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The Chinese in Southeast Asia and beyond : socioeconomic and political dimensions
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ISBN: 9812790489 9789812790484 9789812790477 9812790470 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing,

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The Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades. The rise of China as a global economic power and its profound influence over Southeast Asia has cast a spotlight on the role of Southeast Asian Chinese in the region's economic relations with China. The Southeast Asian Chinese as an economic force and their growing importance with China are, to a certain extent, determined by the nature and development of their communities. This book uses a multifaceted approach to unravel the forces that...


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Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9812307710 9812307729 9812307702 981445933X Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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This rich collection of essays explores the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations in Southeast Asia since 1945. Academics and practitioners trace three themes - transformations within Southeast Asian countries, the actors and processes that contributed to these changes, and new dynamics in foreign relations. These diachronic essays examine how engagement among Southeast Asians and between regional and outside actors have affected patterns of democracy, development, and international relations. By looking back to understand the contemporary political and economic landscape of Southeast Asia, these essays shed light on how modern Southeast Asia has evolved. Special focus centres on U.S. engagement with the region, by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Through its macrohistorical synthesis of changes in the region over time, this book offers an accessible lens to understand contemporary Southeast Asia.


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Dimensions of locality : Muslim saints, their place and space (yearbook of the sociology of Islam No. 8)
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ISBN: 3839409683 3899429680 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit ›the local‹ in opposition to ›the universal‹, in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as ›localized‹ versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.


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Southeast Asian Affairs 2008
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ISBN: 9812307915 9812307907 9812307893 Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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Since its inception in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs (SEAA) has been an indispensable annual reference for generations of policy-makers, scholars, analysts, journalists, and others. Succinctly written by regional and international experts, SEAA illuminates significant issues and events of the previous year in each of the Southeast Asian nations and the region as a whole. Southeast Asian Affairs 2008 provides an informed and readable analysis of the events and developments in the region in 2007. In the regional section, the first two articles provide the political and economic overview of Southeast Asia. They are followed by an article on India's geopolitics and Southeast Asia, and two articles on ASEAN. Eleven country reviews as well as four country-specific thematic chapters follow, delving into domestic political, economic, security, and social developments during 2007 and their implications for countries in the region and beyond.


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Regional outlook : Southeast Asia 2008-2009
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ISBN: 9819812307682 9812307680 9812307672 Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of SouthEast Asian Studies,

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Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region, and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.


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Production Networks and Industrial Clusters : Integrating Economies in Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9812307648 981230763X Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore : ISEAS Pub.,

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In this book, the focus is on how developing economies in Southeast Asia ride on the wave of globalization that brings about benefits and economic growth with expanding trade and investment linkages. The central concept used in this study is production networks and industrial clusters. With examples from Indonesia and Malaysia (electronics industry), Singapore (biomedical science industry), and Thailand (automotive industry), the book explains how production networks and industrial clusters have played crucial roles in their industrial development. This book also discusses the progress of regional economic cooperation as well as the development of supply chain management and logistics in Southeast Asia, which facilitate the extension of production networks into a broader area.


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Götterbilder : Südasien, Südostasien, Himalayaländer : Ausstellung, Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien
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ISBN: 9789053497265 9783854971443 Year: 2008 Publisher: Gent Wien Snoeck Museum für Völkerkunde

Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII : actes des huitièmes Rencontres internationales d'archéozoologie de l'Asie du sud-ouest et des régions adjacentes, Lyon, 28 juin-1er juillet 2006 = proceedings of the eighth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent arreas, Lyon, June 28-July 1, 2006
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ISBN: 9073348498 9073348250 9036707919 9036712432 9077170014 9077170022 9782356680051 2356680055 Year: 2008 Volume: 49 Publisher: Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux,


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Rising India and Indian communities in East Asia
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ISBN: 9812308687 9812308008 9812307990 Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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This edited volume containing thirty-five chapters focuses on three main contemporary issues: the phenomenon of "new Indians" in the past five decades, the impact of rising India on settled Indian communities, and the recent migrants. By examining these interrelated aspects, this study seeks to address questions like: what does "Rising India" mean to Indian communities in East Asia? How are members of Indian communities responding to India's rise? Will India pay greater attention to people of Indian origin? And last but not least, will Indians in East Asia identify themselves with their ancestral land or view such identification as problematic?

Taking southeast Asia to market : commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age
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ISBN: 9780801474330 9780801446627 0801446627 0801474337 Year: 2008 Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell university press,

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