Conflict and Stability in Southeast Asia

Conflict and Stability in Southeast Asia
Author: Mark W. Zacher
Publisher: Garden City, N.J. : Anchor Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN:

Monograph on international relations in South East Asia - covers the foreign policy role of USA and role of China in the region, and includes internal politics and regional level conflicts, etc. References.

Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia
Author: Kusuma Snitwongse
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9812303405

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.

Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia
Author: Mikio Oishi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811000425

This book looks at major contemporary conflicts —intra and interstate— in Southeast Asia from a conflict management perspective. Starting with the view that the conventional ASEAN conflict-management methods have ceased to be effective, it looks for new conflict-management patterns and trends by investigating seven contemporary cases of conflict in the region. Focusing on the incompatibilities involved in each case and examining how they have been managed—whether by integration, co-existence, elimination or maneuvering around the conflict—the book sheds new light on the significance of managing conflict in achieving and maintaining the stability of the Southeast Asian region. It makes a significant theoretical contribution to the field of peace and conflict studies by proposing the concept of “mediation regime” as the key to understanding current conflict management within ASEAN.

Fighting Armed Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Fighting Armed Conflicts in Southeast Asia
Author: Shane Joshua Barter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 110864323X

This Element seeks to make sense of Southeast Asia's numerous armed conflicts. It makes four contributions. First, this study provides a typology, distinguishing between revolutionary, secessionist, and communal conflicts. The first two are types of insurgencies, while the latter are ethnic conflicts. Second, this study emphasizes the importance of ethnicity in shaping conflict dynamics. This is true even for revolutionary conflicts, which at first glance may appear unrelated to ethnicity. A third contribution relates to broad conflict trends. Revolutionary and secessionist conflicts feature broad historical arcs, with clear peaks and declines, while communal conflicts occur more sporadically. The fourth contribution ties these points together by focusing on conflict management. Just as ethnicity shapes conflicts, ethnic leaders and traditions can also promote peace. Cultural mechanisms are especially important for managing communal conflicts, the lone type not declining in Southeast Asia.

The Politics of Death

The Politics of Death
Author: Aurel Croissant
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume analyzes four aspects of political violence in Southeast Asia: elections and violence; intra-ethnic conflict; communist insurgency; terrorism and religious extremism and lethal crime and politics. Together, the ten case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand challenge the idea that democratic governance will bring an end to internal violent conflict. As some examples in the region suggest, semi-democratic polities in Southeast Asia even may be more successful in reducing levels of internal violence, compared to new democracies in their neighbourhood and other types of political regime they have tried in the past.

The Post Cold War Order in Asia & the Challenge to ASEAN

The Post Cold War Order in Asia & the Challenge to ASEAN
Author: Michael B. Yahuda
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9812303588

This paper was delivered by Professor Michael Yahuda, Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, at the Fourth Asia and Pacific Lecture organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore on 24 August 2005. Contents Introduction The Impact of the End of the Cold War in East Asia The Question of Regional Stability The Impact of the Great Powers on Security in Southeast Asia Conclusion.

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia
Author: Linell E. Cady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134153058

A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and several well-organized terrorist groups, making understanding of the dynamics of religious conflict and violence particularly urgent. By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in the region and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. The dearth of other literature on the intersection of religion, politics and violence in contemporary South and Southeast Asia makes the timing of this book particularly relevant. This book will of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies.

Does ASEAN Matter? Reconciling Realist and Constructivist Approaches to Regional Security in Southeast Asia

Does ASEAN Matter? Reconciling Realist and Constructivist Approaches to Regional Security in Southeast Asia
Author: Peter Goldschagg
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3638866556

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: A (sehr gut/excellent), Victoria University of Wellington, course: Regional integration in Southeast Asia, 51 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Focusing on ASEAN's relevance as a regional security organisation, this study aims to expound the prevailing driving forces, interests and obstacles to an effective crisis management. Drawing on the theoretical background of neo-realist and constructivist approaches, the paper argues that neither the neo-realist nor the constructivist approach is able to fully conceptualise ASEAN's role in regional security. While only an eclectic, multi-dimensional approach grasps the variety of its multiple facets, the latter seems to be highly contingent on the interplay of external structural and internal sociological dynamics. While the organisation appears in this out sketched context as a relatively important player in times of political and economic stability, having its merits in conflict-preventive measures through the building of trust and the construction of a common identity, the regime shows strong enervations in times of crisis.