ASEAN and the European Union

Panorama 1/2006

Published as a part of the Regional Programme of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Southeast Asia Office, Panorama is a journal on Southeast Asian and European Affairs. The present edition is a special issue focusing on the relations between East Asia and the European Union.

Planmäßiger Sieg der Regierungspartei PAP

Parlamentswahlen in Singapur

Alles bleibt beim Alten im südostasiatischen Stadtstaat: Die Singapurer haben die People’s Action Party (PAP) nach 41-jähriger Regierungszeit abermals mit einer soliden Mehrheit im Amt bestätigt. Das Wahlergebnis wird zum einen als ein Indikator für die überwiegende Zufriedenheit der Bevölkerung mit der Regierung gewertet und zum anderen als Wunsch nach einer größeren Kontrollfunktion der Opposition, die ihren Stimmenanteil erhöhen konnte.

Security Management in Asian Cities

City vulnerabilities, health hazards, natural calamities, ethno-religious conflicts and terrorism are the most pressing issues in our contemporary societies. Due to the multitude of security challenges faced by various countries, security management has increasingly become one of the key tasks for national and local governments around the globe. Security Management in Asian Cities compiles all of the papers contributed at the 12th Annual ESEA conference, which reviewed the practices and experiences in the context of each country: Cambodia, Indonesian, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. At this event, H.E. Andreas Michaelis, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Singapore, shared his remarks on a holistic concept of security from a German point of view.

East Asia and Latin America – The Encounter of two Continents

Improvements in transport, telecommunications and information technologies are ushering in the age of Cross Pacific Trade. With calls by member countries to link APEC objectives with those discussed at the January 2004 Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC), KAS subsequently organised a Workshop, titled "The Encounter of Two Continents" in Singapore.This publication contains papers presented at the Workshop, covering topics such as the growing interdependency of East and Southeast Asia and Latin America, inter-country trade and SME relations, potential academic and cultural exchanges, and improvement of regional bilateral ties.

Promoting and Strengthening the Rule of Law through Constitutional Jurisdiction

Cooperation, exchange of experience and dialogue on the level of Constitutional Courts Justices within Asia, and also between Asia and Europe, are important aspects towards the strengthening of Constitutional Jurisdiction.This publication is a collection of papers presented during the Second Regional Seminar of Asian Constitutional Court Judges held in Bangkok, Thailand. The contributors to this volume include Justices, Legal Experts and Members of Constitutional Jurisdiction bodies in Cambodia, Mongolia, Korea, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Prof. Dr. Ernst Benda, Former President of the German Federal Constitutional Court, is featured with a special contribution on "Conflicts between National and Supranational Courts: The European Experience".

Parliaments and Political Change in Asia

This study of the national parliaments of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand is inspired by four major theoretical discourses: Neo-institutionalism, parliamentarianism versus presidentialism, majoritarian versus consensus democracy, and transition theory. The book examines the specific role of parliaments in political decision-making, regime change, democratization, and consolidation of democracy in a comparative perspective. It argues that parliaments play a greater part in the political decision-making than is often asserted and that there is no cogent causal relationship between parliamentary performance and system of government.The study was commissioned and financed by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Economic and Non-Traditional Security Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

Jörn Dosch; Colin Dürkop (Editors), et al: These 14 referenced papers are selected from those given at the 2004 Hanoi Conference which brought together academics and practitioners from the Greater Mekong Subregion and from concerned institutions in Germany and UK. The pattern and potential of actual and envisaged cooperative actions of the six GMS states are explored. Much often-inaccessible data relating to the GMS with its 245 million population and 2.3 million km² area is made available.

Young Leaders' Forum

Vision Asia: Imagine ... 2015

Young Leaders from all over Asia discussed about future aspects of Asia in politics, economics, media, arts and culture. Two days of highly qualified lectures, e.g. from His Excellency Tan Sri Musa Hitam, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, on the political future of this region, and intense discussions casting a light on the expectations, hopes and fears of Young Leaders for their respective countries and thus, the region are summarized in this book.Das Booklet steht auch als zur Verfügung.

Islam and Democracy

The Southeast Asian Experience