The Dilemma of Corruption in Southeast Asia

In our modern societies, the issue of coruption has come to the limelight by attracting the attention of increasing numbers of social scientists from various backgrounds like economists, sociologists, political scientists and legislators. In addition to the individual and collective efforts made by social analysts, corruption has been a constant concern to regional as well as international organizations. This book is a thorough scrutiny of various sociological perspectives in order to assess the opportunities they provide in analyzing and ultimately checking corruption. The irrefutable shortage of theories together with the complexity of the phenomenon and its challenging theoretical and applied nature, as well as the need for a sociological viewpoint, have been the focal concerns of the first three chapters of this book. The second part of the book addresses the issue of high level corruption in the region of Southeast Asia in general and in Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia in particular. It is designed to investigate the problem of corruption at different periods of modern history of Southeast Asia taking into account all factors.