Japanese FDI Flows in Asia: Perspectives and Challenges
By M.L. Lakhera
Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008, 232pp.
This book tracks trends
in Japanese FDI to other Asian countries, and offers suggestions for future
policy design, analyses methodological aspects, and provides an overview of
various facets of Japanese FDI. This book focuses on FDI flows to the Asia's
'four dragons' - Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan - to the second wave
of Asian NIEs - Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia - and to the
rising powers of China and India, covering a 4-year time span up to the current
WTO period.
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Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
By Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson (Editors)
Aldershot,
Ashgate Publishing, 2008, 248 pp.
This volume explores the extent to which moderate
Indonesian Islam is able to assimilate leading concepts from Western political
theory. The essays in this collection explore how concepts from Western
political theory are compatible with a liberal interpretation of Islamic
universals and how such universals can form the basis for a contemporary
approach to the protection of human rights and the articulation of a
modern Islamic civil society.
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The Armies of Angkor: Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers
By Michel Jacq-Hergoualch (Translated by Michael Smithies)
Bangkok, Orchid Press, 2007, 178 pp.
with 158 b/w illustrations and line drawings.
This book
reconstructs a vivid image of the Khmer army, providing insight into its
organization, technology and strategies. Such was the quality of the relief
images that, along the way, we also observe some fascinating and diverse
aspects of Khmer life, include details of clothing and textile patterns, hair
styles and body ornaments. The Khmer army was in reality an international
force, and reliefs also illustrate Siamese, Vietnamese and Chinese mercenaries
among the ranks, as well as providing significant details of the Cham forces,
the Khmer's arch enemies, with whom they are often engaged in battle.
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Going Back: Australian veterans return to Viet Nam
By Gary McKay
St. Leonards, Allen and
Unwin, 2007, 252 pp.
This book is a detailed and highly personal
collection of the experiences of Australian Vietnam War veterans as they
journey back to the land where they once fought and lost their innocence. The
author travelled with them and interviewed over thirty veterans and their
partners and the book records their strong and sometimes unexpected reactions
to returning to a country that has changed in places beyond all recognition,
and is elsewhere all too familiar.
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A River Kwai Story: The Sonkrai Tribunal
By Robin Rowland
St. Leonards, Allen and
Unwin, 2008, 400 pp.
More prisoners of war
died at Sonkrai than any other camp on the infamous River Kwai Railway. After
the war, a military tribunal tried five Japanese and two Koreans for the deaths
in the camp. The account of the trial tells for the first time the story of F
force from all sides - Australian, British and Japanese - from the lowest
private to the lieutenant colonels in charge. Along with the testimony,
verdict, and the surprise sentence, this book sheds new light on what really
happened on the Railway of Death.
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