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Collection Assessment and Development

Amber Zimmer – LIS 60621 – Fall 2010

Topic: Political Science of Southeast Asia

Annotated Bibliography

Acharya, Amitav. Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the
Problem of Regional Order. Routledge, 2009. This title focuses heavily on member countries of
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and their political interaction with one
another.

Adams, Kathleen M. Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja,
Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press, 2006. This book heavily focuses on art in Indonesia, but
frames it within the context of the country's political issues, such as community violence and
national unity.

Alagappa, Muthiah. Political Legitmacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority.
Stanford University Press, 1995. This book describes the concept of legitimacy for Southeast
Asian countries and then gives case studies for seven countries from the region.

Ba, Alice D. (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations. Stanford University Press, 2009. Ba's work describes the political
reasoning for the creation of ASEAN and the implications the association has on its member
countries.

Caballero-Anthony, Mely. Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast

Asia. Routledge, 2010. This book describes political transitions in six different case studies
throughout Southeast Asia.

Case, William. Politics in southeast Asia: democracy or less. Curzon, 2002. Case's book
describes democracy in five Southeast Asian nations, as well as democracy in the region as a
whole.

Connors, Michael and Remy Davison. The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific. Routledge,
2010. This title describes the political interaction between nations of the Asia Pacific (including
the southeast) and the rest of the world.
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Croissant, Aurel and Beate Martin. Between Consolidation and Crisis: Elections and Democracy
in Five Nations in Southeast Asia. Transaction Publishers, 2006. This title covers the successes
and failures of democratic elections in five Southeast Asian nations.

D'Costa, Bina and Katrina Lee-Koo. Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009. This book offers an extremely comprehensive view of politics in Southeast
Asian countries and what role gender has played in political decisions.

Emmerson, Donald K. Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia.
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2009. Emmerson's book describes a variety
of topics relating to ASEAN including cooperation, sovereignty, and democracy.

Englehart, Neil A. Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government. Cornell University
Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2001. This book offers a complete view of political
science as it relates to Siamese government.

Funston, John. Government and politics in Southeast Asia. Palgrave, 2001. As noted by its title,
this book describes politics in ten Southeast Asian countries.

Gross, Max L. A Muslim archipelago: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. National Defense
Intelligence College, 2007. This book relates politics and Islam in individual cases throughout
Southeast Asia.

Hadiz, Vedi and Richard Robison. Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy
in an Age of Markets. Routledge, 2004. This title offers a historical view of oligarchy in
Indonesia.

Hedman, Eva-Lotta E. In the Name of Civil Society: From Free Election Movements to People
Power in the Philippines. University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Exclusively focusing on the
Philippines, this book provides information on national civil movements and their impact on
politics and government.

Hirsch, Philip and Carol Warren. The politics of environment in Southeast Asia: resources and
resistance. Routledge, 1998. This book is about the political impact that environmental issues
such as pollution, forestry, and dams have on Southeast Asian nations.

Hughes, Caroline. Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor.
Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2009. This book describes political
decision making for the war-torn nations of Cambodia and East Timor.

Kuhonta, Erik. Southeast Asia in political science: theory, region, and qualitative analysis.
Stanford University Press, 2008. Kuhonta's title covers a variety of political topics relating
exclusively to the nations of Southeast Asia.
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Marsh, Ian. Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia: a
Comparative Study. Routledge, 2006. This title describes the Southeast Asian topics of
governance, party systems, and how regionalism binds the countries together.

Paul, Erik. Obstacles to Democratization in Southeast Asia: A Study of the Nation State,
Regional and Global Order. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This title covers topics of sovereignty,
democracy, and ASEAN.

Poole, Peter A. Politics and society in Southeast Asia. McFarland & Co, 2009. Poole's book
illustrates major political issues affecting ten different countries in Southeast Asia.

Press-Barnathan, Galia. The Political Economy of Transitions to Peace: a Comparative

Perspective. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Although not exclusively covering Southeast
Asia, this title does describe the relation between some nations after war within the region.

Rasiah, Rajah. New Political Economy of Southeast Asia. Edward Elgar, 2010. This book
includes several individual papers about various political issues affecting Southeast Asia.

