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Two of ASEAN’s most durable authoritarian democracies (or is it democratic authoritarianism) come under scrutiny at the Australian National University this month.

A colourful parade of some 100 people marched through Hanoi on 5th August, waving flags, riding decorated bicycles, and chanting “We support same-sex marriage” in Vietnam’s first ever police-sanctioned Gay Pride event.

The state has become a very important source of income, but state expenditure has done little to produce more productive forms of economic activity.

A new mode of governing is transforming state formation, state-society relations, political organisation and civil society throughout Southeast Asia.