Donald K Emmerson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 278073 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Donald K Emmerson |
| NOMBRES | Donald K |
| APELLIDO | Emmerson |
| FIRMA | EMMERSON D K |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 213 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Deer and the Dragon
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Singapore and Goliath
Since the time of Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015), Singapore’s leaders have refused to infer, merely from the country’s size and composition, a need to appease the People’s Republic of China (PRC). They have remained averse to the notion that little countries should kowtow to big ones, and they firmly reject the idea that their country is somehow racially embedded in a “greater China” whose roads all lead to Beijing. In recent years, however, the PRC ha…
Asean between China and America
Admirers of ASEAN are impressed with the fact that it continues to exist and that an outright war has never broken out between its members. Also often praised is the value to the region of promoting cooperation through the consensual process known as the ‘ASEAN Way’. If ASEAN is a talk shop, these observers say, talking is at least better than fighting. ASEAN's increasingly numerous and vocal critics reply that by valuing process more than produc…
Roundtable
Indonesia Beyond Suharto
This text presents an accessible introduction to the most significant problems facing Indonesia and raises issues for further investigations. It addresses such questions as: how has Indonesia managed to remain one country?; and is there a truly national Indonesian culture
Producing Indonesia
The Spectrum of Comparisons
Kishore’s World
This critique of the writings of Singaporean analyst Kishore Mahbubani argues that he reduces diversity and complexity to crude either-or stereotypes, as in his master narrative pitting “the West” against “the Rest.” In accusing “the Western mind” of being able to think only in black-and-white terms, he contradicts his own Manichean method. His prejudice against “the West” leads him to patronize Aung San Suu Kyi while distorting and deriding her …
Southeast Asia
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia vary widely by type of regime and quality of governance. Those that are the most democratic are not always the best governed, and the reverse is also true. Based on evidence from these countries, this essay explores two propositions—one normative, the other empirical. The normative argument is this: Good things ought to go together. Because democracy is more humane than dictatorship, democracy in Southeast A…
Hard choices
The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism. Should ASEAN's leaders defend a member country's citizens against state predation for the sake of justice - and risk splitting ASEAN itself? Or should regional leaders privilege state security over human security for the sake of order - and risk being known as a dic…
Asean’s “Black Swans
In November of 2007, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrated its fortieth birthday at a gathering of the organization’s ten member states in Singapore. It was a celebration eclipsed by news of the military junta’s brutal repression of protests in Burma, an ASEAN member. The task of plotting a way forward for ASEAN has been punctuated by this and other improbable events, such as the March 2008 electoral losses of Malaysia’s r…
Challenging Asean
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 29, Number 3, December 2007
What do the blind-sided see? Reapproaching regionalism in Southeast Asia
The late Michael Leifer’s association with an insecurity-focused realist ap-proach to international affairs and his work on Southeast Asian regionalism inspire this question: How have the Asian financial crisis and the ‘war on terror ’ affected the plausibility of insecurity-concerned realism compared with other ways of approach-ing regionalism in Southeast Asia? Five general approaches (and featured themes) are presented: realism (insecurity), c…
Security, Community, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a pluralistic security community (PSC)? Does community cause security in Southeast Asia? In a PSC, member states are sovereign. So are the members of ASEAN. Before concluding that the ASEAN region is a PSC, however, one should distinguish between two versions: a thin or descriptive PSC, whose members share both a sense of community and the expectation of security, and a thick or explanatory ve…
Indonesia’s Approaching Elections
Indonesia’s democratic experiment is scheduled to undergo an unprecedented series of political tests in 2004: legislative elections at national, provincial and district levels in April; the first round of a first-ever direct presidential election in July; and if no candidate wins an absolute majority on the first round, a second round of presidential balloting in September. These contests could exacerbate underlying cleavages, and the results cou…
Will Indonesia Survive
Southeast Asia After the Crisis
Southeast Asia After the CrisisA Tale of Three Countries Donald K. Emmerson (bio) First came the boom. For at least three of the six years from 1991 through 1996, each of Southeast Asia’s “tiger” economies—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand—enjoyed a rate of economic growth of 8 percent or faster. Each year during this period, the pace of the slowest tiger in the GDP race substantially exceeded the world’s rate of growth. Then came the …
