Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia

From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-81181-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Jacques Bertrand offers a comparative-historical analysis of five nationalist conflicts over several decades in Southeast Asia. Using a theoretical framework to explain variance over time and across cases, he challenges and refines existing debates on democracy's impact and shows that, while democratization significantly reduces violent insurgency over time, it often introduces pernicious effects that fail to resolve conflict and contribute to maintaining deep nationalist grievances. Drawing on years of detailed fieldwork, Bertrand analyses the paths that led from secessionist mobilization to a range of outcomes. These include persistent state repression for Malay Muslims in Thailand, low level violence under a top-down 'special autonomy' for Papuans, reframing of mobilizing from nationalist to indigenous peoples in the Cordillera, a long and broken path to an untested broad autonomy for the Moros and relatively successful broad autonomy for Acehnese.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertrand, Jacques

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Nationalist conflict in democratic contexts; 3. Aceh: from violent insurgency to broad-based autonomy; 4. Papua: failed autonomy and divided they stand; 5. Moros of Mindanao: the long and treacherous path to 'Bangsamoro' autonomy; 6. 'Exit and reframe': from Cordillera 'nation' to 'indigenous peoples'; 7. Malay Muslims in Thailand; 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Bertrand, Jacques
Jacques Bertrand is Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at the University of Toronto.