John Funston
Biographic Data
| ID | 729070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Funston |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Funston |
| SIGNATURE | FUNSTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Malaysia's 14th General Election (GE14) -The Contest for the Malay Electorate
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and its allies in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, known as the Alliance until 1974, dominated Malaysian elections for more than six decades. UMNO's winning formula was based on massive support for the politically dominant Malay community, and mobilising government institutions in support of the party. This was undermined towards the end of the 1990s by UMNO disunity, a strengthened civil society…
The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951–2013: Islamism in a Mottled Nation
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, and its evolving ideological postures - from anti-c…
Malaysia and Thailand’s Southern Conflict: Reconciling Security and Ethnicity
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 32, Number 2, August 2010
Thailand: Thaksin Fever
In his annual birthday address to the nation on 4 December 2001, the Thai King adopted a sombre tone. He warned of ego and double standards, and national decline that threatened catastrophe. Prime Minister has a long face now after I mentioned catastrophe, said His Majesty. But I'm telling the truth, because whatever we do, there seems to be big problems. The Prime Minister may appear to be happy, but deep down inside he's definitely not.1 The Ki…
Government and Politics in Southeast Asia
Introduction * 1. Brunei: Malay, monarchical, micro-state - Robert Kershaw * 2. Cambodia: after the killing fields - Sorpong Peou * 3. Indonesia: transforming the leviathan - Anthony L. Smith * 4. Laos: land-locked outpost - Nick J. Freeman * 5. Malaysia: developmental state challenged - John Funston * 6. Myanmar: military in charge - Tin Maung Than * 7. Philippines: counting people power - Joaquin L. Gonzalez III & Rizal G. Buendia * 8. Singapor…
Government & Politics in Southeast Asia
There has been an avalanche of publications on Southeast Asia in recent years, but no one volume provides an accurate and up-to-date account of political institutions and practices in the region. This book fills that gap. Each country chapter provides a broad overview of the historical, social and economic setting. It then analyses in detail the political "institutions" of that country -- the constitution, head of state, executive (cabinet and bo…
Malaysia: Umno ́s Search for Relevance
To many observers, Malaysia at the beginning of 2000 appeared a rare case of stability in a turbulent region. Just a month earlier, Dr Mahathir Mohamad had led his government to secure 148 of 193 parliamentary seats in a general election. Political uncertainties had receded, declared a leading financial house.1 Government electoral success, however, came from the support of non Malays on the peninsula and indigenous groups in Sabah and Sarawak, w…
La politique Thaïe: Mondialisation, régionalisme et crise économique
La reponse multi-facettes de la Thailande a la crise de 1997 a ete basee sur la premisse que la cause principale de sa situation difficile etait la faiblesse de son economie interieure. Si les dirigeants thais n’ont pas completement ignore les aspects internationaux, ils ne les ont pas consideres comme les facteurs principaux ni voulus risquer de perdre des appuis internationaux en blâmant les etrangers. Ils ont travaille de concert avec le FMI e…
Malaysia ́s Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization
Malaysia ́s Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization
Malaysian politics have been in upheaval since Dr Mohamad sacked his deputy; Anwar Ibrahim, in September 1998. That made 1999 elections one of most keenly contested ever. For first time, ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) faced coalition of major opposition parties, campaigning on common reform platform. result was strong win for BN (148 of 193 seats) but great setback for UMNO, dominant coalition member, which lost 22 seats. Non-Malay support for BN g…
Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined
2000). Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined? Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 89-108
Malaysia: A Fateful September
In December 1974 thousands of demonstrators in Kuala Lumpur were dispersed by baton-wielding police, aided by tear gas. Hundreds were arrested. Among those detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was youth leader Anwar Ibrahim, probably at the behest of Education Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.1 In September 1998 the two key actors held different positions, but the scenes played out were much the same. September began with the unexpected imp…
Challenges Facing Asean in a More Complex Age
Challenges Facing Asean in a More Complex Age
Relations between members of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) took a dramatic turn in late 1998. presidents of Indonesia and the Philippines criticized the Malaysian Government's treatment of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Indonesian President B.J. Habibie cancelled a visit to Malaysia, and at one point both he and Philippine President Joseph Estrada contemplated boycotting the APEC summit in Kuala Lumpur in November. Tha…
Southeast Asian Affairs 1998
Thai Foreign Policy: Seeking Influence