Economic rupture as political Rorschach
The paradigmatic significance of the East Asian crisis can be examined on the two major models used to analyse post‐Cold War politics: Fukuyama's ‘End of History’ paradigm and Huntington's ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory. Comparable to a Rorschach test in which a splotch of ink can be interpreted in many different ways, the crisis’ overall effect in auguring the evolution of political systems has been anything but clear. While the recent events i…
East Asia's miracle postponed
Americanizing Asia
Region and recalcitrance
The spread of liberal democracy around the world has raised the risk of wishful thinking by students of democratization who hope that what they study will happen. One way of reducing this risk is to focus on regions that challenge the expectations and explanations of democratization. Four criteria can roughly measure a region's ‘recalcitrance’ in this regard: the extent to which it: (1) lacks liberal democracy, thus disappointing democ‐ratizers; …
Singapore and the "Asian Values" Debate
Singapore and the “Asian Values” Debate Donald K. Emmerson (bio) In the middle of a long night some years ago I found myself in Singapore, tired after a trans-Pacific flight, riding a taxi down the multilane straightaway from Changi Airport into town. The highway at that hour was nearly empty and the police were nowhere in sight. Whenever the driver exceeded the speed limit, a mellifluous chime sounded from underneath his dashboard, ceasing only …
Organizing the Rim
Essay| December 01 1994 Organizing the Rim: Asia Pacific Regionalism Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson is a visiting professor at the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. His latest publication is a chapter in The Pacific Century: Scenarios for Regional Cooperation (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994), edited by Barbara K. Bundy et al. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cur…
State and society in Indonesia
Arief Budiman, editor. State and Civil Society in Indonesia. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 22. Clayton, Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1990. Pp. xiv, 538. A$17.00, paper
Japan's New Imperialism
Southeast Asia
Some names, like "rose", acknowledge what exists. Others, like "unicorn", create what otherwise would not exist. In between lie names that simultaneously describe and invent reality. "Southeast Asia" is one of these. Some who study the region treat it as if it were Shakespeare's rose: a reality existing independently of its name. Others would agree with Waddell that an observer of "Southeast Asia" who uses the name incautiously risks hallucinatin…
Singapore and the "Asian Values" Debate
Singapore and the “Asian Values” Debate Donald K. Emmerson (bio) In the middle of a long night some years ago I found myself in Singapore, tired after a trans-Pacific flight, riding a taxi down the multilane straightaway from Changi Airport into town. The highway at that hour was nearly empty and the police were nowhere in sight. Whenever the driver exceeded the speed limit, a mellifluous chime sounded from underneath his dashboard, ceasing only …
Security, Community, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a pluralistic security community (PSC)? Does community cause security in Southeast Asia? In a PSC, member states are sovereign. So are the members of ASEAN. Before concluding that the ASEAN region is a PSC, however, one should distinguish between two versions: a thin or descriptive PSC, whose members share both a sense of community and the expectation of security, and a thick or explanatory ve…
Region and recalcitrance
The spread of liberal democracy around the world has raised the risk of wishful thinking by students of democratization who hope that what they study will happen. One way of reducing this risk is to focus on regions that challenge the expectations and explanations of democratization. Four criteria can roughly measure a region's ‘recalcitrance’ in this regard: the extent to which it: (1) lacks liberal democracy, thus disappointing democ‐ratizers; …
Hard choices
The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism. Should ASEAN's leaders defend a member country's citizens against state predation for the sake of justice - and risk splitting ASEAN itself? Or should regional leaders privilege state security over human security for the sake of order - and risk being known as a dic…
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Asean’s “Black Swans
In November of 2007, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrated its fortieth birthday at a gathering of the organization’s ten member states in Singapore. It was a celebration eclipsed by news of the military junta’s brutal repression of protests in Burma, an ASEAN member. The task of plotting a way forward for ASEAN has been punctuated by this and other improbable events, such as the March 2008 electoral losses of Malaysia’s r…
Southeast Asia
