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The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India
March 2016
The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography.
Asian Regionalism and US Policy: The Case for Creative Adaptation
March 2010
The United States belongs to various organizations and networks that encompass countries on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. The East Asia Summit (EAS) is not among them. Should the US try to...
Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
November 2008
Hard Choices offers a most rewarding perspective on how Southeast Asian states straddle the ongoing tensions among three rarely compatible goals—security, democracy, and regionalism.
ASEAN's ''Black Swans''
July 2008
It was meant to be a celebration not a showdown, let alone a showdown that the brutal junta in Burma (Myanmar) would win.
From State to Society? Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
September 2007
This essay was written in September 2007 in an interstitial if not pivotal moment: between the 40th birthday of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok on 8 August, and the...
Shocks of Recognition: Leifer, Realism and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
December 2006
In this important book many of Michael Leifer's students, colleagues and friends come together to explore the key themes of his work.
Curbing Asian Corruption: An Impossible Dream?
April 2006
The rise of Asia is regarded in most of the world as primarily an economic phenomenon.
One Nation Under God? History, Faith, and Identity in Indonesia
December 2005
This comparative exploration looks at religion and politics in the social dynamics of Southeast Asia's two most populous nations.
Security, Community, and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Analyzing ASEAN
August 2005
Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a pluralistic security community (PSC)? Does community cause security in Southeast Asia? In a PSC, member states are sovereign.
What Do the Blind-sided See? Reapproaching Regionalism in Southeast Asia
March 2005
The late Michael Leifer's association with an insecurity-focused realist approach to international affairs and his work on Southeast Asian regionalism inspire this question: How have the Asian...