Southeast Asian Political and Economic Development

Please choose one of the questions and two countries below and let me know the question and the countries you are going to work on.

Assignment description:
This is a standard academic essay designed to assess your grasp of the thematic issues considered in the latter half of the module.
• this essay requires you to consider a theme across at least two countries, or the region as a whole.
• You must not re-use material from your earlier assessment: choose different countries this time. ( which was Indonesia so please do not use Indonesia)
• For an essay of this length, it would be appropriate to consult 8-10 scholarly sources, plus non-scholarly sources (e.g. NGO reports, economic data, etc) as appropriate to your argument. Your research should use the further readings listed beneath the relevant topic(s) in the reading list. You may also use Google Scholar to identify additional reading if you feel it is necessary.

The essay will, of course, be graded according to standard SPIR marking criteria which will also be attached. But here are some tips on how to succeed with this specific assignment:
• All of the suggested questions must draw on evidence from at least two countries or discuss developments across the region. The countries you reference must be different to the one chosen for your Country Report (which was Indonesia for me). Failure to follow this instruction will result in a failure for task fulfilment. If you are in any doubt, ask.
• SPIR’s marking criteria prize original thought and writing. For this assignment, this means:
o Work that genuinely expresses your own intellectual perspective, based on a critical engagement with the readings, will do better than work that merely parrots the readings;
o Likewise, you should always write what you think, not what you might think I want to hear (because, actually, what I want to hear is what you think); and
o You should draw on sources beyond the core seminar readings – this will enable you to think about the topic in ways that go beyond class discussion and draw on a wider range of ideas and evidence to make your argument. This will make your essays more original, distinctive, and interesting. Do not assume that all the relevant reading for the essay you are doing is listed beneath just one week’s “topic”. Sometimes reading for other weeks may also be relevant.
 Important: this assignment is about testing your understanding of content on this module. At the risk of stating the obvious, this requires engaging with themes, ideas, readings, etc, on this module – not just randomly selecting sources via a Google search or relying on a completely different set of literature. You are welcome to bring in sources/things you have learned from other modules, but the core of your research should be focused on this one. If in doubt, ask.
• An essay is an argumentative response to a question. If you do not make an argument, you have not produced a successful essay.
• The only way you can develop an argument is to be constantly reflecting on the question as you read. Do not just read lots and hope an answer will magically occur to you at the end, as you wallow in mounds of notes. Take notes based on what sources have to say about your question, not just the question they are addressing (which may well be quite different). As you read, constantly ask yourself: what does this tell me about my question? How does it fit with/contradict other things I have read? As you read, write: take notes, not just summarising what the source says, but identifying what is useful/relevant/important/difficult for your question and how you might make use of it. Marginal notes are good, but you should also always write a short paragraph at the end of your reading to reflect actively on what you’ve read. These notes can often provide arguments in embryo for your essay.
• When you have finished reading, work out what it is you want to argue, then plan your essay as a sequence of points. You cannot convince the reader all at once, only step by step. So, think about the logical steps necessary to get your argument across, and the best structure (sequence) for these points. Think about the evidence required to support each point you want to make.
• The only way to make a fully persuasive argument is to state your case at the beginning, then demonstrate why you are correct. An essay is not a magic trick: your purpose is not to rummage around in a top hat, muttering mysteriously and then finally pull out a white rabbit at the very end. Every successful essay involves a clear, transparent line of argument that is sustained throughout. Use the whole essay to explain to the reader why they should agree with you. If you leave stating a clear answer to the question until the very end, it is very unlikely that you will have persuaded the reader of your case in the preceding paragraphs. Therefore, state your argumentative response to the question in the introduction. Use the rest of the introduction to summarise the key steps in your argument. The introduction thus acts as a “map” of your essay, helping to show the reader the structure you want them to follow (and be persuaded by).
• Each paragraph should then develop one substantive point in your argumentative sequence, as foreshadowed in the introduction. Make it clear what each paragraph is “doing” in the argument by using a clear “topic sentence”: an opening line that makes a clear statement, which the rest of the paragraph then develops in full. I should be able to read just the first lines of your paragraphs and understand immediately what the content is likely to be; and, taken together, these topic sentences should sketch out your argument in full.
• Making a clear argument does not mean that you do not consider contrary arguments and evidence. But rather than an equivocal “on the one hand, on the other” type approach, which typically involves flip-flopping back and forth without making any clear overall argument, you need to deal with possible objections (either rebutting them or incorporating them into your argument) as part of your argument. E.g. paragraph A might argue X; paragraph B acknowledges that there are some objections to X; paragraph C explains why these objections are wrong; and paragraph D provides further evidence of why X is correct. This is clearly superior to: paragraph A saying that some people say X; paragraph B saying that some people say Y; conclusion C says that, on balance, the personal opinion of the author is X. The reader is unlikely ever to be persuaded by the latter approach because you have given them no reason to agree with you.
• When you have finished writing your essay, check it for consistency. Is the structure and argument set out in your introduction actually executed in the body of the essay, or does it wander off-track? If there’s a mismatch, restructure your essay or change your introduction. Ensure all the parts of the essay are logically coherent.
• Also proof-read the work for spelling, grammatical, and punctuation mistakes, and ensure all references are provided according to SPIR’s Coursework Formatting and Referencing guide. As third-year students there is no excuse for sloppily-presented work, and any such work will be graded lower on presentation; poor citation practices and wrongly formatted references/bibliographies will also attract lower marks for representation of sources.

