A powerful new survey of political change in Southeast Asia, exploring why some countries have become democratic while others remain authoritarian.

Jacques Bertrand is Associate Professor of Political Science and a member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. For the last few years, his research has focused on the effects of democratisation on sub-state nationalist mobilisation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. He is the author of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Preface; 1. Understanding political change in Southeast Asia; Part I. Capitalism, Economic Growth and Political Change: 2. Indonesia and Timor-Leste; 3. The Philippines; 4. Malaysia, Singapore; 5. Thailand; Part II. State Socialist Countries and Authoritarian Stability: 6. Vietnam; 7. Cambodia and Laos; 8. Burma/Myanmar; 9. Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century; References; Index.