Resisting Dictatorship
Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia

Vincent Boudreau's book is a genuinely comparative study of repression and protest in South East Asia.

Vincent Boudreau (Author)

9780521839891, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2004

308 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.62 kg

"a major study whose greatest strength is its ability to link forms of authoritarian rule (with a particular emphasis on authoritarians' ways of taking power and initial repression of society) with the subsequent development of opposition. For students of Southeast Asian politics and scholars generally interested in regime types, oppostion protest and social movements, this is truly a must read." - Mark R. Thompson, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Vincent Boudreau's book compares state repression in three post-war dictatorships under Burma's Ne Win, Indonesia's Suharto and the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos. In each case the dictator faced distinct social challenges and responded with specifically tailored repressive strategies. These strategies shaped the resources, social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and in turn influenced the effectiveness of that opposition. The author balances his first-hand research in the countries in question with the social movements literature to consider the long-term interactions between the regimes and their societies in the wake of repression, and the emergence of the democracy movements which followed. This is a thought-provoking book, which offers a truly comparative study on dictatorship, resistance and democracy in South East Asia. As such, it will be invaluable to students, as well as to those involved in policy making and commentating on the region.

1. Introduction
2. Protest, repression and transition in Southeast Asia
3. Authoritarian attack and dictatorial rise
4. Protest in socialist Burma
5. New order repression and the Indonesian opposition
6. The Philippine new society and state repression
7. Repression and protest in comparative perspective
8. People power and insurgency in the Philippine transition
9. Protest and the underground in Burma
10. Indonesia's democracy protests
11. Democracy protest and state repression
List of references
Index.

Subject Areas: Political control & freedoms [JPV], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Asian history [HBJF]