In this book, Aljunied analyses how ASEAN and its key maritime member states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia govern environmental issues through strategic engagements with social forces.

In the new millennium, ASEAN states' power is enhanced and solidified through regulatory statehood, strategic renewal and moral ideology in order to subdue civil resistance while managing non-traditional security threats. Through a comparative analysis of Southeast Asia, this book highlights how state-capitalist-society relations are shaped by politics of scale and social conflict in order to reinforce authoritarianism and intensify capitalism development agendas at the expense of environmental preservation.

With this, the book explores how civil society challenge and are suppressed by state power at national and regional platforms. A pioneering scholarly work, this book represents a major contribution to the intersection between political science, environmental governance and Southeast Asian Studies by offering rich theoretical and empirical insights into the dynamics of state-capitalist-society relations in an era of global environmental crisis.

Covers the effects that environmental governance has on state-society relations Focuses on the Politics of Environmental Governance in Maritime Southeast Asian countries Analyses how and why Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian states govern their respective environments

Autorentext

Dr. Syed Mohammed Ad'ha Aljunied is the author of Securitising Singapore: State Power and Global Threats Management (2020) and social scientist lecturing in Political Science, International Relations, National Security, Strategic Studies and Security Studies at Curtin University in Australia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Globalisation, Strategic Relations and Governance.- Chapter 2: State-Society Strategic Relations in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 3: Dominating Development in Singapore.- Chapter 4: Green Politics in Malaysia.- Chapter 5: Forest Governance in Indonesia.- Chapter 6: Rescaling Statehood and Social Conflicts in ASEAN.