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia vary widely by type of regime and quality of governance. Those that are the most democratic are not always the best governed, and the reverse is also true. Based on evidence from these countries, this essay explores two propositions—one normative, the other empirical. The normative argument is this: Good things ought to go together. Because democracy is more humane than dictatorship, democracy in Southeast A…
Issues in Southeast Asian History
Three dimensions capture much of the variation in Western scholarly images of Southeast Asian history. Different works attribute to the region different combinations of relative unity or diversity, continuity or change , and originality or dependence . Each of these choices summarizes a major controversy in the study of Southeast Asia. Together they form a cube that can be used to review existing literature and to identify room for future interpr…
What do the blind-sided see? Reapproaching regionalism in Southeast Asia
The late Michael Leifer’s association with an insecurity-focused realist ap-proach to international affairs and his work on Southeast Asian regionalism inspire this question: How have the Asian financial crisis and the ‘war on terror ’ affected the plausibility of insecurity-concerned realism compared with other ways of approach-ing regionalism in Southeast Asia? Five general approaches (and featured themes) are presented: realism (insecurity), c…
Students and Politics in Developing Nations
Indonesia’s Approaching Elections
Indonesia’s democratic experiment is scheduled to undergo an unprecedented series of political tests in 2004: legislative elections at national, provincial and district levels in April; the first round of a first-ever direct presidential election in July; and if no candidate wins an absolute majority on the first round, a second round of presidential balloting in September. These contests could exacerbate underlying cleavages, and the results cou…
Kishore’s World
This critique of the writings of Singaporean analyst Kishore Mahbubani argues that he reduces diversity and complexity to crude either-or stereotypes, as in his master narrative pitting “the West” against “the Rest.” In accusing “the Western mind” of being able to think only in black-and-white terms, he contradicts his own Manichean method. His prejudice against “the West” leads him to patronize Aung San Suu Kyi while distorting and deriding her …
Will Indonesia Survive
Asean between China and America
Admirers of ASEAN are impressed with the fact that it continues to exist and that an outright war has never broken out between its members. Also often praised is the value to the region of promoting cooperation through the consensual process known as the ‘ASEAN Way’. If ASEAN is a talk shop, these observers say, talking is at least better than fighting. ASEAN's increasingly numerous and vocal critics reply that by valuing process more than produc…
Southeast Asia After the Crisis
Southeast Asia After the CrisisA Tale of Three Countries Donald K. Emmerson (bio) First came the boom. For at least three of the six years from 1991 through 1996, each of Southeast Asia’s “tiger” economies—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand—enjoyed a rate of economic growth of 8 percent or faster. Each year during this period, the pace of the slowest tiger in the GDP race substantially exceeded the world’s rate of growth. Then came the …
Understanding the New Order
Foreign scholars have not been able to agree on the nature of the New Order that has ruled Indonesia since 1966. A major difference of opinion has arisen over the extent to which General Suharto's regime concentrates or disperses power. In some writings, the New Order appears as a single, dominant, and purposeful actor. In others, the regime is pictured as a congeries of distinctive individuals and groups. From a third viewpoint between these ext…
Roundtable
Challenging Asean
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 29, Number 3, December 2007
Americanizing Asia
State and society in Indonesia
Arief Budiman, editor. State and Civil Society in Indonesia. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 22. Clayton, Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1990. Pp. xiv, 538. A$17.00, paper
Diversity, democracy, and the ‘lessons’ of Soviet failure
Indonesia in 1983
Research Article| February 01 1984 Indonesia in 1983: Plus Ça Change... Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1955) 24 (2): 135–148. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644432 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
The Case for a Maritime Perspective on Southeast Asia
On early European maps of what is now called Southeast Asia, the sea lies in the foreground, its whales and mermaids, waves and ships precisely drawn and prominent. To a modern reader looking back through centuries, with hindsight, such maps may illustrate ignorance, science lapsing into art, the greater scale ofsea features compared to those on land a straightforward function of the ocean's being a larger, blanker slate on which to draw. Yet the…
Students and Politics in Developing Nations
Students and Politics in Developing Nations
Students and Politics in Developing Nations
Indonesia's Elite. Political Culture and Cultural Politics
Indonesia's Elite, Political Culture and Cultural Politics
Issues in Southeast Asian History
