Table of contents
1 Introduction......................................................................4
2 Cultural conflicts as conflicts treating culture as
the disputed issue ...........................................................5
3 From concept to empirical study. Data set and
measurement ..................................................................8
4 An empirical topography of cultural conflicts in
Asia since 1945...............................................................9
4.1 Relevance and forms of cultural conflict ...............................10
4.2 The conflicting actors ............................................................12
4.3 The focal-point countries in the regional conflict ...................16
5 Cultural conflicts in Southeast Asia...............................17
5.1 From the regional perspective...............................................17
5.2 The single-case perspective..................................................20
5.3 Counterexamples: conflict management at the
regional level and the mediation of cultural conflicts
in Malaysia and Singapore....................................................31
6 Conclusion.....................................................................35
7 Bibliography...................................................................37