New Books at ISEAS Library – Jul 2023

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


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