Thailand was the centre of international attention in 1997. No longer was it confused with Taiwan, or completely unrecognized, by journalists at interna tional fora.1 Unfortunately this was not a triumph of foreign policy, but a tragedy of financial mismanagement. Economic problems that led to the float ing of the baht in July triggered attacks on currencies and stock markets throughout much of Southeast Asia, then spread to East Asia and impacte…
Asean: Out of Its Depth
Asean: Out of Its Depth
ASEAN began 1997 under challenge from the United States and the European Union over its plans to admit Myanmar into the Association. It then faced successive crises relating to renewed civil war in Cambodia, the haze problem caused by massive forest fires in Indonesia, and the regional financial turmoil. ASEAN had some success in addressing the first two issues, which resembled problems faced in the past, though they have by no means been resolve…
Thailand's diplomacy on Cambodia: Success ofRealpolitik
Challenge and response in Malaysia: The Umno crisis and the Mahathir style
(1988). Challenge and response in Malaysia: The UMNO crisis and the Mahathir style. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, Emerging Southeast Asia: Development, integration, democracy, pp. 363-373
The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand: Some Preliminary Observations
International relations theorists have long debated the relative salience of inter national as against national and subnational influences on foreign policy. Few, however, deny that all are important. The following study belongs largely in the subnational category, though the place of the Foreign Ministry within the broader national foreign policy structure is also discussed, and some international in fluences noted. The accumulated literature on…
The Third Indochina War and Southeast Asia
Malaysia ́s Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization
The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951–2013: Islamism in a Mottled Nation
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, and its evolving ideological postures - from anti-c…
Asean: Out of Its Depth
ASEAN began 1997 under challenge from the United States and the European Union over its plans to admit Myanmar into the Association. It then faced successive crises relating to renewed civil war in Cambodia, the haze problem caused by massive forest fires in Indonesia, and the regional financial turmoil. ASEAN had some success in addressing the first two issues, which resembled problems faced in the past, though they have by no means been resolve…
Malaysia's 14th General Election (GE14) -The Contest for the Malay Electorate
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and its allies in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, known as the Alliance until 1974, dominated Malaysian elections for more than six decades. UMNO's winning formula was based on massive support for the politically dominant Malay community, and mobilising government institutions in support of the party. This was undermined towards the end of the 1990s by UMNO disunity, a strengthened civil society…
Challenges Facing Asean in a More Complex Age
Thailand's diplomacy on Cambodia: Success ofRealpolitik
Malaysia and Thailand’s Southern Conflict: Reconciling Security and Ethnicity
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 32, Number 2, August 2010
Challenge and response in Malaysia: The Umno crisis and the Mahathir style
(1988). Challenge and response in Malaysia: The UMNO crisis and the Mahathir style. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, Emerging Southeast Asia: Development, integration, democracy, pp. 363-373
Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined
2000). Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined? Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 89-108
Asean: Out of Its Depth
The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand: Some Preliminary Observations
International relations theorists have long debated the relative salience of inter national as against national and subnational influences on foreign policy. Few, however, deny that all are important. The following study belongs largely in the subnational category, though the place of the Foreign Ministry within the broader national foreign policy structure is also discussed, and some international in fluences noted. The accumulated literature on…
The Third Indochina War and Southeast Asia
The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand: Some Preliminary Observations
International relations theorists have long debated the relative salience of inter national as against national and subnational influences on foreign policy. Few, however, deny that all are important. The following study belongs largely in the subnational category, though the place of the Foreign Ministry within the broader national foreign policy structure is also discussed, and some international in fluences noted. The accumulated literature on…
Challenge and response in Malaysia: The Umno crisis and the Mahathir style
(1988). Challenge and response in Malaysia: The UMNO crisis and the Mahathir style. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, Emerging Southeast Asia: Development, integration, democracy, pp. 363-373
Thai Foreign Policy: Seeking Influence
Thailand was the centre of international attention in 1997. No longer was it confused with Taiwan, or completely unrecognized, by journalists at interna tional fora.1 Unfortunately this was not a triumph of foreign policy, but a tragedy of financial mismanagement. Economic problems that led to the float ing of the baht in July triggered attacks on currencies and stock markets throughout much of Southeast Asia, then spread to East Asia and impacte…
Asean: Out of Its Depth
Asean: Out of Its Depth
