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Highlights
The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia / Marcus Mietzner. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Call no: JQ771 M63
“The Coalitions Presidents Make details the process through which presidents balance their own powers and interests with those of their partners, encouraging patronage-oriented collaboration and disincentivizing confrontation. The author explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world’s most stable. He argues that since 2004, Indonesian presidents have deployed nuanced strategies of coalition building to consolidate their authority and these coalitions are responsible for the regime stability in place today. In building coalitions, Indonesian presidents have looked beyond parties and parliament-the traditional partners of presidents in most other countries” — Publisher.
The geopolitics of religious soft power: how states use religion in foreign policy / edited by Peter Mandaville. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Call no: BL65 I55G34
“This edited volume on “The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power” explores how states across multiple world regions and a diverse range of faith traditions incorporate religion as an aspect of their foreign policy. The contributing authors are leading experts from around the world, and their chapters explore the role of religion in the global engagement of countries such as Brazil, China, India, Iran, Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States. States such as Israel and the Holy See, which by their nature have a unique relationship with religion, are also included.” — Publisher.
Other new arrivals
by country in alphabetical order, then by region
Cambodia
The Empire looks South: Chinese perceptions of Cambodia before and during the Kingdom of Angkor / Peter Harris; preface by David Chandler. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2023.
Call no: DS554.34 H31
Indonesia
Electrifying Indonesia: technology and social justice in national development / Anto Mohsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
Call no: HD9685 I52M69
Ethics of belonging: education, religion, and politics in Manado, Indonesia / Erica M. Larson. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2024.
Call no: BL2120 C4L33
Infrastructures of impunity: New Order violence in Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler. Ithaca New York.: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024.
Call no: JC599 I5D77
Indonesia’s international economic strategies / Kiki Verico. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2023.
Call no: HF1597 V51
Merdeka: perang kemerdekaan dan kebangkitan republik yang tak pasti (1945-1950) / Harry Poeze dan Henk Schulte Nordholt; penerjemah, Susi Moeimam, Nurhayu Santoso, dan Maya Sutedja-Liem; pengantar, Bambang Purwanto, Bonnie Triyana. Jakarta: Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia: KITLV-Jakarta, 2023.
Call no: DS644 P74
Malaysia
Forgotten heroes: the true story of Sarawak people who fought and died assisting allied forces in WWII / Paul Malone. Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2024.
Call no: D767.5 M25
Malaysian cinema and beyond: genre, representation, and the nation / edited by Wan Aida Wan Yahaya. Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2024.
Call no: PN1993.5 M3M23
Myanmar
After the coup: Myanmar’s political and humanitarian crises / edited by Anthony Ware and Monique Skidmore. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press, 2023.
Call no: JZ1727 A9A38
An unlikely prisoner / Sean Turnell. Victoria, Australia: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.
Call no: DS530.68 T94A3
Philippines
China and the Philippines: a connected history, c. 1900-50 / Phillip B. Guingona. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Call no: DS740.5 P5G96
Some people need killing: a memoir of murder in the Philippines / Patricia Evangelista. London: Grove Press UK, 2023.
Call no: DS686.614 E92
Vicassan’s Pilipino-English dictionary. Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2019.
Call no: PL6056 S23 2019
The art of collecting: a guide to the Philippine market / Joseph Sedfrey S. Santiago. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2020.
Call no: NK1125 S23
Thailand
Fleeing one homeland and adopting another: the construction of state identity in a northern Thailand village / Zhang Jinpeng; translated by Zhang Jiangcheng. New York: Peter Lang, 2023.
Call no: DS588 C53Z63
Vietnam
Number one realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese revolutionary warfare / Nathaniel L. Moir. London: Hurst & Company, 2021.
Call no: DS557.7 M71
Asia-Pacific
An anxious inheritance: religious others and the shaping of Sunnī orthodoxy / Aaron W. Hughes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call no: BP171.5 H89
Islamic ecumene: comparing Muslim societies / edited by David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Call no: BP52 I82
The Middle East and the Malay world: contemporary issues and future challenges / edited by Abdolreza Alami & Muna H. Bilgrami. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2023.
Call no: DS63.2 M3M62
Pan-Asianism and the legacy of the Chinese Revolution / Viren Murthy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Call no: DS33.1 M98
Pre-Islamic Arabia: societies, politics, cults and identities during late antiquity / Valentina A. Grasso. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Call no: DS231 G76
Reshaping economic interdependence in the Indo-Pacific / edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Wills; with contributions from Victor A. Ferguson and 10 others.. Seattle; Washington, D.C: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2023.
Call no: DS341 R43
Climate change and the environment
Grassroots globalization: reforestation and cultural revitalization in the Philippine Cordilleras / by Shimizu Hiromu; translated by Alexander Brown. Quezon city: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019.
Call no: DS666 I15S55
Media, technology and society
Directed digital dissidence in autocracies: how China wins online / Jason Gainous, Rongbin Han, Andrew W. MacDonald, Kevin M. Wagner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Call no: JA85.2 C5G14
Others
Monetary policy and its unintended consequences / Raghuram Rajan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2023.
Call no: HG1811 R16
Power to the people: the first 20 years of Nordic power-market integration / Hans-Arild Bredesen and Terje Nilsen. Oslo.: Nord Pool Spot NASDAQ OMX Commodities, 2013.
Call no: HD9685 S28B83
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