Paths to Development in Asia

Tuong Vu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He co-edited (with Erik Kuhonta and Dan Slater) Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis (2008) and (with Wasana Wongsurawat) Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture (2010). His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including World Politics, the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Theory and Society, and he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

• Part I. Divergent National Paths of State Development: 1. State formation dynamics and developmental outcomes; 2. South Korea: confrontation and the formation of a cohesive state; 3. Indonesia: from accommodation to confrontation; 4. Rival state formations in China: the republican and Maoist states; 5. Vietnam: accommodation and arrested revolution; Part II. Variants of Accommodation: Vietnam and Indonesia Compared: 6. Organizing accommodation in Vietnam: coalition government, united front, and the Leninist party; 7. Organizing accommodation in Indonesia: parliament and status-based parties; 8. Talking accommodation in Vietnam: nation, the people, and class struggle; 9. Talking accommodation in Indonesia: nation, the people, God, and Karl Marx; 10. Rethinking developmental states; Bibliography.

'… the main strength of Paths to Development in Asia is its careful attention to how political organization and political discourse operated in the decade-and-a-half after the Second World War in Vietnam and Indonesia. In doing so, Vu demonstrates convincingly how accommodation, mass incorporation and elite compromise impeded the creation of effective developmental sates in these two countries.' South East Asia Research