num_pages: 438
description: This is not only the best collection of essays on the political economy of Southeast Asia but also as a singular achievement of the Murdoch School one of the rarest of books that demonstrates how knowledge production travels across generations institutions and time periods thereby continually enriching itself. No course on Southeast Asia can afford to miss it as its core text. (Professor Amitav Acharya American University USA)This book  the fourth in a path-breaking series  demonstrates why a critical political economy approach is more crucial than ever for understanding Southeast Asia's transformation. Across a wide range of topics the book explains how capitalist development and globalisation are reshaping the societies economies and politics of a diverse group of countries casting light on the deep sources of economic and social power in the region. This is a book that every student of Southeast Asia needs to read. (Professor Edward Aspinall Australian National University Australia)This book does what a work on political economy should challenge existing paradigms in order to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of social transformation. This volume is distinctive in three ways. First it eschews methodological nationalism and focuses on how the interaction of national regional and global forces are shaping and reshaping systems of governance mass politics economies labor-capital relations migration and gender relations across the region. Second it is a bold effort to show how the Murdoch School which focuses on the dynamic synergy of internal class relations and global capitalism provides a better explanatory framework for understanding social change in Southeast Asia than the rival developmental state and historical institutionalist approaches. Third alongside established luminaries in the field it showcases the younger generation of political economists doing pathbreaking work on different dimensions of the political economy of the region. (Walden Bello State University of New York at Binghamton USA and Former Member of the Philippines House of Representatives)This very timely fourth edition explores Southeast Asias political economy within the context of hyperglobalisation and Chinas pronounced social-structural impacts on international politics finance and economics over the past decade and a half. The volume successfully adopts a cross-cutting thematic approach while also conveying the diversity and divergences among the Southeast Asian states and economies. This will be an important resource for scholars of International Relations and Comparative Politics who need to take an interest in a dynamic and increasingly significant part of Asia. (Professor Evelyn Goh Australian National University Australia)This ambitious collection takes a consistent theoretical approach and applies it to a thematic comparative analysis across Southeast Asia. The yield is the social political and economic forces constituting the current conjuncture are not simply invoked they are thoroughly identified and explained. By posing the deceptively simple questions of what is happening and why the authors demonstrate the reciprocal relation between theory-building and empirical inquiry providing a model of engaged scholarship with global resonance. Bravo! (Professor Tania Li University of Toronto Canada)Counteracting the spaceless and flattened geography of much literature on uneven development this book delivers a forensic examination of the unevenness of geographical development in Southeast Asia and the relations of force shaping capital state nature and civil society. This is the most compelling theoretical and empirical political economy book available on Southeast Asia. (Professor Adam David Morton University of Sydney Australia)A vital book for all scholars students and practitioners concerned with political economy and development this volume combines cutting-edge theory with rich and wide-ranging empirical analysis. It is terrific to see the continued success of this book with this fully revised fourth edition. (Professor Nicola Philips Kings College London UK)The Political Economy of Southeast Asia has become a leading reference for students of the region. With its breadth of geographic scope timely themes clarity of prose and rigour of analysis Carroll Hameiri and Jones have ensured that with this fourth edition the volume will continue its landmark status. The book which brings together prominent experts in the field will not only be of immense interest to scholars studying Southeast Asia but also those seeking to understand the multifaceted nature of the political economy of uneven development in contemporary capitalism. (Professor Susanne Soederberg Queens University Canada)The Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University has long produced leading analyses of the social economic and political developments in Southeast Asia. This volume carries on that wonderful tradition. It brings together top-class scholars to challenge our assumptions about one of the most dynamic parts of the world. This collection is a crucial read for anyone interested in understanding trends in Southeast Asias development today and into the future. (Professor Richard Stubbs McMaster University Canada)This fourth volume in a distinguished series provides a welcome and timely update of the Murdoch Schools distinctive approach to understanding the evolving political economy of Southeast Asia. Its theoretical depth and wide empirical scope will be of great value to scholars students and practitioners seeking a systematic understanding of the political economy dynamics in the Asian region and more broadly of states and regions embedded in a complex unstable global political economy. (Professor Andrew Walter University of Melbourne)This all-new fourth edition of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia constitutes a state-of-the-art comprehensive analysis of the political economic social and ecological development of one of the worlds most dynamic regions. With contributions from world-leading experts the volume is unified by a single theoretical the Murdoch School of political economy which foregrounds struggles over power and resources and the evolving global context of hyperglobalisation. Themes considered include gender populism the transformation of the state regional governance aid and the environment. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students across multiple disciplines including political economy development studies international relations and area studies. The findings of contributors will also be of value to civil society policymakers and anyone interested in Southeast Asia and its development.
language: English
title: The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation
publisher: None