Asia during the 2008–09 global recession, considering both recent developments and the previous major crisis of 1997–98. The book may also help to anticipate some possible impacts of future global recession on food and poverty, not only in Southeast Asia, but also in many other countries in the world.

“This book accomplishes two things at the same time; while focusing on two of the most important issues pertaining to Southeast Asia — poverty and food security — the book also fully utilizes the region's vibrant and diverse socio-economic-political settings in demonstrating how complicated these issues are. An excellent book indeed for scholars and policymakers who want to gain deep understanding of the issues and the Region.”

—Dr Somchai Jitsuchon, Research Director
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)

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Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
By Lee Poh Onn and Ng Boon Yian
Chapter 2: China and the Potential Conflict over Water Among Eurasian States
By Michael Richardson
Chapter 3: River Basin Agreements as Facilitators of Development
By Chris Perry
Chapter 4: Privatization of Water Services via Public Private Partnership and Implications for Southeast Asia
By Eric Teo Chu Cheow
Chapter 5: Indonesia's Water Management Reform
By Budhi Santhoso
Chapter 6: Water Resource Management Issues in Malaysia
By Salmah Zakaria
Chapter 7: Privatization Issues in Water Supply in Malaysia
By Syed Danial Syed Ariffin
Chapter 8: Troubled Waters: Rehabilitating the Pasig River, Philippines
By Donovan Storey
Chapter 9: The Privatization of Water Services in Metro Manila: Lessons from Mixed Outcome
By Lorraine Carlos Salazar
Chapter 10: Singapore Experience in Water Resources Management
By Wong Kai Yeng
Chapter 11: Thailand Water Sector: Overview and Implications
By Sukontha Aekaraj
Chapter 12: Water Resources and Issues Concerning Sustainable Watershed Management Practices in Vietnam
By Le Dinh Thanh

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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Foreword to the 1st Edition
Chapter 1: Introduction: Region and Regionalism in the Making of Southeast Asia
Chapter 2: Imagined Communities and Socially Constructed Regions
Chapter 3: Imagining Southeast Asia
Chapter 4: Nationalism, Regionalism and the Cold War Order
Chapter 5: The Evolution of Regional Organization
Chapter 6: Southeast Asia Divided: Polarization and Reconciliation
Chapter 7: Constructing "One Southeast Asia"
Chapter 8: Globalization and the Crisis of Regional Identity
Chapter 9: Whither Southeast Asia
Bibliography

February 2012
175 pages

Soft cover  ISBN : 978-981-4311-50-2    S$29.90/US$26.90

Europe’s mythical origins lie in Zeus’ abduction of the Asian princess Europa. Down the real centuries, Asia has played a crucial role in the making of Europe — as an object of Orientalist fantasy and colonial desire, but also of the spread of the liberating values and humane letters associated with the continent. In this book, a lifelong admirer of Europe casts a critical yet loving eye on the continent to ask what it means to him. The book revolves around a series of personal encounters. These range from following his father to Cambridge, and meeting two Bengali lovers in Calcutta who cherish Eros with classical Greek purity, to watching his wife recover in a Polish hospital that lavishes care on her for almost free. These encounters are intertwined with passionately argued essays on the Holocaust, the Soviet ideal, and the Berlin Wall as keenly-contested sites of the European imagination. A chapter on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's historical novel, The Leopard, combines literary and political analysis to peer into the heart of Italy, while an essay on champagne in France discovers the France in champagne. An analysis of secularism in the post-9/11 world defends one of the abiding legacies of Europe. Finally, a chapter on postmodern Europe upholds the European Union as perhaps the most exciting international project on offer today. The literary flair of this scholarly book captures the vividness of the intellectual engagement between Asia and Europe.

