Southeast Asia Research Centre Working Papers Series

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The Working Papers series is organised in the following table by year of publication. To look for papers published in a particular year, click the year. Alternatively, simply scroll down the page to browse all papers.

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2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

2001
Working Paper & Date	Author	Title
1, April 2001	Kevin Hewison	Pathways to Recovery: Bankers, Business and Nationalism in Thailand
2, April 2001	Kanishka Jayasuriya	Governance, Post Washington Consensus and the New Anti Politics
3, April 2001	Kanishka Jayasuriya	Southeast Asia's Embedded Mercantilism in Crisis: International Strategies and Domestic Coalitions
4, May 2001	Kevin Hewison	Nationalism, Populism, Dependency: Old Ideas for a New Southeast Asia?
5, May 2001	Herb Thompson	Indonesia: The Denouement of Forest Management Following Economic, Environmental and Political Crises
6, May 2001	Zang Xiaowei	Resource Dependency, Chinese Capitalism, and Intercorporate Ties in Singapore
7, May 2001	Raymond Chan	The Sustainability of the Asian Welfare System after the Financial Crisis: Reflections on the Case of Hong Kong
8, May 2001	Kevin Hewison	Thailand: Class Matters
9, June 2001	Maniemai Thongyou	Sub-contracting Industry in Rural Villages: Fish-nets in Rural Thailand
10, June 2001	Mark Beeson	The Political Consequences of the Southeast Asian Region's Economic Vulnerability
11, June 2001	Michael Vatikiotis	Fixing Southeast Asia: Mixed Blessings
12, October 2001	Michael Kelly Connors	Ideological Aspects of Democratisation in Thailand: Mainstreaming Localism
13, October 2001	Raymond Chan	The Welfare System in Southeast Asia: Development and Challenges
14, November 2001	Vivienne Wee	Gender and Development in Post-Crisis Southeast Asia
15, November 2001	Kevin Hewison	Liberalism and Globalisation
16, November 2001	Vivienne Wee	Political Faultlines in Southeast Asia: Movements for Ethnic Autonomy as Nations of Intent
17, November 2001	David Brown	Why Might Constructed Nationalist and Ethnic Ideologies Come Into Confrontation With Each Other?
2002
18, January 2002	Amy Sim	Organising Discontent: NGOs for Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong
19, January 2002	Michael Jacobsen	Cross-Border Communities and Deterritorialising Identities. Assessing the Diaspora Triangle: Migrant-Host-Home
20, January 2002	Philip Bowring	East Asia: Centrifugal or Centripetal
21, January 2002	Graeme Lang	Deforestation, Floods, and State Reactions in China and Thailand
22, March 2002	Vivienne Wee	Ethno-nationalism in Process: Atavism, Ethnicity and Indigenism in Riau
23, March 2002	Thomas M. McKenna	Saints, Scholars and the Idealised Past in Philippine Muslim Separatism
24, March 2002	Kanishka Jayasuriya	Globalisation, International Standards and The Rule of Law: A New Symbolic Politics
25, April 2002	Alex H. Choi	Non-Governmental Organisations and Democratisation: The 1992 Bangkok Uprising Revisited
26, May 2002	Michael Jacobsen	Nation-making and the Politicisation of Ethnicity in Post-Suharto Indonesia
27, July 2002	Andrew Brown Bundit Thonachaisetavut Kevin Hewison	Labour Relations and Regulation in Thailand: Theory and Practice
28, July 2002	Nick Thomas	From ASEAN to an East Asian Community? The Role of Functional Co-operation
29, July 2002	Michael Jacobsen	‘To be or what to be – that is the question’. On Factionalism and Secessionism in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
30, September 2002	Vivienne Wee Kanishka Jayasuriya	New Geographies and Temporalities of Power: Exploring the New Fault Lines of Southeast Asia
31, September 2002	Vivienne Wee	Social Fragmentation in Indonesia: A Crisis from Suharto’s New Order
32, September 2002	Mark Beeson	East Asia and the International Financial Institutions: The Politics of Regional Regulatory Reform
33, September 2002	Richard Robison Garry Rodan Kevin Hewison	Transplanting the Regulatory State in Southeast Asia: A Pathology of Rejection
34, October 2002	Vivienne Wee	Will Indonesia Hold? Past, Present and Future in a Fragmenting State
