Highlights
Fire and rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the wars in Southeast Asia / Carolyn Woods Eisenberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Call no: E855 E36
“Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of readers. ” — Publisher.
The Angkorian world / edited by Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark and Damian Evans. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: DS554.98 A5A584
“The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries.” — Publisher.
Other new arrivals
by country in alphabetical order, then by region
Cambodia
Famine in Cambodia: geopolitics, biopolitics, necropolitics / James A. Tyner. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Call no: HC79 F3T98
Khmer nationalist: Sơn Ngọc Thành, the CIA, and the transformation of Cambodia / Matthew Jagel. Ithaca, New York: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Call no: DS554.8 J24
Indonesia
Hierarchies of power: evangelical Christianity and Adat transformation in Indonesian Borneo / Imam Ardhianto. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Call no: BR1644.5 I5A67
Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions / Abidin Kusno. Singapore: NUS Press, 2023.
Call no: HT147 I5K97
The art of environmental activism in Indonesia: shifting horizons / Edwin Jurriëns. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Call no: N8217 E28J95
The continuity of pre-Islamic motifs in Javanese mosque ornamentation, Indonesia / Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022.
Call no: NA3580 A3Y51
Laos
Deep tears: post-war Hmong resistance in Laos (1975-1990) / Gayle L. Morrison. United States: publisher not identified, 2023.
Call no: DS555.45 M5M87
Malaysia
Regaining control: Malaysian economic policy during COVID and beyond / Shankaran Nambiar. Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2023.
Call no: HC445.5 Z9E6N17
The independence and integrity of election commission in Malaysia / Muhammad Fathi Yusof. Johor Bharu, Johor Darul Ta’zim: Penerbit UTM Press, 2022.
Call no: JQ1062 A95M951
Myanmar
Baptizing Burma: religious change in the last Buddhist kingdom / Alexandra Kaloyanides. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
Call no: BR128 B8K14
Civil resistance and democracy promotion: a comparative study analysis / Michael Schulz. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: JQ751 A91S38
Myanmar in crisis: living with the pandemic and the coup / edited by Justine Chambers and Michael R. Dunford. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS530.4 B972 2021
Myanmar’s changing political landscape: old and new struggles / Makiko Takeda, Chosein Yamahata, editors. Singapore: Springer, 2023.
Call no: DS530.65 M994
Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar / Gerard McCarthy. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Call no: HC422 M47
Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must go back to the barracks / Oliver Slow. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Call no: DS530.65 S63
Singapore
He Who is Made Lord: empire, class and race in postwar Singapore / Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: JF251 M95
Thailand
ขวาสุดขั้ว: ระบอบคนดีกับการเมืองยุคประชาธิปไตยกลับหลังหัน / วสุชน รักษ์ประชาไท กรุงเทพมหานคร: สำนักพิมพ์มติชน, 2566.
Call no: BQ4570 S7W32
Subversive archaism: troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritage / Michael Herzfeld. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
Call no: JC311 H58
เทวา มนตรา คาถา เกจิ: ไสยศาสตร์สมัยใหม่กับทุน (ไทย) นิยม / Peter A. Jackson เขียน ; วิราวรรณ นฤปิติ แปล. กรุงเทพฯ: มติชน, 2566.
Call no: BF1623 F55J121
Vietnam
Law and precarity: legal consciousness and daily survival in Vietnam / Tu Phuong Nguyen. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Call no: KPV1469 N57
ASEAN and Southeast Asia
Becoming Jihadis: radicalization and commitment in Southeast Asia / Julie Chernov Hwang. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Call no: HV6433 A9C52
From insurgent to citizen: World War, insurgency, and confrontation in Malaya and Singapore / Thomas Chow Swee Leong (Hor Leong). Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2023.
Call no: DS597.15 C551
In the shadow of the Member States: policy-making agency by the ASEAN Secretariat and dialogue partners / Lukas Maximilian Müller. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Call no: DS526.7 M95
Organized labor in Southeast Asia / Teri L. Caraway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Call no: HD6815.8 C26
Populations and precarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Southeast Asian perspectives / edited by Kevin S.Y. Tan, Steve K.L. Chan. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: HB3641 P83
Post-pandemic green recovery in ASEAN / edited by Farhan Taghizadeh-Hesary, Nisit Panthamit, Naoyuki Yoshino, and Han Phoumin. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: HC79 E5P85
The camphor tree and the elephant: religion and ecological change in maritime Southeast Asia / Faizah Zakaria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Call no: GF80 Z21
The opium queen: the untold story of the rebel who ruled the Golden Triangle / Gabrielle Paluch. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Call no: DS526.9 P18
Unpacking the death penalty in ASEAN / Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mark P. Capaldi, Alan Collins, editors. Singapore: Springer, 2023.
Call no: HV8699 A9U58
Asia-Pacific
China, faits accomplis and the contest for East Asia: the shadow of shifting power / Joshua Adam Hastey. London; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Call no: VA633 H35
China’s asymmetric statecraft: alignments, competitors, and regional diplomacy / Yuxing Huang. Vancouver; Toronto: UBC Press, 2023.
Call no: DS777.8 H87
China’s civilian army: the making of wolf warrior diplomacy / Peter Martin. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Call no: JZ1734 M37
Countering China: US responses to the Belt and Road Initiative / Edward Ashbee. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023.
Call no: E183.8 C5A81
Japan and its partners in the Indo-Pacific: engagements and alignment / edited by Srabani Roy Choudhury. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: DS341.3 J3J35
South Korea’s new southern policy: a middle power’s international relations with Southeast Asia and India / edited by Lam Peng Er. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: JZ1747 S72
The politics of Muslim identities in Asia / edited by Iulia Lumina. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Call no: BP63 A1P76
Threats to peace and international security: Asia versus West: current challenges in a new geopolitical situation / Juan Cayón Peña, J. Martín Ramírez, editors. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023.
Call no: JZ5588 T53
When God stops fighting: how religious violence ends / Mark Juergensmeyer. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2022.
Call no: BP190.5 V56J93