Books from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

  • Common Lines and City Spaces: A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap
    By Gui Weihsin

    urban space connotes economic and material advancement; on the other hand, the price of these is the rapid alienation of people from the environment and from themselves. There is, as demonstrated in the poems “old house at ang siang ...

  • Older Persons in Southeast Asia: An Emerging Asset
    By Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta

    Journal of Aging and Social Policy 18, No. 3/4 (2006): 43–58. ———. ... In Aging and Caring at the Intersection ofWork and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries, edited by A. Martin-Matthews and J. Phillips. ... Handbook of Asian Aging.

  • Preserving Cultural Identity Through Education: The Schools of the Chinese Community in Calcutta, India
    By Xing Zhang

    It focuses on the role they played in preserving Chinese cultural identity not only through the use of educational curricula and textbooks imported from China, but also with the emphasis on the need to return to the ancestral homeland for ...

  • Building on ASEAN's Success: Towards an Asia-Pacific Community
    By Kevin Rudd

    26th Singapore Lecture 21 April 2005 Africa's Season of Hope: The Dawn of a New Africa-Asia Partnership by THABO ... ABDUL KALAM 28th Singapore Lecture 11 April 2006 Opportunities and Challenges for Asian-Arabian Ties by SULTAN BIN ...

  • The Future of ASEAN
    By Hassanal Bolkiah

    ... Africa-Asia Partnership by THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI 27th Singapore Lecture 1 February 2006 Evolution of Enlightened Societies by A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM 28th Singapore Lecture 11 April 2006 Opportunities and Challenges for Asian-Arabian Ties ...

  • The Importance of Governance for Sustainable Development
    By Helen Clark

    ... Africa-Asia Partnership by THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI 27th Singapore Lecture 1 February 2006 Evolution of Enlightened Societies by A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM 28th Singapore Lecture 11 April 2006 Opportunities and Challenges for Asian-Arabian Ties ...

  • The 31st Singapore Lecture
    By Angela Merkel

    ... Africa-Asia Partnership by THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI 27th Singapore Lecture 1 February 2006 Evolution of Enlightened Societies by A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM 28th Singapore Lecture 11 April 2006 Opportunities and Challenges for Asian-Arabian Ties ...

  • Peace on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia
    By Kim Dae Jung

    This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Kim Dae-jung on 27 November 2000.

  • Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) and Regional Integration
    By Christopher Charles Findlay, Robert Scollay, Uwe Kaufmann

    The trans-Tasman freedom of movement is seen as a key in the relationship of Australia and New Zealand. ... duly reflected in immigration procedures in each country, that allow Australians and New Zealanders to visit, live, and work in.

  • Australia-New Zealand & Southeast Asia Relations: An Agenda for Closer Cooperation
    By Michael Richardson, Chin Kin Wah

    The CER was built on a series of preferential trade agreements, including the 1966 New Zealand and Australia Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ... Australians and New Zealanders can visit, live and work in the other country.

  • Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges
    By David W Lovell

    "Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the ""war on terror""; our governments have mobilized their resources for ""homeland security""; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks.

  • Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda: Lessons Learned and Emerging Challenges in Asia
    By Arsenio Molina Balisacan, Nobuhiko Fuwa

    South Asia Agricultural and Rural Development. ... “Policies on Managing Risk in Agricultural Markets”. ... In International Agricultural Development, 3rd Edition, edited by C.k. Eicher and j.M. Staatz , pp. 416-30.

  • Reinventing ASEAN
    By Simon S C Tay, Jesus P Estanislao, Hadi Soesastro

    As an alternative to non-intervention, “constructive intervention” was proposed as a proactive policy of involvement and assistance to Southeast Asia's weaker nations in order to prevent their internal collapse.

  • The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon
    By David H. Capie, Paul M. Evans

    The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon

  • Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia
    By John Nery

    A study of Rizal, his works, and his influence in Southeast Asia; how his contemporaries saw him; the role Rizal played in inspiring Indonesian nationalists; how the Indonesians and Malaysians appropriated him in the movement for ...

  • Government and Politics in Southeast Asia
    By N. John Funston

    In this substantial and referenced study, nine leading scholars present from inside the history, society, geography, economy and governmental institutions of each of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, ...

  • Islam in Southeast Asia
    By Hussin Mutalib

    Given the difficulty of writing on such a complex and contentious topic, this book attempts to present the subject matter in a manner that is sufficiently objective to scholars and yet simple and accessible enough to be readily understood ...

  • A Gentleman's Word: The Legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in Southeast Asia
    By Nilanjana Sengupta

    This book seeks to fill that gap in the international understanding of a great Indian nationalist and pan-Asianist.

  • Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
    By John Kleinen, Manon Osseweijer

    Eventually, since such punitive expeditions against pirates hideouts on the coast yielded little satisfactory result, the governor of Hong Kong, Richard Macdonnell, looked for legal measures to drive pirates away from the colony.

  • India Fever: The New Indian Professional in Singapore
    By Amrit Barman

    This book takes you through a thought-provoking journey through the life and times of the quickly growing population of Indian expatriate professionals in Singapore.