35, October 2002	William A. Callahan	Diaspora, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Overseas Chinese and Neo-Nationalism in China and Thailand
36, October 2002	Pasuk Phongpaichit Chris Baker	‘The Only Good Populist is a Rich Populist’: Thaksin Shinawatra and Thailand’s Democracy
37, October 2002	Catherine C.H. Chiu	Labour Relations and Regulation in Hong Kong: Theory and Practice
38, November 2002	Malcolm Falkus Stephen Frost	Labour Relations and Regulation in Cambodia: Theory and Practice Full Version (The file is large, downloads may be slow) Main Report, Appendices, Figure 1
2003
39, January 2003	Martin Painter	Marketisation, Integration and State Restructuring in Vietnam: The Case of State Owned Enterprise Reform
40, March 2003	Raymond K.H. Chan Moha Asri Abdullah Zikri Muhammad	Labour Relations and Regulation in Malaysia: Theory and Practice
41, April 2003	Michael Jacobsen	Reconceptualising the Ethnic Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Outer Limits of Ethnic Affiliations
42, April 2003	Michael Kelly Connors	The Reforming State: Security, Development and Culture in Democratic Times
43, April 2003	Anne Loveband	Positioning the Product: Indonesian Migrant Women Workers in Contemporary Taiwan [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
44, April 2003	Kevin Hewison	A Preliminary Analysis of Thai Workers in Hong Kong: Survey Results [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
45, May 2003	Kevin Hewison	The Politics of Neo-Liberalism: Class and Capitalism in Contemporary Thailand
46, May 2003	Michael Jacobsen	Tightening the Unitary State: The Inner Workings of Indonesian Regional Autonomy
47, May 2003	Vedi R. Hadiz	Decentralisation and Democracy in Indonesia: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives
48, July 2003	Huei-ying Kuo	Nationalism Against Its People? Chinese Business and Nationalist Activities in Inter-War Singapore, 1919-1941 (The file is about 3.5MB, downloads may be slow)
49, August 2003	Vivienne Wee Amy Sim	Transnational labour networks in female labour migration: mediating between Southeast Asian women workers and international labour markets [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
50, August 2003	Allen Chun	Who Wants To Be Diasporic?
51, September 2003	William Case	Malaysia: New Reforms, Old Continuities, Tense Ambiguities
52, September 2003	Vedi R. Hadiz Richard Robison	Neo-Liberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations: The Indonesian Paradox
53, September 2003	Li Qi Bill Taylor Stephen Frost	Labour Relations and Regulation in Vietnam: Theory and Practice
54, November 2003	Michael Jacobsen	Chinese Muslims in Indonesia: politics, economy, faith and expediency
55, November 2003	Stephen Frost Catherine C.H. Chiu	Labour Relations and Regulation in Singapore: Theory and Practice
56, December 2003	Adrian Vickers	The Country and the Cities [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
57, December 2003	Kathleen Weekley	Saving Pennies for the State. A New Role for Filipino Migrant Workers? [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
2004
58, January 2004	Ken Young	Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in East Asian Households: Globalisation, social change and the double burden of market and patriarchal disciplines [A SEARC CAPSTRANS Paper]
59, January 2004	Kanishka Jayasuriya Kevin Hewison	The Anti-Politics of Good Governance: From Global Social Policy to a Global Populism?
60, February 2004	Michael Jacobsen	De-linking the Chinese Diaspora. On Manadonese Chinese Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi
61, March 2004	Vedi R. Hadiz	Indonesian Local Party Politics: A Site of Resistance to Neo-Liberal Reform
62, March 2004	Andrew Brown Kevin Hewison	Labour Politics in Thaksin’s Thailand
63, May 2004	Kevin Hewison Garry Rodan	Closing The Circle?: Globalization, Conflict and Political Regimes
64, May 2004	Mark Beeson	Multilateralism, American Power and East Asian Regionalism
65, July 2004	Graeme Lang	Cultural Intrusions and Religious Syncretism: The Case of Caodaism in Vietnam
66, July 2004	Alex H. Choi	Migrant Workers in Macao: Labour and Globalisation
67, July 2004	Stephen Frost	Chinese Outward Direct Investment in Southeast Asia: How Much and What Are the Regional Implications?
