After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especially Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia and the Philippines-after the Asian financial crisis. This
eleventh volume of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia takes up the complex
interactions and tensions among Southeast Asian states, markets and
societies within the context of a regional order under American
hegemony, with emphasis on individuals and collectives whose thoughts
and actions actively intervene in the shaping of relations between and
among the three realms. The book discusses the formation of the regional
order, the shift in US policy from condoning to dismantling
authoritarian developmentalist regimes in light of challenges posed by
Asian global competitiveness, and US deployment of a multilateral,
neoliberal economism mediated by the IMF as a way of imposing structural
reforms on now democratizing states. The book also examines social
responses which took the form of elite and popular nationalist backlash
against globalization and Americanization.