Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia

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Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression, and the subsequent emergence of democracy. Boudreau offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.


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Vince Boudreau's book compares the relationship between state repression and social resistance under the dictatorships of Burma's Ne Win, Indonesia's Suharto and the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos. In each case the dictator faced distinct social challenges and responded with specifically tailored repressive strategies. These strategies shaped dissidents' resources, social bases and opposition cultures, and so influenced the entire pattern and effectiveness of dissent and political contention. The author considers his first-hand research in the countries in question in light of the social movements literature to analyse the long-term interactions between the regimes and their societies in the wake of repression, and during the democracy movements that followed. This thought-provoking book offers one of the first truly comparative studies of dictatorship, resistance and democratization in Southeast Asia. As such, it will be invaluable to students, policy makers and commentators on the region.


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