Titles:

1. What are the legacies of the Cold War on Southeast Asian political and economic development?
2. To what extent are the post-‘socialist’ countries of Southeast Asia on a different development track to ‘capitalist’ Southeast Asia?
3. Why is democracy so ‘poor quality’ in Southeast Asia?
4. Is labour migration empowering for women in Southeast Asia?
5. How do Southeast Asian states govern in- and out-migration?
6. “Political Islamists have made limited inroads in the majority-Muslim countries of Southeast Asia.” Discuss.
7. What do environmental catastrophes in Southeast Asia tell us about its political economy?
8. “China’s rise is mostly beneficial for the Southeast Asian region.” Discuss.

Country List:

• Cambodia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Timor-Leste

Scholarly Sources provided by the university:

Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities (London, Verso) [eBook/ JC311 AND]
Emmerson, D. K. (1984). “’Southeast Asia’: What’s in a Name?” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 15(1), 1–21. [available here]
King, V.T. (2008) The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), ch.5 [eBook/HN690.8.A8 KIN]
Kuhonta, E. et al. (eds.) Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 55-79 [JQ75.A58 SOU] [available here]
Scott, J. C. (2011) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) [eBook/ DS523.3 SCO]
Tarling, N. (1999) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [DS525 CAM]

Carroll, T. and Jarvis, D.S.L. (2014) “Theorising Asia’s Marketisation under Late Capitalism: Risk, Capital and the New Politics of Development”, in Carroll, T. and Jarvis, D.S.L. (eds.) The Politics of Marketising Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave), 3-25 [EBOOK/ HC412 POL]
Chaudry, K.A. (1993) “The Myths of the Market and the Common History of Late Developers”, Politics & Society 21(3): 245-74 [available here]
Chaudry, K.A. (1994) “Economic Liberalization and the Lineages of the Rentier State”, Comparative Politics 27(1): 1-25
Elias, J. and Rethel, L. (2016) “Southeast Asia and Everyday Political Economy”, in Elias, J. and Rethel, L. (eds.) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 3-24 [eBook/ HC441 EVE]
Juego, B. (2020) “IPE Scholarship about Southeast Asia: Theories of Development and State–Market–Society Relations”, in Vivares, B. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries (London: Routledge), 488-510 [eBook/ on order]
Robison, R. (2012) “Interpreting the Politics of Southeast Asia: Debates in Parallel Universes” in Robison, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge), 5-22 [EBOOK/ DS526.7 ROU]
Rodan, G. et al. (2006) “Theorising Markets in South-East Asia: Power and Contestation”, in Rodan, G. et al. (eds.) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1-38 [TCOLL HC441 POL]
Sangmpam, S.N. (2007) “Politics Rules: The False Primacy of Institutions in Developing Countries”, Political Studies 55(1): 201-24
Winters, J.A. (2011) Oligarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ JC419 WIN]
Beeson, M. (2014) Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development, 2nd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 107-18, 140-7 [EBOOK/ JQ1499.A38 BEE]
Berger, M.T. (2004) The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (London: RoutlegeCurzon) [eBook/ DS35.2 BER]
Felker, G. (2018) “The Political Economy of Southeast Asia”, in Ba, A. and Beeson, M. (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia: The Politics of Change, Contestation, and Adaptation, 3rd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 70-90 [EBOOK/ TCOLL DS526.7 CON]
Glassman, J. (2018) Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945-1980 (Leiden: Brill) [EBOOK/ HC415.D4 GLA]
Gomez, E.T. (ed.) (2002) Political Business in East Asia (London: Routledge) [eBook/JQ1499.A56 POL]
Hewison, K. and Rodan, G. (2012) “Southeast Asia: The Left and the Rise of Bourgeois Opposition”, in Robison, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge), 25-39 [eBook/ DS526.7 ROU]
King, V.T. (2008) The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), ch.5, 7 [eBook/ HN690.8.A8 KIN]
McGregor, A. (2008) Southeast Asian Development (London: Routledge), ch.3-4 [eBook/ HC441 MAC]
Stubbs, R. (1999) “War and Economic Development: Export Oriented Industrialization in East and Southeast Asia”, Comparative Politics 31(3): 337-55