68, August 2004	Florencio R. Riguera	Environment and Social Justice: Familiar Norms and Contingent Settings – A Philippine Case Study
69, August 2004	Adam Fforde	Vietnamese State Owned Enterprises: ‘Real Property’, Commercial Performance and Political Economy
70, September 2004	Adam Fforde	State Owned Enterprises, Law and a Decade of Market-Oriented Socialist Development in Vietnam
71, September 2004	Dennis Arnold	The Situation of Burmese Migrant Workers in Mae Sot, Thailand
72, September 2004	Khoo Boo Teik	Searching for Islam in Malaysian Politics: Confluences, Divisions and Governance
73, October 2004	Vedi R. Hadiz	Indonesia: Order and Terror in a Time of Empire [A SEARC-Asia Research Centre Paper]
74, November 2004	Joy Y. Lam	Religious Conversion and Reconstruction of Identities: The Case of Chinese Muslim Converts in Malaysia
75, November 2004	Philip S. Robertson Jr. Somsak Plaiyoowong	The Struggle of the Gina Workers in Thailand: Inside a Successful International Labour Solidarity Campaign
2005
76, May 2005	Martin Painter	Thaksinocracy or Managerialization? Reforming the Thai Bureaucracy
77, June 2005	Graeme Lang Cathy Hiu Wan Chan	The Impact of China on Southeast Asian Forests
78, July 2005	Vivienne Wee	Melayu, Indigenism and the 'Civilising Process': Claims and Entitlements in Contested Territories
79, August 2005	Michael H. Nelson	Analyzing Provincial Political Structures in Thailand: Phuak, Trakun, and Hua Khanaen
80, August 2005	Maniemai Thongyou Dusadee Ayuwat	Social Network of Laotian migrant workers in Thailand
81, December 2005	Michele Ford	Accountable to whom? Trade unions, labour NGOs and the question of accountability in Indonesia
2006
82, November 2006	Michele Ford Nicola Piper	Southern Sites of Female Agency: Informal Regimes and Female Migrant Labour Resistance in East and Southeast Asia
2007
83, January 2007	William Case	Democracy’s Quality and Breakdown: New Lessons from Thailand
84, February 2007	Jan Stark	Malaysia’s Foreign Policies and a New Asian Regionalism
85, April 2007	Stephen McCarthy	The Politics of Piety: Pageantry and the Struggle for Buddhism in Burma
86, May 2007	William Case Phoebe So	Hong Kong’s 2007 Chief Executive Election:Comparators and Consequences
87, May 2007	Michael H. Nelson	People’s Sector Politics’ (Kanmueang Phak Prachachon) in Thailand: Problems of Democracy in Ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
88, June 2007	Edo Andriesse	Personal Power Networks and Economic Development in Satun (Thailand) and Perlis (Malaysia)
89, October 2007	Vivienne Wee	A Cultural Economy of Regionalisation: Ethnicity and Capital in the Changing Relations between China and Southeast Asia (in Chinese)
90, October 2007	Michael Jacobsen	Decentred Diaspora or Grounded Cosmopolitanism? – On Negotiated Identities and International Linkages in Southeast Asia (in Chinese)
91, October 2007	Stephen Frost Marry Ho	Mainland Investment on the Move: State-owned Enterprises and Outward Direct Investment in Southeast Asia (in Chinese)
92, October 2007	Wang Wangbo	The Characteristics of Southeast Asian Chinese Investments in Mainland China since 1978 (in Chinese)
93, October 2007	Vivienne Wee Michael Jacobsen Tiong Chong Wong	Oscillating between Economic Opportunities and Contextual Constraints: Assessing the Positioning of Southeast Asian Ethnic ‘Chinese’ Entrepreneurs in relation to China (in Chinese)
94, October 2007	Michael Jacobsen	De-linking the Chinese Diaspora – Manadonese Chinese Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi (in Chinese)
95, October 2007	Edmund Terence Gomez Chin Yee Whah	Malaysia in China: Transnationalism, Business Networks and Enterprise Development (in Chinese) (Part I and Part II)
96, November 2007	Andrew Selth	Modern Burma Studies: A View from the Edge
97, November 2007	Troy Johnson	Voices from Aceh: Perspectives on Syariat Law
2008
98, February 2008	Michael H. Nelson	Thaksin’s 2005 Electoral Triumph: Looking Back From the Election in 2007
99, May 2008	Astrid S. Tuminez	The Past Is Always Present: The Moros of Mindanao and the Quest for Peace
100, June 2008	Andrew Selth	Populism, Politics and Propaganda: Burma and the Movies
101, November 2008	Andrew Selth	Burma’s Coco Islands: Rumours and Realities in the Indian Ocean