made even more critical today as the US struggles, once again, in Iraq and elsewhere, to comprehend why

expectations of market reform, democratic transition and social change are often overtaken by a metamorphosis of
reactionary interest or by a descent into chaotic and unconstrained systems of oligarchy.
This is a book not only for researchers and students but for anyone interested in political economy, political
sociology, development studies, and Southeast Asian politics and society.

Richard Robison is Professor of Political economy at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The
Netherlands and was formerly Director of the Australian Research Council’s Special Centre for the Study of
Political and Economic Change in Asia at Murdoch University, Australia.

Vedi R. Hadiz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and
was previously Research Fellow at the Asia Research Center, Murdoch University, Australia.
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