Books in the Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series series

A distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold-War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape the institutions and systems of power and wealth in Indonesia.

Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this text sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. Presenting case studies of the real-life experiences and problems faced by migrant workers, it discusses migrants' relations with the state and their vulnerability to exploitation.

An examination of the changing global and domestic political economies shaping the new regionalism in Asia, this study looks at the relationship between regional domestic, political and economic structures and forms of regional governance.

This book rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions.

Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of "class factors" he demonstrates that both in the present and past the state has been entangled in processes that determine the forms of their struggles.

The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models.

This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the policy-specific learning process.