Political legitimacy in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: the quest for moral authority
By: edited by Muthiah Alagappa.
Contributors: Alagappa, Muthiah.
Series: Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments -- Asia, Southeastern.; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government.
Description: The book undertakes an ethnographic country-by-country study of how Asian states conceive of their security. For each country, it identifies and explains the security concerns and behavior of central decision makers, asking who or what is to be protected, against what potential threats, and how security policies have changed over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-432) and index.