The Islamic world, often regarded as an anathema to civil society, in fact has rich traditions of associational life pursuing 'common good'. In 1999 the Saskawa Peace Foundation invited ten Mulim activists and scholars from Southeast Asia to Japan for exchanging views and experiences...more details Format:paperback Pages:228
Papers discussing notes from the 1999 ISEAS/Sasakawa Peace Foundation conference in which Muslim academics and activists from East and Southeast Asia discuss how the Islamic traditions of associational pursuit of "the common good" apply in contemporary Southeast Asia....more details Format:Hardback Pages:228
China burst onto the world stage in the mid-1980s and in the past decade has been transformed into a giant magnet for FDI, attracting capital from all over the world. Everyone wants a piece of the China action. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the region of Southeast Asia...more details Format:Hardback Pages:116