Acknowledgements

Several people made important contributions at some stage or other of the long preparation and production process of this volume.

Standing out among them was Research Associate Ms Veena Nair who helped the editor to manage the entire process from beginning to end, including compiling a list of potential contributors to this volume; handling correspondence with them; making valuable inputs to the editing process through two rounds of meticulous editing of the chapters; doing the proof-reading; and participating in the writing of the Introduction.

Thanks also go to our secretary Betty Tan and production editor Sheryl Sin for their efforts, and those research colleagues whose views the editor sought on some matter or other which they provided generously. They include Malcolm Cook, Mustafa Izzuddin, and Ulla Fionna. Finally a word of thanks too for ISEAS Director Ambassador Tan Chin Tiong, Deputy Director Ooi Kee Beng, and Head of ISEAS Publishing Mr Ng Kok Kiong for their support.