Studwell, J. (2007) Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (London: Profile Books) [eBook/ HC441 STU]
Winters, J. (2012) “Oligarchs and Oligarchy in Southeast Asia”, in Robison, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge), 53-67 [eBook/DS526.7 ROU]
Bafoil, F. (2014) Emerging Capitalism in Central Europe and Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Political Economies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), ch.3-5, 8 [eBook/ HC59.7 BAF]
Berger, M.T. (2004) The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (London: RoutlegeCurzon) [eBook/ DS35.2 BER]
Bertrand, J. (2012) Political Change in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), part II [eBook/ JQ750.A58 BER]
Gainsborough, M. (2012) “Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam”, Journal of Democracy 23(2): 34-46
Jönsson, K. (2008) “Authoritarian States in Southeast Asia in Times of Globalization: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar”, in Chong, T. (ed.) Globalization and its Counter-Forces in Southeast Asia (Singapore: ISEAS), 19-49 [eBook/ HC441 GLO]
McGregor, A. (2008) Southeast Asian Development (London: Routledge), ch. 3-4 [eBook/ HC441 MAC]
Beeson, M. (2014) Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development, 2nd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 189-94 [JQ1499.A38 BEE]
Berger, M.T. (2004) The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (London: RoutlegeCurzon) [eBook/ DS35.2 BER]
Carroll, T. (2017) “Capitalism, Contradiction and the Onward March of Variegated Neoliberalism in Southeast Asia”, in Westra, R. (ed.) The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity (Abingdon: Routledge), 135-58 [eBook]
Dixon, C. (2010) “The 1997 Economic Crisis, Reform and Southeast Asian Growth”, in Rasiah, R. and Schmidt, J.D. (eds.) The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), 103-38 [eBook/ HC441 NEW]
Gomez, E.T. et al. (2021) “Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, early online, 18 July, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2021.1933138
Felker, G. (2018) “The Political Economy of Southeast Asia”, in Ba, A. and Beeson, M. (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia: The Politics of Change, Contestation, and Adaptation, 3rd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 70-90 [EBOOK/ TCOLL DS526.7 CON]
Hewison, K. and Rodan, G. (2012) “Southeast Asia: The Left and the Rise of Bourgeois Opposition”, in Robison, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge), 25-39 [eBook/ DS526.7 ROU]
Hughes, C. and Un, K. (2011) “The Political Economy of ‘Good Governance’ Reform in Cambodia”, in Hughes, C. and Un, K. (eds.) Cambodia’s Economic Transformation (Copenhagen: NIAS), 199-218 [available here]
Juego, B. (2018) “The Institutions of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Malaysia: A Critical Review of the Development Agendas under the Regimes of Mahathir, Abdullah, and Najib”, Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 11(1): 53-79 [available here]
Jayasuriya, K. and Rosser, A. (2006) “Pathways from the Crisis: Politics and Reform in South-East Asia Since 1997” in Rodan, G. et al. (eds.) The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), 258-82 [TCOLL HC441 POL/ available here (NB: large PDF)]
Juego, B. (2015) “Elite Capture and Elite Conflicts in Southeast Asian Neoliberalization Processes”, in Inequality, Democracy and Development under Neoliberalism and Beyond (New Delhi: IDEAs), 68-93 [available here]
Kanchoochat, V. et al. (2021) “Sick Tiger: Social Conflict, State–Business Relations and Exclusive Growth in Thailand”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, early online, 2 February, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2020.1869997
Masina, P. (ed.) (2002) Rethinking Development in East Asia: From Illusory Miracle to Economic Crisis (Richmond: Curzon Press) [eBook/ HC460.5 RET]
Rodan, G. (2021) “Inequality and Political Representation in the Philippines and Singapore”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 51(2): 233-261
Springer, S. (2017) “Klepto-Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and Patronage in Cambodia” in Tansel, C.B. (ed.) States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 235-53 [available here]
Thompson, M.R. (2016) “The Moral Economy of Electoralism and the Rise of Populism in the Philippines and Thailand”, Journal of Developing Societies 32(3): 242-269