Reid, Anthony. Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity. Cambridge University
Press, 2009. This title describes political and government identity of several nations within the
region.

Rowen, Henry S. Behind East Asian growth: the political and social foundations of prosperity.
Routledge, 1998. Rowen's book covers the political reform, development, and growth of many
Southeast Asian nations and how each country can learn from one another.

Saravanamuttu, Johan. Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. Routledge, 2010. This book offers
several articles on Islamic movements and their affect on democracy in the Southeast Asian
region.

Scott, James C. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast
Asia. Yale University Press, 2009. This title provides information about reluctance to accept or
acknowledge the state's existence throughout Southeast Asia.

Sears, Laurie J. Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects. University of Washington Press, 2007.
Sears' book describes the study of Southeast Asia and how the region's politics are studied by the
rest of the world.

Slater, Dan. Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast
Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2010. While mainly focusing on authoritarian states as a
whole, this book also provides more detailed information on authoritarian regimes within the
region of Southeast Asia.
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Takashi, Shiraishi and Patricio N Abinales. After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and
Governance in Southeast Asia. Trans Pacific Press, 2005. This book contains several separate
articles on the political economy of Southeast Asia after the Asian crisis.

Weatherbee, Donald E. International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2008. This book provides an extremely comprehensive
view of topics of political science in Southeast Asia including why to study the region, a history,
and current hot topics.

Willford, Andrew C. and Kenneth M. George. Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in
Contemporary Southeast Asia. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2004.
This book consists of various articles about the integration of religion and spirituality with
politics.

Woodier, Jonathan. The media and political change in Southeast Asia: karaoke culture and the
evolution of personality politics. Edward Elgar, 2008. This book combines the themes of the
media, war and violence within Southeast Asia.

Yahuda, Michael. The International Politics of the Asia Pacific: Third and revised edition.
Routledge, 2005. Yahuda describes politics of the Asia Pacific throughout various periods in
modern history and the region's interaction with the rest of the world.

Comparison to the collection of an academic library

The annotated bibliography included within this document provides detailed information

on suggested book titles for a comprehensive collection on the topic of political science in

Southeast Asia. These titles have been selected for a variety of reasons including currency,

importance, and relevancy. Given that Southeast Asia experienced a major economic downturn

in the 1990’s which required focus and revision by the political sphere, book titles published

after 2000 were given top priority. This list has been compared with the collection of the

Cleveland State University Library. This academic university was chosen because of an available

degree option offered by the school: “International Relations – Concentration in Asia.” Due to
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the availability of this program, it was assumed that the university would have already acquired

the key titles on this specific topic. The following is an evaluation of Cleveland State

University’s (CSU) collection, its ease of use, and its comparison to the annotated bibliography

provided.

The Cleveland State University Library offers students a multitude of different ways to

local titles of similar subject matter. Users can search by keyword, Library of Congress subject

heading, title, author, or call number. Unfortunately, despite the variety of search options

available to users, it would appear that the university does not have a very exhaustive collection

of book titles about political science in Southeast Asia. The subject headings only provided less

than half a dozen titles of related topic. Because of this, it was also difficult to find titles in the

collection that are listed in physical proximity to one another through call number. The CSU

Library provided titles on politics in specific Southeast Asia nations such as Japan and China;

however it was difficult to find book titles that covered the entire geographical region. Of the

titles that I was able to locate, nearly all of them were already included in the annotated

bibliography. This does not imply that there was much overlap between CSU’s collection and the

bibliography for a comprehensive collection.

The Cleveland State University Library contained only four of the books that were listed

in the bibliography. These are:

Alagappa, Muthiah. Political Legitmacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral
Authority. Stanford University Press, 1995.

Ba, Alice D. (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Stanford University Press, 2009.

Gross, Max L. A Muslim archipelago: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. National
Defense Intelligence College, 2007.
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Hirsch, Philip and Carol Warren. The politics of environment in Southeast Asia:
resources and resistance. Routledge, 1998.

