New from Allen and Unwin

Citation

(1999), "New from Allen and Unwin", Asian Libraries, Vol. 8 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1999.17308dad.010

New from Allen and Unwin

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New from Allen and Unwin

Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies, edited by Peter Dauvergne, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998, 220 pp., A$24.95 soft, ISBN 1863739831

Arising from a workshop held in 1997, this study examines the concepts of weak and strong states within a state-in-society approach. It focuses on South East Asia and Melanesia, areas with a wide variety of states and societies, from the seemingly strong states of Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam to the apparently weak states of Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The contributors analyse why so many states stay intact despite poor and internal disorder, why seemingly strong states can be strikingly weak in particular areas or at certain times, and why apparently weak states are sometimes remarkably resilient.