TY - BOOK AU - Ganesan,N. ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Conjunctures and continuities in Southeast Asian politics SN - 9789814379953 AV - DS526.7 .C663 2013 U1 - 320.959 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Singapore PB - ISEAS KW - Southeast Asia KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Conjunctures and continuities in Southeast Asian politics / N. Ganesan -- (Re)assessing the EDSA "people power" (1986) as a critical conjuncture / Rommel Curaming and Lisandro Claudio -- The road to Doi Moi in 1986 : domestic dimensions / Ta Minh Tuan -- The 1988 uprising in Myanmar : historical conjuncture or praetorian redux? / Tin Maung Maung Than -- Cambodia's historical conjunctures and their significance / Ramses Amer -- Changing the rules : historical conjuncture and transition in Indonesia / Ehito Kimura -- The resistible rise of Thaksin Shinawatra : crisis, change and the collapse of Thailand's democracy / Federico Ferrara -- The March 2008 general election in Malaysia as a historical conjuncture / Johan Saravanamuttu -- Conclusion : conjunctures and continuities in Southeast Asia / N. Ganesan -- Index N2 - In their evolution of political structures and life, countries often undergo significant conjunctures, major events that reorder political structures and norms. The examination of such conjunctures offers an important methodological framework to uncover and document changes that have significantly altered the political template of a country. This collection of case studies examines the critical conjunctures that have affected the countries of Southeast Asia in recent decades. Each chapter traces the antecedent conditions prior to the event, describes the changes brought about by the conjuncture, and details the lasting legacy UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789814379953/ ER -