Democracy
Bellin, E. (2000) “Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late-Developing Countries”, World Politics 52(2): 175-205
Brownlee, J. (2007) Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ JC480 BRO]
Case, W. (ed.) (2015) Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization (Abingdon: Routledge) [eBook/ JC423 ROU]
Eizenberger, R. and Schaffar, W. (eds.) (2018) The Political Economy of the New Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia, special issue of Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11(1): https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/issue/view/196 [includes articles on Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and human rights institutions]
Rodan, G. and Hughes, C. (2014) The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [eBook/ JQ750 ROD]
Jayasuriya, K. and Rodan, G. (2007) “Beyond Hybrid Regimes: More Participation, Less Contestation in Southeast Asia”, Democratization 14(5): 773-94 [see also the rest of this special issue]
Neureiter, M. (2013) “Organized Labor and Democratization in Southeast Asia”, Asian Survey 53(6): 1063-86
Rodan, G. (2018) Participation without Accountability: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) [eBook]
Sachsenroder, W. (2018) Power Broking in the Shade: Party Finances and Money Politics in Southeast Asia (Singapore: World Scientific) [eBook]
Slater, D. (2008) “Democracy and Dictatorship Do Not Float Freely: Structural Sources of Political Regimes in Southeast Asia” in Kuhonta, E. et al. (eds.) Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 55-79 [JQ75.A58 SOU] [available here]
Tomsa, D. and Ufen, A. (eds.) (2013) Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Electoral Clientelism and Electoral Competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines (New York: Routledge) [eBook]
Thompson, M.R. (ed.) (2019) Southeast Asia’s Troubling Elections, Journal of Democracy 30(4) – special section on recent elections in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
Winters, J.A. (2011) Oligarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ JC419 WIN]