ASEAN began 1997 under challenge from the United States and the European Union over its plans to admit Myanmar into the Association. It then faced successive crises relating to renewed civil war in Cambodia, the haze problem caused by massive forest fires in Indonesia, and the regional financial turmoil. ASEAN had some success in addressing the first two issues, which resembled problems faced in the past, though they have by no means been resolve…
Thailand's diplomacy on Cambodia: Success ofRealpolitik
Malaysia: A Fateful September
In December 1974 thousands of demonstrators in Kuala Lumpur were dispersed by baton-wielding police, aided by tear gas. Hundreds were arrested. Among those detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was youth leader Anwar Ibrahim, probably at the behest of Education Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.1 In September 1998 the two key actors held different positions, but the scenes played out were much the same. September began with the unexpected imp…
Challenges Facing Asean in a More Complex Age
Challenges Facing Asean in a More Complex Age
Relations between members of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) took a dramatic turn in late 1998. presidents of Indonesia and the Philippines criticized the Malaysian Government's treatment of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Indonesian President B.J. Habibie cancelled a visit to Malaysia, and at one point both he and Philippine President Joseph Estrada contemplated boycotting the APEC summit in Kuala Lumpur in November. Tha…
Southeast Asian Affairs 1998
Malaysia ́s Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization
Malaysia ́s Tenth Elections: Status Quo, Reformasi or Islamization
Malaysian politics have been in upheaval since Dr Mohamad sacked his deputy; Anwar Ibrahim, in September 1998. That made 1999 elections one of most keenly contested ever. For first time, ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) faced coalition of major opposition parties, campaigning on common reform platform. result was strong win for BN (148 of 193 seats) but great setback for UMNO, dominant coalition member, which lost 22 seats. Non-Malay support for BN g…
Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined
2000). Political reform in Thailand: Real or imagined? Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 89-108
Government & Politics in Southeast Asia
There has been an avalanche of publications on Southeast Asia in recent years, but no one volume provides an accurate and up-to-date account of political institutions and practices in the region. This book fills that gap. Each country chapter provides a broad overview of the historical, social and economic setting. It then analyses in detail the political "institutions" of that country -- the constitution, head of state, executive (cabinet and bo…
Malaysia: Umno ́s Search for Relevance
To many observers, Malaysia at the beginning of 2000 appeared a rare case of stability in a turbulent region. Just a month earlier, Dr Mahathir Mohamad had led his government to secure 148 of 193 parliamentary seats in a general election. Political uncertainties had receded, declared a leading financial house.1 Government electoral success, however, came from the support of non Malays on the peninsula and indigenous groups in Sabah and Sarawak, w…
La politique Thaïe: Mondialisation, régionalisme et crise économique
La reponse multi-facettes de la Thailande a la crise de 1997 a ete basee sur la premisse que la cause principale de sa situation difficile etait la faiblesse de son economie interieure. Si les dirigeants thais n’ont pas completement ignore les aspects internationaux, ils ne les ont pas consideres comme les facteurs principaux ni voulus risquer de perdre des appuis internationaux en blâmant les etrangers. Ils ont travaille de concert avec le FMI e…
Thailand: Thaksin Fever
In his annual birthday address to the nation on 4 December 2001, the Thai King adopted a sombre tone. He warned of ego and double standards, and national decline that threatened catastrophe. Prime Minister has a long face now after I mentioned catastrophe, said His Majesty. But I'm telling the truth, because whatever we do, there seems to be big problems. The Prime Minister may appear to be happy, but deep down inside he's definitely not.1 The Ki…
Government and Politics in Southeast Asia
Introduction * 1. Brunei: Malay, monarchical, micro-state - Robert Kershaw * 2. Cambodia: after the killing fields - Sorpong Peou * 3. Indonesia: transforming the leviathan - Anthony L. Smith * 4. Laos: land-locked outpost - Nick J. Freeman * 5. Malaysia: developmental state challenged - John Funston * 6. Myanmar: military in charge - Tin Maung Than * 7. Philippines: counting people power - Joaquin L. Gonzalez III & Rizal G. Buendia * 8. Singapor…
Malaysia and Thailand’s Southern Conflict: Reconciling Security and Ethnicity
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 32, Number 2, August 2010
The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951–2013: Islamism in a Mottled Nation
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, and its evolving ideological postures - from anti-c…
Malaysia's 14th General Election (GE14) -The Contest for the Malay Electorate
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and its allies in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, known as the Alliance until 1974, dominated Malaysian elections for more than six decades. UMNO's winning formula was based on massive support for the politically dominant Malay community, and mobilising government institutions in support of the party. This was undermined towards the end of the 1990s by UMNO disunity, a strengthened civil society…
Political science (20 works) · Law (12 works) · Asian Studies and History (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)