Here's a short review I wrote for Amazon.com on a new book called Southeast Asia in Political Science.
Critics agree that much of Southeast Asia desperately needs judicial reform and rule of law. Yet, there is remarkably little comparative scholarship on law and legal institutions in the region. In this blog, I'll follow constitutional developments in Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Book Review: Poli-Sci in SEA
Erik Kuhonta, Dan Slater, Tuong Vu (editors), Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis
(2008)
Here's a short review I wrote for Amazon.com on a new book called Southeast Asia in Political Science.
It's a useful corrective to the overly qualitative, country-specific nature of Southeast Asian Studies. In addition to my comments below, I also wish the book had included a chapter discussing the literature (or lack thereof) of law and courts in the region. Here it is:
Here's a short review I wrote for Amazon.com on a new book called Southeast Asia in Political Science.
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