Abstract This paper is aimed at probing the effects of economic reform on the center-periphery relations in a society under massive transformations. In doing so,…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract In conducting research, international relations scholars typically seek to confirm their empirical expectations (or hypotheses). This paper adopts the opposite approach, focusing on the…
Abstract Since the beginning of the reform policy, China has implemented a process of Constitutionalism in order to maintain the regime. This process evolved from…
Abstract This article surveys trends in Indonesian foreign policy. It argues that with the recent surge in economic growth at the end of the 1980s,…
Abstract Abstract Studies on leadership stress the leaders–followers relationship in which leaders are supposed to induce followers to act for certain goals of both leaders…
Abstract Fifty years ago, the late Premier Zhou Enlai paid separate visits to India and Myanmar, during which joint government statements were issued to define…
Abstract Over the last decade, China has devoted particular attention to developing its interests in the Mekong region, comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.…
Summary What are the major challenges, fault lines, and potential adversities (these terms are used synonymously), that China’s economic development will encounter over the next…
Abstract Over the last few years the institutionalization of the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) process has started to take shape. Government leaders, ministers, and senior…
Abstract Economic and political crisis in Indonesia has had a marked impact on Indonesia’s ability to participate fully in international affairs, including its relations with…
Summary There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia’s moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy…
Abstract Since Vietnam, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar, and Cambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the 1990s, concerns have been…
Summary Despite the doomsday predictions of the domino theorists following the fall of South Vietnam, the five non-communist countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia,…
Abstract This paper assesses the capacity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to moderate great-power relations in East Asia, especially in light of…
Abstract Since the Asian financial crisis of 1998, regional scholars and diplomats have maintained that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) represents an evolving…
