Governments and Politics of Southeast Asia

by George McTurnan Kahin (Editor), David A. Wilson, Josef Silverstein

First Edition.

796 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

George McTurnan Kahin was an American historian and political scientist. He was one of the leading experts on Southeast Asia and a critic of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

After completing his dissertation, which is still considered a classic on Indonesian history, Kahin became a faculty member at Cornell University. At Cornell, he became the director of its Southeast Asia Program and founded the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project.