Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures

Introduction; Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Boike Rehbein.- Part I: Democracy and Globalization.- 1. Democracy is Coming; Jan Nederveen Pieterse.- Part II: Southeast Asia.- 2. The Noisy Right and the Not-So-Silent Moderates: Democracy and All That in Malaysia; Abdul Rahman Embong.- 3. Singapore's Social Contract Trilemma; Andrew Yeo Zhi Jian, Yeoh Lam Keong and Au Yong Haw Yee.- 4. The Afterglow of Hun Sen's Cambodia? Socioeconomic Development, Political Change, and the Persistence of Inequalities; Daniel Bultmann and Sok Udom Deth.- 5. Democracy and Middle Classes in Laos; Boike Rehbein.- 6. Democratization in Vietnam's Post-Đổi Mới One-party Rule: Change from Within and Change from the Bottom to the Top; Minh Quang Pham and Hai Hong Nguyen.- 7. Emerging Democracy and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Myanmar; Zaw Aung.- 8. Asian Prosperity and Social Inequality: Reflections on Social-Ecological Transitions and Governance of Cities; Emma Porio.- 9. The Triangular Relations of Society, State, and Market in Indonesia: Globalization and Social Problems in Indonesia; Francisia Seda.- Part III: Focus on Thailand.- 10. Thailand's Political Crisis: The Perplexities of Democracy and Society; Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo.- 11. Can Deliberative Democracy be an Alternative for the Twenty-first Century? A Case Study of Thailand; Surangrut Jumnianpol and Nithi Nuangjamnong.- 12. Online Social Surveillance and Cyber-witch Hunting in Post-2014 Coup Thailand; Pirongrong Ramasoota.- 13. Conclusion; Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo.