The Politics of Death: Political Violence in Southeast Asia (4)

by Aurel Croissant (Editor), Beate Martin (Editor), Croissant

This volume analyzes four aspects of political violence in Southeast elections and violence; intra-ethnic conflict; communist insurgency; terrorism and religious extremism and lethal crime and politics. Together, the ten case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand challenge the idea that democratic governance will bring an end to internal violent conflict. As some examples in the region suggest, semi-democratic polities in Southeast Asia even may be more successful in reducing levels of internal violence, compared to new democracies in their neighbourhood and other types of political regime they have tried in the past.

384 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 2006