Three dimensions capture much of the variation in Western scholarly images of Southeast Asian history. Different works attribute to the region different combinations of relative unity or diversity, continuity or change , and originality or dependence . Each of these choices summarizes a major controversy in the study of Southeast Asia. Together they form a cube that can be used to review existing literature and to identify room for future interpr…
The Case for a Maritime Perspective on Southeast Asia
On early European maps of what is now called Southeast Asia, the sea lies in the foreground, its whales and mermaids, waves and ships precisely drawn and prominent. To a modern reader looking back through centuries, with hindsight, such maps may illustrate ignorance, science lapsing into art, the greater scale ofsea features compared to those on land a straightforward function of the ocean's being a larger, blanker slate on which to draw. Yet the…
The Eastasia Edge
Understanding the New Order
Foreign scholars have not been able to agree on the nature of the New Order that has ruled Indonesia since 1966. A major difference of opinion has arisen over the extent to which General Suharto's regime concentrates or disperses power. In some writings, the New Order appears as a single, dominant, and purposeful actor. In others, the regime is pictured as a congeries of distinctive individuals and groups. From a third viewpoint between these ext…
Indonesia in 1983
Research Article| February 01 1984 Indonesia in 1983: Plus Ça Change... Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1955) 24 (2): 135–148. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644432 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
Southeast Asia
Some names, like "rose", acknowledge what exists. Others, like "unicorn", create what otherwise would not exist. In between lie names that simultaneously describe and invent reality. "Southeast Asia" is one of these. Some who study the region treat it as if it were Shakespeare's rose: a reality existing independently of its name. Others would agree with Waddell that an observer of "Southeast Asia" who uses the name incautiously risks hallucinatin…
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Invisible Indonesia
Diversity, democracy, and the ‘lessons’ of Soviet failure
Power and Pancaroba
The Indonesian word pancaroba has no equivalent in English. Panca connotes variety in space. Roba means change over time. Their combination implies disorder and disorientation in spacetime, as when strong winds gust 'out of time' in the space between seasons the dry season over, its wet successor not yet under way. Politically the term can refer, for example, to the proliferation of uncertainty dangers alongside opportunities in the pregnant vacu…
"Power and "Pancaroba
Indonesia in 1990
Research Article| February 01 1991 Indonesia in 1990: A Foreshadow Play Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (2): 179–187. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644929 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation …
State and society in Indonesia
Arief Budiman, editor. State and Civil Society in Indonesia. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 22. Clayton, Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1990. Pp. xiv, 538. A$17.00, paper
Japan's New Imperialism
Organizing the Rim
Essay| December 01 1994 Organizing the Rim: Asia Pacific Regionalism Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson Donald K. Emmerson is a visiting professor at the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. His latest publication is a chapter in The Pacific Century: Scenarios for Regional Cooperation (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994), edited by Barbara K. Bundy et al. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cur…
Region and recalcitrance
The spread of liberal democracy around the world has raised the risk of wishful thinking by students of democratization who hope that what they study will happen. One way of reducing this risk is to focus on regions that challenge the expectations and explanations of democratization. Four criteria can roughly measure a region's ‘recalcitrance’ in this regard: the extent to which it: (1) lacks liberal democracy, thus disappointing democ‐ratizers; …
Singapore and the "Asian Values" Debate
Singapore and the “Asian Values” Debate Donald K. Emmerson (bio) In the middle of a long night some years ago I found myself in Singapore, tired after a trans-Pacific flight, riding a taxi down the multilane straightaway from Changi Airport into town. The highway at that hour was nearly empty and the police were nowhere in sight. Whenever the driver exceeded the speed limit, a mellifluous chime sounded from underneath his dashboard, ceasing only …
Economic rupture as political Rorschach
The paradigmatic significance of the East Asian crisis can be examined on the two major models used to analyse post‐Cold War politics: Fukuyama's ‘End of History’ paradigm and Huntington's ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory. Comparable to a Rorschach test in which a splotch of ink can be interpreted in many different ways, the crisis’ overall effect in auguring the evolution of political systems has been anything but clear. While the recent events i…
East Asia's miracle postponed
Americanizing Asia
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