| Southeast Asia: Past Trends, Current Trajectories |
 Description:
In the past and especially during the Cold War, Southeast Asia was deeply
divided and functioned as a regional subsystem of larger bipolar structures.
Following the dissipation of bipolarity in international relations, Southeast
Asia has consolidated itself internally much more cohesively. The ideological
divides of the past have disappeared and there is far greater regional
coherence, notwithstanding a number of problems related to specific countries.
Whereas the region is actively reverberating outwards in search of a larger
Asian community or consensus, larger international structural dictates
remain in place.
 Objective:
The lecture is intended to tease out and identify the existence of convergent
and divergent trends in regional developments and trajectories..
 Recommended Readings:
Haacke, Jurgen. ASEANfs Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, development and prospects. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Jayasuriya, Kanishka. (ed.), Asian Regional Governance: Crisis and Change. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Name:GANESAN, Narayanan
Present Post and Title: Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute Hiroshima City University
Final Education: Northern Illinois University, Ph.D.
Specialized Field: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, International Relations
Recent Publications:
*Myanmar: State, Society, Ethnicity (co-edited with Kyaw Yin Hlaing)
(Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007)
Realism and Interdependence in Singapore's Foreign Policy. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
*"The Collapse of Authoritarian Regimes in Thailand and Indonesia:
Structural and Contextual Factors", Asian Journal of Social Science (Brill, Leiden) 32:1 (2004): 3-22.
"Thaksin and the Politics of Domestic and Regional Political Consolidation in Thailand" Contemporary Southeast Asia (ISEAS, Singapore) 26:1 (April 2004): 26-44.
"Malaysia in 2003: Leadership Transition with a Tall Shadow", Asian Survey (Berkeley, USA) 44:1 (January/February 2004): 70-77.
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| Dr N Ganesan taught at the Department of Political Science and Southeast
Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore from 1990 to 2003.
His teaching, research and publication interests are in contemporary Southeast
Asian politics and foreign policy. His favourite hobbies are vegetable
gardening, deep sea fishing and cooking. |
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Hiroshima City University
Faculty of International Studies
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