Reorganising Power in Indonesia - The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Paperback, New)

This text confronts the fundamental paradox of economic and political transformations in which the advance of global markets and the collapse of old centralised authoritarian regimes have been accompanied by the widespread and successful reorganisation of profoundly illiberal and often predatory forms of power relations. Encompassing the most important political economic and political developments in Indonesia over the last 40 years, the book sheds new light on the Soeharto regime and the transition to a post-Soeharto era. It is a book about the failed state and the reorganisation of entrenched political interests in the face of economic and political crisis. This book should be of value to anyone studying South East Asia / South East Asian politics and should appeal to readers interested in political economy, political sociology and development studies.