Full Description
Southeast Asia is among emerging economies that have become important drivers of the world economy. ASEAN has furthered the region's economic integration. Yet, growth remains dependent on foreign investment. Inequality has grown or remained high. Democracy, instead of consolidating, has stalled or regressed.
Changing Constellations of Southeast Asia seeks to:
Shed light on the gap between Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia from a variety of viewpoints, across trade and industry, services and education and language policies;
Examine institutions and elite capture to understand why middle-tier Southeast Asian countries have failed in following the 'East Asian miracle';
Examine China's growing influence and how this growing role affects Southeast Asia as a constellation.
Contributing to critical political economy and comparative development studies in East Asia, this timely volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in Southeast Asia studies, International Political Economy, Development sociology and economics, Social Policy and Asian Politics.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Editors
Introduction
1 Southeast and Northeast Asia
1 Jan Nederveen Pieterse
What happened to the Miracle Eight? Looking East in the twenty-first century
2 Andrew Kam Jia Yi
Dynamics of trade and value added in Factory Asia
3 Fazal Rizvi
Higher education in Southeast Asia
4 Zawiah Yahya
The rise of global English and language policies of China, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand
2 Institutions
5 Terence Gomez and Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux
Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms:
Evolving State-Business Relations in Malaysia
6 Marc Saxer
How to escape the transformation trap: Building social consensus for sustainable development
7 Tim Rackett
Thailand: Exception to the rule, or rule by exception?
3 Southeast Asia and China
8 Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Changing constellations of Southeast Asia
9 Abdul Rahman Embong
The charms of China's New Silk Routes: Connecting the dots in Southeast Asia
10 Siew Yean Tham
Examining the shift to services: Malaysia and China compared
11 Sufian Jusoh
Economic diplomacy in ASEAN: the case of Myanmar and China investment relations
12 Rashila Ramli
Southeast Asia and China relations: Desecuritizing the South China Sea