Populism (see also readings on Islamic populism in Week 10)
Aspinall, E. (2015) “Oligarchic Populism: Prabowo Subianto’s Challenge to Indonesian Democracy”, Indonesia 99(April): 1-28
Case, W. (2017) Populist Threats and Democracy’s Fate in Southeast Asia: Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia (London: Routledge) [eBook/ JQ750.A91 CAS]
Chacko, P. and Jayasuriya, K. (2018) “Asia’s Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 48(4): 529-40 [and see the rest of this special issue]
Curato, N. (ed.) (2017) A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte’s Early Presidency (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) [see also Curato’s articles] [eBook/ DS686.616.D88 DUE]
Gonzalez-Vicente, R. and Carroll, T. (2017) “Politics after National Development: Explaining the Populist Rise under Late Capitalism”, Globalizations 14(6): 991-1013
Hadiz, V.R. and Robison, R. (2017) “Competing Populisms in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia”, International Political Science Review 38(4): 488-502 [see also Hadiz’s other work]
Hewison, K. (2017) “Reluctant Populists: Learning Populism in Thailand”, International Political Science Review 38(4): 426-40
Heydarian, R.J. (2017) The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt against Elite Democracy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [eBook/ DS686.614 HEY]
Kenny, P.D. (2019) Populism in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ JQ750.A58 KEN]
Pasuk P. and Baker, C. (2011) “Populist Challenge to the Establishment: Thaksin Shinawatra and the Transformation of Thai politics”, in R. Robinson (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge) [eBook/ DS526.7 ROU]
Rodan, G. (2021) “Inequality and Political Representation in the Philippines and Singapore”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 51(2): 233-261
Thompson, M.R. (2016) “The Moral Economy of Electoralism and the Rise of Populism in the Philippines and Thailand”, Journal of Developing Societies 32(3): 242-269 [see also his other articles and chapters]
Thompson, M.R. (2021) “Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the ‘Death of Development’ in the Philippines”, Journal of Contemporary Asia early online, 16 April. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2021.1910859

