ABSTRACT
Reaching beyond the confines of Southeast Asia, this chapter attempts to place civil-m ilitary relations of the region into a larger context. It simultaneously attempts to lead the reader from the case studies, categories, and statistics of earlier chapters into the more ambitious and abstract exercises of theorizing and hypothesis-testing. The author hopes to illustrate how information about Asian nations can be combined with concepts, theories, and hypotheses generated out of studies of other parts of the world, both to enrich the study of Southeast Asian civil-m ilitary rela tions and to stimulate comparisons between developing nations of other geographic regions.
