New Political Economy of Southeast Asia

Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Professor of Technology and Innovation Policy, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Professorial Fellow, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands, Senior Research Associate, Sanjaya Lall Centre for Technology and Development, Oxford University, UK and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Associate Professor in Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark

‘The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia is a praiseworthy interdisciplinary scholarly survey of contemporary political economy of one of the most dynamic economic hubs of the world. It is a highly-recommended reading not only for advanced scholars of Asian studies who hope to build upon the theoretically-oriented and empirically-grounded analyses advocated in this volume, but also for students and interested individuals who are deeply interested in Southeast Asia, or more broadly, on the study of regional and national economies vis-à-vis their constitutive property of being globally embedded. Future scholarly endeavors in the social sciences dealing with the study of Southeast Asian political economy are strongly encouraged to build upon the findings uncovered in the volume’s interdisciplinary-oriented analyses, as well as to be more conscious of uncovering the multi-dimensional linkages between the global and regional political economies.’

• Contents:Preface 1. IntroductionRajah Rasiah and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt2. Industrialization in the Second-tier NIEsRajah Rasiah3. The 1997 Economic Crisis, Reform and Southeast Asian GrowthChris Dixon4. Revisiting Shared Growth and Examining Horizontal InequalityAnis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam5. Industrial Relations and Labour Market ConditionsRene Ofreneo and Peter Wad6. Urban and Industrial Environmental Reform in Southeast AsiaDavid A. Sonnenfeld and Arthur P.J. Mol7. Civil Society and Distributional Conflicts in Southeast Asia Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt8. Rationale for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia Sanchita Basu Das and Aekapol ChongvilaivanIndex