April 15th, 2011

Shorenstein APARC announces three new political economy titles

Two new groundbreaking political economy publications are now available from the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center: Going Private in China: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in the PRC and Spending Without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan. A third, The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia, is forthcoming in August. Read more »

June 15th, 2009

What's Up with Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford? Recap, Prospect, Controversy

The 2008-09 academic year was a busy time for the Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). A dozen on-campus lectures by Southeast Asianists from Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United States ranged from country-specific topics such as labor resistance in Vietnam, political opposition in Malaysia, and the 2009 elections in Indonesia, to broader-brush treatments of Southeast Asian identities and modernities, regional repercussions of the global economic slowdown, and the wellsprings of "late democratization" across East Asia. Read more »