Southeast Asia: Tradition And Modernity In The Contemporary World, Second Edition

Linking contemporary Southeast Asia with its past, this text analyzes the ways neotraditional values have begun to shape social and political attitudes, practices, and structures. Donald McCloud shows how this neotraditional resurgence is being used to define an independent path to modernity markedly at odds with the dominant Western paradigm of development. Focusing on Southeast Asia's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the global environment, this volume traces the evolution of a unique and dynamic region.

Donald G. McCloud is senior associate director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA).