The International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones argues that although terrorism in Southeast Asia is a serious problem, we need to keep it in perspective, as most Southeast Asians do, and make sure the tools we use to try to contain it help rather than hurt.

Garry Rodan analyses the nature and significance of different views on the relationship between economic and political liberalism by examining the meaning and purpose of transparency reform among neoliberals. He also assesses the implications of these transparency reforms for regimes in Southeast Asia.

Amitav Acharya analyses the major implications of terrorism and counter-terrorism post-September 11 for Asian security order, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia, which has been dubbed by the Bush administration as the 'second front' in the war on terror. He focuses on the growing place of terrorism in the national threat perceptions and the...

A consistent feature that connects terrorists of varying political motives and personality types is the existence of near universal feelings of anger, disempowerment, and frustration. Moreover, to the extent that the denial of human rights robs individuals of their dignity it constitutes a form of structural violence which threatens to intensify these feelings. It is...

America's remarkable military, economic and political power provided it with the opportunity to profoundly influence the development of the international system, but the precise way this has happened has owed a great deal to the efforts and ideas of a surprisingly small coterie of intellectuals, the inauguration of a political regime in Washington that was...