Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6188-7
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: Constitutionalism in Asia

This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.

Starting with the linked ideas of localism and subsidiarity, the argument is that these states have used various forms of subsidiarity for dealing with ethnic and religious pluralism and the social diversity for which Southeast Asia is especially noted. Territorial governance mechanisms discussed range from decentralisation to special regional autonomy, federalism, and local government, including village autonomy. A silent revolution has occurred in which our view of these states as highly centralised 'developmental states' is in need of serious modification. Southeast Asia, the book argues, presents a high degree of originality in the framing of territorial governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Sense of Place

Part I: General Issues
1. The Project
2. Constitution

Part II: Case Studies
3. Indonesia
4. Malaysia
5. Myanmar
6. The Philippines
7. Thailand

Part III: Special Regional Autonomy
8. Autonomy and the Demand for a Homeland
9. Regional Autonomy I: Aceh and Papua

10. Regional Autonomy II: Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, Muslim Mindanao
11. Regional Autonomy III: Sabah and Sarawak

Part IV: Conclusions
12. Territorial Governance, Southeast Asia, and Innovation in Public Law

Über Autor(innen)

Harding, Andrew
Andrew Harding is Visiting Research Professor at the National University of Singapore, Professor of Law at the University of Reading Malaysia, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He is a founding editor of the Hart Publishing book series, Constitutional Systems of World.