Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- PART 1: SOCIETY AND POLITICS -- 1 Integrating ASEAN and Fragmenting ARF in a Subregional and Regional Context -- Introduction -- Consensus Politics in a Subregional Context -- Great Power Politics in a Regional Context -- Subregionalisation and Regionalisation in Southeast Asia -- An Evaluation -- Notes -- 2 Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Cases of Singapore and Malaysia -- Civil Society: Significance in Southeast Asia and in the World -- Singapore and Malaysia: Different Income Levels and Spectacular Economic Growth Rates -- Why Focus on the Labour Activism in Malaysia and Singapore? -- Singapore and Labour Inactivism -- Malaysia and Labour Inactivism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Constructing the 'China Circle' in China and Southeast Asia: State Policy, the Presence of Chinese Overseas and Globalisation -- Introduction -- State Policy: Chinese Overseas Investment and its Impacts -- Framing The 'Overseas Chinese': From Culturalist Explanation To Orientalism -- Conclusion: 'China Circle' in Action - Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurs and Globalisation -- Notes -- References -- 4 Gender and Development in Post-Crisis Southeast Asia -- How has the Asian Economic Crisis impacted on Women? -- What was Women's Economic Significance in the East Asian 'Miracle Economies'? -- Economic Recovery for Whom? -- The Relevance of' Gender and Development' in Shaping the Economic Future of Southeast Asia -- Notes -- References -- PART 2: ECONOMY AND LABOUR -- 5 Emergence of a Global Economy in Southeast Asia: 1990s and Beyond -- The Emergence of the Southeast Asia Economies -- The Structural Change in the Southeast Asia Economies -- Globalisation of Southeast Asian Economies -- Financial Crisis and Challenges in the Twenty-first Century