The US Rebalance and Southeast Asia

Globalization and Southeast Asia

In the 1990s Southeast Asia became prominent in discussions of globalization. Comparative studies often pointed to the region’s capitalist economies as exemplars of pro-globalization development strategies, countries whose economic and political fortunes have been tied (for better or worse) to a deepening embrace of global trade and investment. The region’s sudden economic reversal in 1997-98 c...

Health in southeast Asia.

Neglect of human rights that compromises health outcomes, the combination of high population density and domestic livestock that encourages zoonoses, claims over viral sovereignty, and an emphasis on health tourism that creates dual standards of care: too often health in southeast Asia is in the news for the wrong reasons. Today’s Lancet reports good news from the region as well as disappointme...

Fertility Transition: Southeast Asia

Figure 1 Countries of Southeast Asia than Europe’s (786 million vs. 628 million, United Nations 1999, pp. 442–3). This dramatic reversal is the product of a lag, of about a century, in the demographic transitions of the two regions. Fertility began to decline in several northwestern Europe countries during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and spread to all of Europe over the first hal...

The United States and Southeast Asia

The development of what has come to be thought of as Southeast Asia has been profoundly shaped by its interaction with other, more powerful, forces from outside the region. Whether this has been the impact of religious traditions from other parts of Asia, the impact of expanding economic relations within Asia itself, or the more recent and revolutionary impact of ‘the West’ (Beeson 2001a), the ...

The Cuisine of Southeast Asia and Vietnam