Elliot, L. (2003) “ASEAN and Environmental Cooperation: Norms, Interests and Identity”, Pacific Review 16(1): 29-52
Hameiri, S. and Jones, L. (2015) Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 79-80, 91-123 [eBook/ JZ5588HAM]
Hamilton-Hart, N. (2015) “Multilevel (Mis)governance of Palm Oil Production”, Australian Journal of International Affairs 69(2): 164-84
Hirsch, P. (ed.) (2016) Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia (London: Routledge), esp. part 4 [eBook]
Hirsch, P. and Warren, C. (eds.) (2002) The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance (London: Routledge) [eBook/ HC441.Z9 POL]
Kenney-Lazar, M. (2012) “Plantation Rubber, Land Grabbing and Social-Property Transformation in Southern Laos”, Journal of Peasant Studies 39(3-4): 1017-37
LeBillon, P. (2000) “The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia, 1989-1999: War, Peace and Forest Exploitation”, Development and Change 31(4): 785-805
Lund, C. (2011) “Fragmented Sovereignty: Land Reform and Dispossession in Laos”, Journal of Peasant Studies 38(4): 885-905
Nesadurai, H.E.S. (2016) “ASEAN Environmental Cooperation, Transnational Private Governance, and the Haze: Overcoming the ‘Territorial Trap’ of State-Based Governance?”, TRaNS 5(1): 121-45
Pangsapa, P. and Smith, M.J. (2008) “Political Economy of Southeast Asian Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Developing Country Firms”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 38(4): 485-514
Resosudarmo, B.P. (ed.) (2005) The Politics and Economics of Indonesia’s Natural Resources (Singapore: ISEAS) [eBook/ HC447.5 POL]
Ross, M.L. (2001) Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ SD387.E58 ROS]
Simpson, A. (2018) “The Environment in Southeast Asia: Injustice, Conflict and Activism”, in Ba, A. and Beeson, M. (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia, 3rd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 164-80 [EBOOK/ TCOLL DS526.7 CON]
Woods, K. (2011) “Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Partnerships, Resource Concessions and Military-State Building in the Burma-China Borderlands”, Journal of Peasant Studies 38(4): 747-70
Baharamitash, R. (2005) Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia (London: Zed) [eBook/ HQ1240.5 BAH]
Bal, C.S. (2017) Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes: Guest Workers in Asia and the Gulf (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [HD5961.85 BAL/ eBook]
Bradley, C. and Szablewska, N. (2015) “Anti-Trafficking (ILL-)Efforts: The Legal Regulation of Women’s Bodies and Relationships in Cambodia”, Social Legal Studies 25(4): 461-488
Devashayam, T. (ed.) (2009) Gender Trends in Southeast Asia: Women Now, Women in the Future (Singapore: ISEAS) [eBook/ HQ1745.8 GEN]
Elias, J. (2011) “The Gender Politics of Economic Competitiveness in Malaysia’s Transition to a Knowledge-Economy”, Pacific Review 24(5): 529-552 [see also her many other articles on this topic]
Elias, J. and Louth, J. (2016) “Regional Disputes Over the Transnationalization of Domestic Labour: Malaysia’s ‘Maid Shortage’ and Foreign Relations with Indonesia and Cambodia”, in Elias, J. and Rethel, L. (eds.) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ HC441 EVE]
Ford, M. and Piper, N. (2007) “Southern Sites of Female Agency: Informal Regimes and Female Migrant Labour Resistance in East and Southeast Asia”, in Hobson, J.M. and Seabrooke, L. (eds.) Everyday Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 63-79 [eBook/ HF1359 EVE]
Ford, M. et al. (eds.) (2012) Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge) [eBook/ HD8690.8 LAB]
Hedman, E-L. (2008) “Refuge, Governmentality and Citizenship: Capturing ‘Illegal Migrants’ in Malaysia and Thailand”, Government and Opposition 43(2): 358-83 [available here]
Kaur, A. (2010) “Labour Migration Trends and Policy Challenges in Southeast Asia”, Policy and Society 29(4): 385-97 [see also her many other books and articles] [available here]
Kaur, A. (2007) “International Labour Migration in Southeast Asia: Governance of Migration and Women Domestic Workers”, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 15 (online). Available at http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue15/kaur.htm
Kaur, A. and Metcalfe, I. (eds.) (2006) Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [eBook/ HD5856.A78 MOB]
King, V.T. (2008) The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region (Copenhagen: NIAS Press), 197-224 [eBook/ HN690.8.A8 KIN]
Oh, Y.A. (2016) “Oligarchic Rule and Best Practice Migration Management: The Political Economy Origins of Labour Migration Regime of the Philippines”, Contemporary Politics 22(2): 197-214
Oishi, N. (2005) Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press) [EBOOK/ HD6181.85 OIS]
Peletz, M.G. (2020) “Neoliberalism and the Punitive Turn in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Implications for Gender, Sexuality, and Graduated Pluralism”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, early online: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13317
Peletz, M.G. (2009) Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times (New York: Routledge), ch.4-5 [EBOOK/ HQ1075.5.S64 PEL]
Rigg, J. (2016) Challenging Southeast Asian Development: The Shadows of Success (Abingdon: Routledge), ch. 4 [EBOOK/ HC441 RIG]
Sen, K. and Stivens, M. (eds.) (1998) Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (London: Routledge) [eBook/ HQ1745.8 GEN]
Yamanaka, K. and Piper, N. (2005) “Feminized Migration in East and Southeast Asia: Policies, Actions and Empowerment”, UNRISD Occasional Paper 11, December. Available at http://unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/ab82a6805797760f80256b4f005da1ab/06c975dec6217d4ec12571390029829a/$FILE/OP11%20web.pdf
Al Jazeera (2016) 101 East: Maid in Singapore. Documentary about domestic workers in Singapore.
Al Jazeera (2014) It’s a Man’s World. Documentary about sexual violence in Cambodia. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2013/03/201335205155725918.html
Al Jazeera (2014) We Built This City. Documentary about abuse of migrant workers in Singapore. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2014/05/built-this-city-2014557357413624.html
Asian Development Bank (1997) A Voice of Her Own. Documentary about women and the economy in Cambodia, the Philippines and Bangladesh. Dated and insufficiently critical, but a good introduction. https://vimeo.com/120351928
Islamist Politics
Buehler, M. (2016) The Politics of Shari’a Law: Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/ KNW469 BUE]
Hadiz, V.R. (2011) “No Turkish Delight: The Impasse of Islamic Party Politics in Indonesia”, Indonesia 92: 1-18
Hadiz, V.R. (2014) “A New Islamic Populism and the Contradictions of Development”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 44(1): 125-43
Hadiz, V.R. (2016) Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [eBook/BP173.7 HAD]
Hadiz, V.R. (2018) “Imagine All the People? Mobilising Islamic Populism for Right-Wing Politics in Indonesia”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 48(4): 566-83
Hadiz, V. (2021) “Indonesia’s Missing Left and the Islamisation of Dissent”, Third World Quarterly 42(3): 599-617
Hicks, J. (2012) “The Missing Link: Explaining the Political Mobilisation of Islam in Indonesia”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 42(1): 39-66
Saravanamuttu, J. (ed.) (2010) Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge) [EBOOK]
Teik, K.B. et al. (eds.) (2014) Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [eBook/ BP173.7 BET]

