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The Malaysian General Elections of 2013: The Last Attempt at Secular-inclusive Nation-building?

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2013
This paper looks at the Malaysian General Election campaign of 2013, and focuses primarily on the 1Malaysia project that was foregrounded by the administration of Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Farish A. Noor
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The Media Politics of Latin America’s Leftist Governments La política de medios de los gobiernos de izquierda en América Latina

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2012
Does Latin America’s left turn matter in media politics? Has ideology any impact on governments’ practices and policies regarding media and journalistic institutions? This essay focuses on the existence of a specific kind of media activism on the part of
Philip Kitzberger
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Reconciling Trade and Environmental Protection in ASEAN-China Relations: More than Political Window Dressing?

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2011
Has the growing pro-environment rhetoric in ASEAN-China relations resulted in the effective mainstreaming of environmental issue into trade agreements and multilateral cooperation frameworks?
Joern Dosch
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Governance Obstacles to Geothermal Energy Development in Indonesia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
Despite having 40 per cent of the world’s potential for geothermal power production, Indonesia exploits less than five per cent of its own geothermal resources.
Matthew S. Winters, Matthew Cawvey
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Micro-social and Contextual Sources of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America Las fuentes microsociales y contextuales de las actitudes democráticas en América Latina

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2011
Many Latin American countries democratized between 1975 and 2000, and research has confirmed that contemporary Latin Americans hold democratic political attitudes.
Eduardo Salinas, John A. Booth
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Review: Askew, Mark (ed.): Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2011
Review of the edited volume: Askew, Mark (ed.) (2010), Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books (= King Prajadhipok’s Institute Yearbook No. 5 (2008/09)).
Napisa Waitoolkiat
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Vietnam: Economic Strategy and Economic Reality

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2016
The paper examines the nature of the growing Vietnamese economy and its changing structural characteristics and contrasts this with two core elements of official thinking.
Adam Fforde
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Book Review: Mertha, Andrew: Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
Book Review of the Monograph: Mertha, Andrew (2014), Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979.
Chow Bing NGEOW
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Jakartans, Institutionally Volatile

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2014
Jakarta recently has gained even more central political attention in Indonesia since Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Basuki Purnama (Ahok) became, respectively, the province’s governor and vice-governor in 2012.
Masaaki OKAMOTO
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Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling “traditional” or “customary” dispute resolution practices with newly established state-based legal systems based on the rule of law. For Timor-Leste, these tensions are pronounced in
Rebecca Strating, Beth Edmondson
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