Contemporary Southeast Asia

South East Asia is one of the world's most diverse and complex regions yet its historical development, political practices and social and economic structures also have significant common features. This major new text brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities, rigorously edited to ensure systematic coverage, to provide students with an accessible and up to date thematically structured comparative introduction to South East Asia today. ALEX BELLAMY Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia MARK T.
BERGER Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia CHUA BENG HUAT Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore WILLIAM CASE Senior Lecturer, School of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia LORRAINE ELLIOTT Fellow, Department of International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia, and until August 2005, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK ROBERT ELSON Professor of Southeast Asian History, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, University of Queensland, Australia GREG FEALY Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and Lecturer, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia GREG FEL KER Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong VEDI HADIZ Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore RICHARD STUBBS Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada