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Islam in Asia: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives One Hundred Eighth Congress Second Session July 14 2004

2004 · 66625 — Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. iii 63 p. Serial No. 108-134. From the Rockefeller College website: "Meredith Weiss joined the faculty of the Political Science department at the University at Albany in Fall 2008. Professor Weiss s research is in the field of comparative politics focusing on Southeast Asia especially Malaysia Singapore and Indonesia. Thematically she explores processes and patterns of political development and mobilization including such dimensions as electoral patterns and processes nationalism and ethnicity gender and sexuality Islamism new media and coalition-building in both civil society and electoral politics. Her primary current research projects explore on the one hand clientelist networks and patronage flows as part of electoral politics in Southeast Asia and on the other the intermeshing of feminist and queer discourses and identities in the region. Professor Weiss s first book Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia Stanford University Press 2005 examines political mobilization and efforts at political change in 20th century Malaysia and contrasts coalition-building and reform processes there and in Indonesia. Her second book Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible Mirror Sideshow Cornell SEAP/NUS Press 2011 situates student activism and its suppression as a part of postcolonial political development focusing on Malaysia and Singapore from the late colonial period until the present. Professor Weiss is also co-editor of four books: Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs with Saliha Hassan RoutledgeCurzon 2003 which analyzes the development of civil society in Malaysia focusing on several of the most important social movements there; Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia with Itty Abraham and Edward Newman United Nations University Press 2010 which explores the significance nature and roots of violent political contention in these two regions; Student Activism in Asia: Between Protest and Powerlessness with Edward Aspinall University of Minnesota Press Fall 2012 which compares campus-based movements across Northeast and Southeast Asia; and Homophobia Goes Global: States Movements and the Diffusion of Oppression with Michael Bosia University of Illinois Press forthcoming which explores an apparent global trend toward overtly political often state-sponsored homophobia. In addition Professor Weiss has published articles in Perspectives on Politics Democratization New Political Science Taiwan Journal of Democracy Journal of East Asian Studies Asian Survey Critical Asian Studies Journal of Contemporary Asia and other journals in addition to numerous book chapters. Professor Weiss is a former chair of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies AAS and member of the AAS Board of Directors. In the American Political Science Association APSA she currently serves on the Committee on Siting & Engagement as 2013 Program Chair and past Treasurer of the Caucus for a New Political Science and as Communications Officer of the Sexuality & Politics section; she is also past chair of the LGBT Caucus. She has testified for the House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific given briefings for the US Trade Representative and State Department and served as a State Department lecturer in Malaysia. Professor Weiss came to the University at Albany after three years at the East-West Center in Washington DC; prior to that she was on the faculty at DePaul University. She has held visiting fellowships also at the University of Sydney Universiti Malaya Georgetown University and the Australian National University and has been the recipient of Fulbright SSRC and other grants. Professor Weiss received her PhD and MA degrees from Yale University." From Wikipedia: "Husain Haqqani or Hussain Haqqani born July 1 1956 is the former Pakistan Ambassador to the. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback