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Key Issues in Development
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Damien Kingsbury, John McKay, Joseph Remenyi
The notion of development has evolved from a relatively straightforward concern with industrialization plus increasing gross domestic product to a much more complex mix of quality of life, participation, empowerment and good governance - all of which have remained elusive to many of the world's poor. This major new text provides a critical ...
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South-East Asia: A Political Profile
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Damien Kingsbury
Presents an introduction to the politics of South-east Asia. This work introduces the key themes and issues that influence politics in the region, and examines each country individually, revealing how its politics is shaped by local conditions, history, and influences.
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International Development: Issues and Challenges
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Damien Kingsbury, John McKay, Janet Hunt
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and issues in international development.It offers a broad-ranging new introduction to the theory, practice and study of development. It is written by leading authors in their fields.Designed to replace "Key Issues in Development", this text provides a critical interdisciplinary ...
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Power Politics and the Indonesian Military
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Damien Kingsbury (Editor), Kingsbury Damie
Throughout the postwar history of Indonesia, the military have played a key role in the politics of the country and in imposing unity on a fragmentary state. The collapse of the authoritarian New Order government of President Suharto weakened the state and the armed forces briefly lost their grip on control of the archipelago. However, under ...
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The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050
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Damien C Kingsbury, Richard Landes (Editor), Andrew Gow (Editor)
The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly ...
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Foreign Devils and Other Journalists: Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, No. 52
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Damien Kingsbury (Editor), Eric Loo (Editor), Patricia Payne (Editor)
How do the Western media represent Asia? How do the Asian media represent the West? What is the role of the media? What should be the media's relationship with the state? Australia's leading academics on the media in Southeast Asia provide provocative essays focusing on key issues in reporting on and within the region.
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Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia
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Damien Kingsbury, Harry Aveling
This book analyses social unrest, autonomy and separatism in the wake of the Indonesian economic crisis. Topics covered include Indonesian nationalism in historical perspective, identity and the nation-state.
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Peace in Aceh: A Personal Account of the Helsinki Peace Process
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Damien Kingsbury
Following nearly three decades of conflict and a series of failed ceasefire agreements, on 15 August 2005, the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Government of Indonesia reached an historic peace agreement to end the fighting and to give Aceh a high degree of genuine autonomy. The catalyst for the talks that produced this agreement was ...
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East Timor: Beyond Independence
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Damien Kingsbury (Editor), Michael Leach (Editor)
This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since its independence. The book examines the major themes of development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education, and language policy. Though the country was initially lauded as a case study in successful state-building, the crisis of 2006 demonstrated ...
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Human Rights in Asia: A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate
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Leena Avonius (Editor), Damien Kingsbury (Editor)
This book offers a critical reassessment of the "Asian values" debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the 'Asian values' debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian ...
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The Politics of Indonesia
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Damien Kingsbury
"Politics of Indonesia" is the only book to provide a complete analysis of Indonesian politics, from the declaration of independence until the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2004. The book examines the problems of Islamic terrorism, the military, separatism, the media, law and economy, providing a topical and thought-provoking guide to ...
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Guns and Ballot Boxes: East Timor's Vote for Independence
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Damien Kingsbury, Monash Asia Institute
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Independence Ballot in East Timor: Official Report of an Australian Observer Group - # 113
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Damien Kingsbury (Editor), Sue Downie (Editor)
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Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia
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Damien Kingsbury (Editor)
A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awareness that Southeast Asia is amongst the world's most troubled areas. This book analyzes local terrorism and state repression in this populous, strategically important region.
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Political Development
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Damien Kingsbury
This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development. "Political Development" returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an ...
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East Timor: The Price of Liberty
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Damien Kingsbury
Traces the themes within the East Timor independence movement and notes how these have contributed to post-independence issues, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as a viable state in 2006. This book also assesses the 2007 elections.
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Media realities : the news media and power in Australian society
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Ian Marshall, Damien Kingsbury
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