Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia

Marco Bünte is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Social Science at Monash University. Australia.Björn Dressel is Senior Lecturer in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Australia.

• 1. Contesting Constitutionalism: Constitutional Politics in Southeast Asia I: Constitution-Making and Constitutional Design2. Ways of Constitution-Making in Southeast Asia: Actors, Interests, Dynamics3. Delaying Constitutionalism to Protect Establishment Hegemony in Thailand: Designing the Election System and the Senate in the Constitution of 20074. Constitutionalism Old and New in the "UN Kingdom of Timor Leste"II: Constitutional Change and the Military5. Constitutional Change and Security Forces: Lessons from Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines6. Embedding Praetorianism: Soldiers, State and Constitutions in Myanmar7. The Legal-Military Alliance for Illiberal Constitutionalism in ThailandPart III: Constitutions and Human Rights8. Human Rights in Southeast Asia: From Contestation to Compliance?9. Undermining Religious Minority Rights in Indonesia and Malaysia: Fragile Coalitions, Wavering Executive Chiefs and Rogue Groups as Proxies10.Vietnam’s Constitutional Politics in Focus: Investigating the Arenas of the Rule of Law and Human Rights 11. Racial Politics and Imperatives and the Constitutional Special Position of the Indigenous Malays in a New Society: Asserting Interests and the Non-Contestation of Rights in Singapore’s Communitarian ConstitutionalismPART IV: Constitutional Politics and the Rule of Law12. Courts and Constitutional Politics in Southeast Asia 13. Contesting Constitutionalism in Vietnam: The Justifications and Proposed Models of Judicial Review in the 2013 Amendment Process14. Constitutional Politics and the Philippine Supreme Court: The Role of Public Support in Mitigating Politicization of the Judiciary15. Rule of Law in Illiberal Contexts: Cambodia and Singapore as Exemplars16. Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law and Religious Freedom in Malaysia

'...valuable contextual narrartives and empirical evidence...the book provides fascinating accounts of domestic politics across a range of Southeast Asian countries...'Hao Duy Phan, National University of Singapore, Contemporary Southeast Asia