Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
"The New Frontier of Local Politics in Southeast Asia in the Era of
Globalization; The Capital City, the Border and the Energy Crops Area"
Project Leader: OKAMOTO, Masaaki
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Southeast Asian countries muddled through the Asian economic crisis in
1997 and are now transforming their economy, politics and society with
the global development and expansion of business and ideological networks.
This research project has the aim to analyze the impacts of these networks
on Southeast Asian local politics and see whether these impacts have been
homogenizing the patterns and structures of local politics irrespective
of the political regime. The main focus is put on the local politics of
the "capital city," "energy crop area" and "border
area" because these areas are most vulnerable to globalization. Even
though these areas clearly show the interconnected positive and negative
impacts of three powers of global networks, the state and local society,
there are just a few studies on the local politics of these areas. My research
is an ambitious trial to analyze them in a comparative perspective and
we have already conducted some joint research in Manila, Jakarta and Bangkok.
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