Coercion and governance : the declining political role of the military in Asia / edited by Muthiah Alagappa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alagappa, Muthiah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations--Asia.

Civil-military relations.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xxv, 594 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It discusses these relations in countries where the military continues to dominate the political realm as well as others where it is disengaging from politics.

Contents:

Part I. Conceptual Perspective

1. Investigating and Explaining Change: An Analytical Framework / Muthiah Alagappa 29

Part II. Democratic Civilian Control

2. Japan: From Containment to Normalization / Eiichi Katahara 69

3. India: The New Militaries / Sunil Dasgupta 92

Part III. Consolidating Democratic Civilian Control

4. South Korea: Consolidating Democratic Civilian Control / Jinsok Jun 121

5. Taiwan: The Remaining Challenges / Chih-cheng Lo 143

Part IV. Transition to Democratic Civilian Control

6. The Philippines: Not So Military, Not So Civil / Eva-Lotta E. Hedman 165

7. Thailand: The Struggle to Redefine Civil-Military Relations / James Ockey 187

8. Bangladesh: An Uneasy Accommodation / Amena Mohsin 209

9. Indonesia: On a New Course? / Geoffrey Robinson 226

Part V. Ethnic and Dominant Party Civilian Control

10. Malaysia: A Congruence of Interests / K. S. Nathan, Geetha Govindasamy 259

11. Singapore: Civil-Military Fusion / Tan Tai Yong 276

12. Sri Lanka: Transformation of Legitimate Violence and Civil-Military Relations / Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 294

Part VI. Communist and Totalitarian Civilian Control

13. China: Conditional Compliance / James Mulvenon 317

14. Vietnam: From Revolutionary Heroes to Red Entrepreneurs / Thaveeporn Vasavakul 336

15. North Korea: Institutionalized Military Intervention / Chung-in Moon, Hideshi Takesada 357

Part VII. Military Control of the State

16. Pakistan: Return to Praetorianism / Babar Sattar 385

17. Burma: Soldiers as State Builders / Mary P. Callahan 413

18. Asian Civil-Military Relations: Key Developments, Explanations, and Trajectories / Muthiah Alagappa 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

080474226X

0804742278

OCLC:

46640673