Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia write by Volker Grabowsky. This book was released on 2020-02. Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by a multinational team of experts who deploy their disciplinary strengths in history, sociology, social anthropology, political science, and philology to analyze a wide range of sources, including royal chronicles, missionary dictionaries, colonial archival documents, audio- and videotapes, and face-to-face interviews, Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia adds to the small but growing body of publications on warfare in Southeast Asia and colonial armies. Military-society relations are examined in a wide range of ways: traditional strategies of augmenting populations, mutinies, and mutiny attempts, imperial anxieties, Japanese military legacies, the transoceanic experiences of Southeast Asian and European soldiers, postwar demobilizations and postconflict biographies, and the transformation of communist guerrillas into guardians of the state and their development of capitalist enterprises. This volume will be of interest to Southeast Asianists and military historians alike as it not only covers traditional territorial grounds, thematic terrains, and temporal landscapes but also extends to individuals and further includes the national, regional, and transnational lives of military institutions.
Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia
Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia write by Aurel Croissant. This book was released on 2018-08-30. Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia reviews the historical origins, contemporary patterns, and emerging changes in civil–military relations in Southeast Asia from colonial times until today. It analyzes what types of military organizations emerged in the late colonial period and the impact of colonial legacies and the Japanese occupation in World War II on the formation of national armies and their role in processes of achieving independence. It analyzes the long term trajectories and recent changes of professional, revolutionary, praetorian and neo-patrimonial civil-military relations in the region. Finally, it analyzes military roles in state- and nation-building; political domination; revolutions and regime transitions; and military entrepreneurship.
The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia
The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia write by Peter Chalk. This book was released on 2014-01-06. The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This RAND report examines the U.S. Army role in Southeast Asia. Under current benign conditions, efforts should focus on supporting defense reform, addressing transnational threats, and balancing China. If the outlook deteriorates, the United States should increase security cooperation, conclude new regional basing agreements, expand disaster assistance, and create policies to encourage risk-averse Chinese behavior.
Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia
Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia write by J. Stephen Hoadley. This book was released on . Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Cold War brought about increasing interest from scholars in the politics of national development and, in the case of civilian-led underdeveloped countries, the effects of military insurgency. Two ideologically opposed positions evolved around the phenomenon of military insurgency. The position of technological conservatism favors military insurgency in previously civilian-led governments on the presumption that it encourages stability, efficiency, and, importantly, anti-communism. The revisionist position, on the other hand, is highly critical of technological conservatism, especially with regard to its political fervor. J. Stephen Hoadley asserts that the relevant question is not one of ideological choices; rather, it is whether a military or civilian-led government is better suited for the political and economic development of a particular underdeveloped nation. Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia introduces the reader to the sequences of events that led to military predominance in Thailand, Burma, South Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Hoadley uses the data of five case studies to test and quantify his hypotheses. The author characterizes governments controlled by the military as performing slightly less well than civilian-led governments inSoutheast Asia. Hoadley argues that while they are demonstrably less capable in responding to outside and domestic challenges, there is little difference between military and civilian-led governments in the areas of establishing stability and maintaininglaw. The book concludes that neither the conservative nor radical views are fully correct as to the effects of military-led governments on development."--Publisher's description.
The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia
The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia write by Marcus Mietzner. This book was released on 2012-11-12. The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces expanded their political privileges under the Arroyo presidency, and the Burmese junta successfully engineered pseudo-democratic elections in 2010. This book discusses the political resurgence of the military in Southeast Asia throughout the 2000s. Written by distinguished experts on military affairs, the individual chapters explore developments in Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, East Timor, Indonesia and Singapore. They not only assess, but also offer explanations for the level of military involvement in politics in each country. Consequently, the book also makes a significant contribution to the comparative debate about militaries in politics. Whilst conditions obviously differ from country to country, most authors in this book conclude that the shape of civil-military relations is not predetermined by historic, economic or cultural factors, but is often the result of intra-civilian conflicts and divisive or ineffective political leadership.
