Dilemmas of Statehood in Southeast Asia

by Michael Leifer

Among the recently decolonized states of Southeast Asia 'nation-building' has become a commonplace expression of governmental intent. This study of political life in the region draws an important distinction, however, between political integration and the more ambitious ideal of national integration. The former requires a common government; the latter a common people. It is argued with effect that the more urgent task facing the new states of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774800127
• ISBN13: 9780774800129
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 168 Pages