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Expressing Islam
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 64.90As the forces of globalisation and modernisation buffet Islam and other world religions, Indonesias 200 million Muslims are expressing their faith in ever more complex ways. Celebrity television preachers, internet fatwa services, mass religious rallies in soccer stadiums, glossy jihadist magazines, Islamic medical treatments, alms giving via... more...
Indonesia: Towards Democracy
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2009; US$ 74.90This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence. In the process Indonesia with its sprawling archipelago and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation... more...
Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 74.90This book deals with Singapore's transition from a British Crown Colony to a state in the Federation of Malaysia, and expulsion from the Federation to become a separate independent nation. For the leaders of Singapore's PAP Government, Malaysia was a traumatic experience. Yet, but for it, they might never have found the resolve and the secret... more...
Looking East to Look West
Penguin India 2009; US$ 37.90When P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh launched Indias "Look East" policy, it was only the first stage of the strategy to foster economic and security cooperation with the United States. But "Looking East" became an end in itself, and Singapore a valid destination, largely because of Lee Kuan Yew. He had been trying since... more...
Lim Kim San
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2009; US$ 59.90Lim Kim San's name is linked inextricably to Singapore's public housing. This is entirely appropriate because he played a crucial role in the success of the Housing Board, which transformed both the countrys physical landscape and gave Singaporeans a tangible stake in the future of their young nation. However, important though Lim's... more...
Between Rising Powers
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2007; US$ 65.90Geography has moulded Singapores self-definition, much as it has shaped the contours of the rest of Southeast Asia, a region that lies south of China and east of India. Placed within overlapping Sinic and Indic zones, Singapore's entrepôt role has served both. Today, as China and India emerge simultaneously as rising powers, a port city... more...
Three Sides in Search of a Triangle
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 53.90Singapore is America's closest security partner in Southeast Asia. The United States has decided to help India become a major world power in the twenty-first century, an objective that is furthered by the nuclear agreement between them. Singapore's relationship with India is an increasingly pertinent feature of Southeast Asias political... more...
Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 104.90This book presents a genealogy of the social networks and power struggles of the major influential group of Indonesian-educated Muslims called "intelligentsia". In this effort, the longue durée approach is combined with an interactive, inter-disciplinary and inter-textual method to better understand the various underlying impulses and... more...
The Singapore Lion
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2010; US$ 67.90Irene Ng has written a book that gives a comprehensive portrayal of Mr Rajaratnam - one of Singapores outstanding leaders who played a crucial part in the momentous and crisis-ridden transition to iindependence. This is a book about the man and his wisdom. One would fail to appreciate him until one reads this absorbing book and reflects... more...
Ethnic Chinese in Contemporary Indonesia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 59.90The Chinese in Indonesia have played an important role in Indonesian society before and after the fall of Soeharto. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information by examining them in detail during that era with special reference to the post-Soeharto period. The contributors to this volume consist of both older- and younger-generation... more...









