Power of Ideas: Intellectual Input and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia. These 18 separately referenced and substantial specialists' essays describe and discuss some of the continuing discourse and intellectual development which has arisen in East and Southeast Asia since the Asian Financial Crisis of the mid-1990s. This volume examines political change in the region by looking at the ideas and visions behind the reform initiatives and the people who put them in motion. Many examples are explored in their national contexts. Indexed.