About the Author

Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He is the editor of Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Stanford, 2003), Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia (Stanford, 2001), Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford, 1998), and Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford, 1995).

Reviews

"This outstanding book will have a lasting impact on the study of civil-military relations and of the comparative politics of Asia. It is by far the best collection of case studies of civil-military relations I have read, for any part of the world." - Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution