Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS N. Ganesan is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan where he has been since 2004. He concurrently serves as Visiting Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. His research interest focuses on sources of intrastate and interstate tensions and conflict in Southeast Asia. Ramses Amer is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Stockholm and Research Associate, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm. Major areas of research include (a) security issues and conflict resolution in Southeast Asia and the wider Pacific Asia and (b) the role of the United Nations in the international system. His most recent books are Conflict Management and Dispute Settlement in East Asia (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011) (co-edited with Keyuan Zou) and The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development (London: Anthem Press, 2012) (co-edited with Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendal). Lisandro E. Claudio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University. He obtained his doctorate from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, the University of Melbourne. Rommel A. Curaming is Programme Leader and Lecturer in History and SoutheastAsian Studies Programme at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Prior to joining UBD, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Endeavour Awards (2008) at La Trobe University. He completed his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) with a thesis on state-scholar relations in Indonesia and the Philippines. iv Contributors His recent research and publications focus on history and memory of political violence, Filipino Malayness, and politics and ethics of knowledge production. Federico Ferrara is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies of the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Thailand Unhinged: The Death of Thai-Style Democracy (2011) and numerous articles on comparative elections and party systems. Ehito Kimura is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. His research interests include contemporary Indonesian and Southeast Asia politics. He is the author of Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia: Provincial Proliferation (2012) as well as articles in journals such as Asian Survey, Southeast Asia Research, Indonesia, and Asia Pacific Viewpoint. Johan Saravanamuttu is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and was formerly Professor of Political Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Penang where he served as Dean of the School of Social Sciences (1994–1996). In 1997 he was the Visiting Chair in ASEAN and International Studies at the University of Toronto. His publications include New Politics in Malaysia (ISEAS, 2003) (edited with Francis Loh) and March 8: Eclipsing May 13 (ISEAS, 2008) (with Ooi Kee Beng and Lee Hock Guan). His latest books are Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia (editor) (Routledge, 2010) and Malaysia’s Foreign Policy, the First 50 Years: Alignment, Neutralism, Islamism (ISEAS, 2010). Tin Maung Maung Than, a Myanmar national, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore. He is the author of State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization (ISEAS, 2007); and more recently “Myanmar’s 2010 Elections, Continuity and Change”, in Southeast Asian Affairs 2011 (ISEAS, 2011). His research interests include political economy of development, democratization and civil-military relations in developing countries, human security, nuclear proliferation, Myanmar politics and economics. Ta Minh Tuan is Director General and Assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister, Vietnam. He also holds an Associate Professorship at the Contributors v Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. His research and teaching includes U.S. foreign policy, security in the Asia-Pacific, Vietnam’s politics and foreign policy, nuclear non-proliferation and Vietnam’s nuclear energy policy. Dr Tuan was a Fulbright fellow at the University of South Carolina (2004), a fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii (2006), and a fellow at the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution (2011). He is a member of CSCAP Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of WMD in the Asia Pacific and a member of CSCAP Vietnam. Dr Tuan earned his PhD in political science from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland in 2002. ...