...Michael Leifer Abstract A critical review of four recent works which examine the role of the United States in Southeast Asia; its policies, goals and interrelationships with the several successor states of French Indochina: Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Copyright © The Association...

...Michael Leifer Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard . By Michael Haas . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1991 . xiii, 385 pp. $55.00. Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact . By Michael Haas . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1991...

...Michael Leifer The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution Since 1945 . By David P. Chandler . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1991 . xiii, 396 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 977...

...Michael Leifer Southeast Asia in International Politics, 1941–1956 . By Evelyn Colbert . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1977 . 372 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 207 Southeast Asia...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Editor's Note Our August 1993 issue (JAS 52.3:684) carried an exchange of letters about Michael Leifer's review in our February issue (JAS 52.1:216-18) of two recent books by Michael Haas. At issue were Leifer's and Haas's...

...Kit G. Machado Dilemmas of Statehood in Southeast Asia . By Michael Leifer . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1972 . xi, 161 pp. Notes, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 328 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in the problems...

...Thomas J. Bellows Singapore's Foreign Policy: Coping with Vulnerability . By Michael Leifer . Politics in Asia Series. London : Routledge , 2000 . xiv, 177 pp. $124.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E...

...John James MacDougall Malacca, Singapore, and Indonesia . By Michael Leifer Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands : Sijthoff & Noordhoff (International Straits of the World, volume two), 1978 . xi, 217 pp. Maps, Notes, Appendixes, Index. $33.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... of general Philippine ethnography. BEN J. WALLACE Southern Methodist University Indonesia's Foreign Policy. By MICHAEL LIEFER. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. xx, 198 pp. Notes, Index. $28.50 (cloth). Michael Leifer has written a thorough, detailed survey of Indonesian foreign policy from 1945 to 1982...

... LEIFER. Politics in Asia Series. London: Routledge, 2000. xiv, 177 pp. $124.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). This book is one of the Politics in Asia Series, a series that was edited by the late Michael Leifer. Professor Leifer died of cancer in March 2001. In his obituary, the Guardian described him...

... exacerbating conflict; and 6/ problems of acquiring legitimacy due to paucity of common symbols fostering identity with government and difficulties in meeting material needs of the population. A chapter is devoted to the relationship between each factor cited and political integration. Leifer makes clear...

...David B. H. Denoon Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia . By Michael Leifer . London and New York : Routledge Press , 1995 . xxi, 271 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1068 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES amendments...

...). Michael Leifer has written a thorough, detailed survey of Indonesian foreign policy from 1945 to 1982. It is comprised of seven chapters, the first two of which deal with the revolutionary era and the consolidation of independence. Chapters 3 and 4, focusing on the conclusion of the West Irian dispute...

...Roger K. Paget Nationalism, Revolution and Evolution in South-East Asia . Edited by Michael Leifer . Zug : Inter Documentation Company , 1970 . Hull Monographs on SouthEast Asia No. 2. iv, 175 pp. Sw.F.28.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

... Population Institute Honolulu Dilemmas of Statehood in Southeast Asia. BY MICHAEL LEIFER. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1972. xi, 161 pp. Notes, Index. $6.00. This is a brief survey of Southeast Asian politics for non-specialists. Three-quarters of it is devoted to contemporary domestic...

... Malacca, Singapore, and Indonesia. By MICHAEL LEIFER. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Sijthoff & Noordhoff (International Straits of the World, volume two), 1978. xi,2i7pp. Maps, Notes, Appendixes, Index. $3350. One of a series of studies of the international straits of the world commissioned...

... for several countries, Breese and his collaborators are to be congratulated for pro- viding an invaluable guide to a rich, varied, and rapidly growing literature. ALAN HOWARD East-West Population Institute Honolulu Dilemmas of Statehood in Southeast Asia. BY MICHAEL LEIFER. Vancouver: University of British...

... adversaries and their surrogates, allies, and friends, and is confined to setting forth positions rather than analysis of the meaning of the interplay. The final essay on the Cambodian conflict is by Michael Leifer of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Leifer confines himself...

... on the Municipality of Manila], vol. 1), 1983 . xvi, 367 pp. List of Abbreviations, Tables, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 196 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Solid, fact-filled surveys such as this one are useful, but they are not much fun to read. Leifer, from his vantage...

... of South-East Asia. By MICHAEL LEIFER. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1995. xxi, 271 pp. $65.00. This is a truly exceptional reference volume. Michael Leifer has taken his extensive knowledge of Southeast Asia and used it to create a compact, yet remarkably detailed and informative work...