Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia (4th edition)

The introduction to this dictionary starts with a Malay idiom, which translated means “when elephants fight, the mouse deer gets trampled between”. This volume describes the “mouse deer” in the middle of rivalries between superpowers and regional powers. With the recent election of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar, with a chastened military power, points to just one sign of the sea-changes unfolding in Southeast Asia. This dictionary, now in its fourth edition, is edited by Joseph Chinyoung Liow, who holds the Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution. The...