Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia

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This essay compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines. These strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents, and in turn, influenced their effectiveness. First-hand research is included as well as the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression, and the subsequent emergence of democracy.

This essay offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.

Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness.

He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression, and the subsequent emergence of democracy. Boudreau offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.