M any borderlands in Southeast Asia—in southern Thailand, East Timor, Papua New
Guinea, Sulawesi, Aceh, southern Philippines, Myanmar—have become violent. In the …

In South Asia, boundaries are blurred but borders are bona fide. Boundaries have been
blurred since geological time and so it has been culturally in the most recent times. Borders …

Its people were among the first of the economic tigers to emerge from the southern rim of
Asia. Moving toward democracy and mostly committed to free enterprise, they formed a …

This volume examines different ethnic configurations and conflict avoidance and resolution
in five different Southeast Asian countries.* Tin Maung Maung Than traces the history and …

Southeast Asia is home to more than 625 million people and around 15% of the world's
Muslim population. The region has faced the threat of terrorism for decades, but threats in …

[T] he idea does not fit the self-image and ambitions of the states in the region. South Asia's
constituent nation-states are modelled on the pre-Second–World-War nation-states of …

As an academic field in its own right, the topic of border studies is experiencing a revival in
university geography courses as well as in wider political commentary. Until recently, border …

BACKGROUND: Vladimir Lenin in his letter to the Communists of Turkestan in 1920 asked
them to investigate how many states should be there and what they should be named. 80 …

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and
religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations …

Second World War. The advent and spread of communism and the rise of anti-colonial
nationalisni has, in the main, wrought this change. In the post-Second World War period …