Islamist Violence/ Terrorism
Chalk, P. et al. (2009) The Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment (Santa Barbara: RAND Corporation) Available at: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG846.pdf
Gunaratna, R. (2017) “The Islamic State’s Northward Expansion in the Philippines”, Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses 9(5): 1-4. Available at: https://www.rsis.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CTTA-May-2017.pdf
Finnbogason, D. and Svensson, I. (2017) “The Missing Jihad: Why Have There Been No Jihadist Civil Wars in Southeast Asia?” Pacific Review 31(1): 96-115
Hamilton-Hart, N. (2005) “Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Expert Analysis, Myopia and Fantasy”, Pacific Review 18(3): 303-25
Hastings, J. (2010) No Man’s Land: Globalization, Territory and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) [eBook/HV6433.A785 HAS]
International Crisis Group (2017) Jihadism in Southern Thailand: A Phantom Menace (Brussels: ICG) Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/thailand/291-jihadism-southern-thailand-phantom-menace
International Crisis Group (2019) The Philippines: Militancy and the New Bangsamoro (Brussels: ICG) Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/philippines/301-philippines-militancy-and-new-bangsamoro
International Crisis Group (2020) Southern Thailand’s Peace Dialogue: Giving Substance to Form (Brussels: ICG) Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/thailand/304-southern-thailands-peace-dialogue-giving-substance-form
International Crisis Group (2021) Southern Philippines: Keeping Normalisation on Track in the Bangsamoro (Brussels: ICG) Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/philippines/313-southern-philippines-keeping-normalisation-track-bangsamoro
International Crisis Group (2021) The Philippines: Militancy and the New Bangsamoro (Brussels: ICG) Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/philippines/301-philippines-militancy-and-new-bangsamoro
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (2017) Marawi, the “East Asian Wilayah” and Indonesia, IPAC Report 38, 21 July. Available at: http://file.understandingconflict.org/file/2017/07/IPAC_Report_38.pdf