March 2012
401 pages

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To celebrate Anthony Reid’s numerous and seminal contributions to the field of Southeast Asian history, a group of his colleagues and students has contributed essays for this Festschrift. In addition to introductory essays which provide personal and intellectual histories of Anthony Reid the man, there is a range of original scholarly contributions addressing historical issues which Reid has researched during his career. Divided into sections which examine Southeast Asia in the world, early modern Southeast Asia, and modern Southeast Asia, these works engage with issues ranging from the Age of Commerce and comparative Eurasian history, to nationalism, ethnic hybridity, Islam, technological change, and the Chinese and Arabs in Southeast Asia. The authors include some of the foremost historians of Southeast Asia in our generation.

December 2011
137 pages
Hard cover ISBN : 978-981-4311-55-7    S$39.90/US$36.90

“This book entitled ASEAN-U.S. Relations: What Are the Talking Points? is a result of a workshop organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. The workshop was timely then, as the two sides, all of ASEAN, and the United States held their first-ever summit in Singapore in November 2009, heralding a new era of renewed engagement. The United States is very important for ASEAN, as a guarantor of regional stability and a vast market for ASEAN products. At the same time, ASEAN has gained more public attention from the United States, particularly since the advent of the Obama administration. This publication will serve as a reminder that ASEAN and the United States have shared many benefits as well as concerns for many years. Their continued engagement will undoubtedly ensure regional peace and order. I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in ASEANs external relations.”

—Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri
Former Rector of Thammasat University
and Visiting Professorial Fellow, ISEAS

“Much has been made in the last few years of Washington's 're-engagement' with ASEAN, warmer ties with several Southeast Asian states, and the review of U.S. policy towards Myanmar. What explains this change and where are U.S.-ASEAN ties headed in the future? This timely collection of short essays and speeches by eleven leading academics and senior officials provides valuable background to what it calls a 'new era' in U.S. policy and thoughtfully explores where future challenges and opportunities might lie. The chapters are practically focused and forward looking, offering critical perspectives as well as policy recommendations. Covering security issues, aid, Myanmar, the South China Sea, and the evolving U.S. role in regional institutions, ASEAN-U.S. Relations: What Are the Talking Points? will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the changing dynamics of American policy in Southeast Asia.”

—Dr David Capie
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

May 2012
307 pages

Soft cover  ISBN : 978-981-4379-63-2    S$49.90/US$42.90

This book contains a collection of papers on various aspects of Indonesia's economic and its industrial development. It discusses the early independence period in the 1950s; the Soeharto era (1966-1998); and the ensuing two economic crises, namely the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

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March 2012
423 pages

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In the 20 years since the Paris accords of 1991 brought peace to Cambodia, the country has undergone what can only be described as astounding change. From a polity where the entire fabric of society had been rent asunder through years of war and genocide, contemporary Cambodia is fast becoming a vibrant state and assuming a new position in the Asia-Pacific region. The contributions to this volume — many by prominent figures who were intimately connected with the process — describe the diverse strands of mediation and peace-building which went into the creation of the 1991 accords. The subsequent role of UNTAC and the 1993 general elections in the process of Cambodian revival and social rebuilding are also described. While not denying that obstacles and difficulties remain, the contributions outline the evolving economic, political, religious, and human resource situations within Cambodia, while also examining the country’s contemporary international relations. This book constitutes a particularly fitting testament to the twenty years of Cambodian reconstruction which have followed the 1991 peace accords.

March 2012
255 pages

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Underscoring the unique and multifaceted interactions between ancient India and ancient China, India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy collates the classic works of the pre-eminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956). The collected essays of this volume range from those that examine the ancient names for India in Chinese sources, to those that investigate Indian influences on Chinese thought, analyse the beginnings of Buddhism in China, and explore the letters exchanged between the Chinese monk Xuanzang (Hiuan-Tsang) and his Indian friends. Also included are a variety of Bagchi’s short articles, as well as English translations of a number of his Bengali essays. Further insight into Bagchi’s work is provided by the renowned scholars, Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Akira Yuyama, who discuss respectively Bagchi’s contribution to Chinese studies in India and to the wider understanding of India-China interactions. With its wide-ranging and thorough investigation of both Sino-Indian Buddhism and cultural relations between the two ancient civilizations, India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy will be an invaluable text for anyone interested in cross-cultural exchanges between India and China, Buddhism, or Asian history.

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