Noticeably, these are some of the older titles included in the bibliography; only one other

was published before 2000 that was not in CSU’s collection. As a librarian, I would infer that the

library had not updated their collection in quite some time. While these titles are preferred

resources on the topic of political science in Southeast Asia, it is disappointing that they are not

more current. Given the degree program offered by the university, it would be expected that

there would not only be a larger list of matches between the bibliography and the collection, but

that the titles would also be more current. Older titles may provide insight to students about the

history of this region, but students are then forced to use other means of obtaining relevant

information about more recent shifts and changes. CSU is a member of OhioLINK and provides

its students access to online systems such as EBSCOhost; this may be the reason why subject

librarians have deemed it unnecessary to expand the current collection. Given the proper

funding, however, it would be highly beneficial to students enrolled in the related degree

program if the library expanded its collection.

The following is a list of suggested titles and their cost. It is to be noted that although the

hypothetical budget of $5000 was offered for this project, it was deemed unnecessary to spend

all of the offered funding in order to create a complete collection. Instead, a proper subject-

specific collection could be created at an estimate of $2,694.

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Table of suggested titles and their cost

Publication
Title Publisher Year Cost of item
Southeast Asia in political science: theory, region, Stanford 2008 $75
and qualitative analysis University
Press
Knowing Southeast Asian subjects University of 2007 $30
Washington
Press
Crisis and conflict in Asia: local, regional and Nova Science 2002 $95
international responses Publishers
Behind East Asian growth: the political and social Routledge 1998 $195
foundations of prosperity
Islam and politics in Southeast Asia Routledge 2010 $112
Politics and society in Southeast Asia McFarland & 2009 $30
Co
The politics of Islamic identity in Southeast Asia Thomson 2005 $50
Learning
Transition politics in Southeast Asia: dynamics of Marshall 2005 $28
leadership change and succession in Indonesia and Cavendish
Malaysia Academic
Postcolonialism and local politics in Southeast Asia New Day 2003 $13
Publishers
Politics in southeast Asia: democracy or less Curzon 2002 $155
Government and politics in Southeast Asia Palgrave 2001 $36
The media and political change in Southeast Asia: Edward Elgar 2008 $160
karaoke culture and the evolution of personality
politics
Electronic tigers of Southeast Asia: the politics of Iowa State 2002 $55
media, technology, and national development University
Press
Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Cornell 2001 $22
Government University
Southeast Asia
Program
Publications

Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Cambridge 2009 $30

Identity in Southeast Asia University
Press
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Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Cornell 2004 $30

Contemporary Southeast Asia University
Southeast Asia
Program
Publications

Public Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, CRC Press 2010 $66

Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Macao

Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Cambridge 2010 $79

Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia University
Press
The International Politics of the Asia Pacific: Third Routledge 2005 $39
and revised edition
Southeast Asia in the New International Era Westview Press 2009 $37
International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Rowman & 2008 $100
Struggle for Autonomy Littlefield
Publishers, Inc
Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cornell 2009 $47
Cambodia and East Timor University
Southeast Asia
Program
Publications

Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Routledge 2004 $195

Oligarchy in an Age of Markets
In the Name of Civil Society: From Free Election University of 2005 $28
Movements to People Power in the Philippines Hawaii Press

Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and University of 2006 $59

Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia Hawaii Press
Political change, democratic transitions and Routledge 2010 $130
security in Southeast Asia
The political economy of transitions to peace: a University of 2009 $65
comparative perspective Pittsburgh Press
Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific Palgrave 2009 $68
Macmillan
Hard choices: security, democracy, and Walter H. 2009 $29
regionalism in Southeast Asia Shorenstein
Asia-Pacific
Research
Center
New Political Economy of Southeast Asia Edward Elgar 2010 $135
Southeast Asia: Background, Issues and Terrorism Nova Science 2010 $115
Publishers
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The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific Routledge 2010 $134
South-East Asia: A Political Profile Oxford 2005 $43
University
Press
Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: Westview Press 1995 $40
The Winds of Change
Asia Pacific in World Politics Lynne Rienner 2006 $25
Publishers
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist Yale University 2009 $23
History of Upland Southeast Asia Press
Southeast Asia: Past and Present Westview Press 2009 $36
Obstacles to Democratization in Southeast Asia: A Palgrave 2010 $85
Study of the Nation State, Regional and Global Macmillan
Order

Total expense $2,694