McCargo, D. (ed.) (2006) Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence, special issue of Critical Asian Studies 38(1), available here]
McCargo, D. (2008) Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) [eBook]
Mudhoffir, A.M. (2017) “Islamic Militias and Capitalist Development in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 47(4): 495-514
Quimpo, N.G. (2016) “Mindanao: Nationalism, Jihadism and Frustrated Peace”, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 3(1): 1-26
Sidel, J. (2006) Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) [EBOOK/ BL2112 SID]
Schreer, B. and Tan, T.H.A. (eds) Terrorism and Insurgency in Asia: A Contemporary Examination of Terrorist and Separatist Movements (Abingdon: Routledge) [ebook on order]
Singh, B. (2007) The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists (Westport: Praeger) [eBook/ HV6433.S644 SIN]
Tan, A.T.H. (ed.) (2009) A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) [eBook/ HV6433.A785 HAN]
Economic/ Societal
Bello, W. (2020) China: An Imperial Power in the Image of the West? (Bangkok: Focus on the Global South) [available here]
Diokno, M.S.I. et al. (eds.) (2019) China’s Footprints in Southeast Asia (Singapore: NUS Press), esp. ch.3-6 [eBook]
Kong, T.Y. (2019) “The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia and Responses from ASEAN Countries”, China 17(4): 24-33
Lechner, A.M. et al. (2019) The Belt and Road Initiative: Environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia (Singapore: ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute) [available here]
Lim, G. (2019) China’s Investment in ASEAN: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? GRIPS discussion paper 19-04, June [available here]
Morris-Jung, J. (ed.) (2018) In China’s Backyard: Policies and Politics of Chinese Resource Investments in Southeast Asia (Singapore: NUS Press) [eBook]
Nyiri, P. and Tan, D. (2017) Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China are Changing a Region (Seattle: University of Washington Press) [eBook]
Pavlićević, D. and Kratz, A. (2018) “Testing the China Threat Paradigm: China’s High-Speed Railway Diplomacy in Southeast Asia”, Pacific Review 31(2): 151-168
Rosser, A. (2020) “The Changing Aid Landscape and the Political Economy of Development in Southeast Asia”, in Carroll, T. et al. (eds) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 293-314 [eBook]
Santasombat, Y. (ed.) (2015) Impact of China’s Rise on the Mekong Region (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [HF1604.Z4.M465 IMP/ eBook]
Country Cases
Blanchard, J-M. (ed.) (2019) China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Southeast Asia: Dilemmas, Doubts, and Determination (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan) [eBook]
Camba, A. (2021) How Duterte Strong-Armed Chinese Dam-Builders But Weakened Philippine Institutions (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment), available at https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/15/how-duterte-strong-armed-chinese-dam-builders-but-weakened-philippine-institutions-pub-84764
Heiduk, F. and Sakaki, A. (eds.) (2019) Special Issue: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from East Asia (II), East Asia 36(3) [articles on Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia]
Lim, A.C-H. and Cibulka, F. (eds.) (2019) China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era (London: Lexington Books) [eBook]
Liu, H. and Lim, G. (2018) “The Political Economy of a Rising China in Southeast Asia: Malaysia’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative”, Journal of Contemporary China 28(116): 216-31
Loughlin, N. (2021) “Chinese Linkage, Leverage, and Cambodia’s Transition to Hegemonic Authoritarianism”, Democratization 28(4): 840-857
Loughlin, N. and Grimsditch, M. (2021) “How Local Political Economy Dynamics are Shaping the Belt and Road Initiative”, Third World Quarterly early online 6 August, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2021.1950528?journalCode=ctwq20 [on Cambodia but useful more generally]
Malhi, A. (2018) “Race, Debt and Sovereignty – The ‘China Factor’ in Malaysia’s GE14”, The Round Table 107(6): 717-28
Peng, N. (ed.) (2021) The Reshaping of China-Southeast Asia Relations in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Singapore: Springer) [on order]
Transnational Institute (2019) Selling the Silk Road Spirit, Myanmar Policy Briefing 22, 7 November [available here]
Woods, K. (2011) “Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Partnerships, Resource Concessions and Military-State Building in the Burma–China Borderlands”, Journal of Peasant Studies 38(4): 747-770 [see also Woods’ many other articles and reports with Tom Kramer with the Transnational Institute]
Security
Ba, A. and Kuik, C-C. (2017) “Southeast Asia and China: Engagement and Constrainment”, in Ba, A. and Beeson, M. (eds.) Contemporary Southeast Asia, 3rd ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 229-247 [eBook]
Hayton, B. (2014) The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press) [eBook]
International Crisis Group (2012) Stirring up the South China Sea (I) (Beijing: International Crisis Group) [available here; see also Parts II and IV of this report]
Kipgen, N. (2018) “ASEAN and China in the South China Sea Disputes”, Asian Affairs 49(3): 433-48 [available here]
O’Neill, D.C. (2018) Dividing ASEAN and Conquering the South China Sea: China’s Financial Power Projection (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press) [eBook]
Raine, S. and Le Mière, C. (2013) Regional Disorder: The South China Sea Disputes (London: IISS) [eBook]
Storey, I. (2017) “ASEAN’s Failing Grade in the South China Sea”, in Rozman, G. and Liow, J.C. (eds.) International Relations and Asia’s Southern Tier: ASEAN, Australia, and India (Singapore: Springer), 111-24 [eBook]