Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia

Boike Rehbein is Professor of Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University, Germany. Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.Surichai Wun’gaeo is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

• Introduction; Boike Rehbein and Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo.- Part I: Democracy and Globalization.- 1. Democracy is Coming; Jan Nederveen Pieterse.- Part II: Southeast Asia.- 2. The Noisy Right and the Not-So-Silent Moderates: Democracy and All That in Malaysia; Abdul Rahman Embong.- 3. Singapore’s Social Contract Trilemma; Andrew Yeo Zhi Jian, Yeoh Lam Keong and Au Yong Haw Yee.- 4. The Afterglow of Hun Sen’s Cambodia? Socioeconomic Development, Political Change, and the Persistence of Inequalities; Daniel Bultmann and Sok Udom Deth.- 5. Democracy and Middle Classes in Laos; Boike Rehbein.- 6. Democratization in Vietnam’s Post-Đổi Mới One-party Rule: Change from Within and Change from the Bottom to the Top; Minh Quang Pham and Hai Hong Nguyen.- 7. Emerging Democracy and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Myanmar; Zaw Aung.- 8. Asian Prosperity and Social Inequality: Reflections on Social-EcologicalTransitions and Governance of Cities; Emma Porio.- 9. The Triangular Relations of Society, State, and Market in Indonesia: Globalization and Social Problems in Indonesia; Francisia SSE Seda.- Part III: Focus on Thailand.-10. Thailand’s Political Crisis: The Perplexities of Democracy and Society; Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo.- 11. Can Deliberative Democracy be an Alternative for the Twenty-first Century? A Case Study of Thailand; Surangrut Jumnianpol and Nithi Nuangjamnong.- 12. Online Social Surveillance and Cyber-witch Hunting in Post-2014 Coup Thailand; Pirongrong Ramasoota.- 13. Conclusion; Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo.