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.

While not having land borders offers Australia some degree of security from terrorism in general, the maritime nature of our strategic and geographic environment makes us particularly vulnerable to maritime terrorist attacks. Aldo Borgu provides an overview of the nature of terrorist threats in Australia's region and proposed reforms to present security arrangements.

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...

In this address to the Special Operations Command Senior Leadership Group on 8 September 2004, Aldo Borgu argues that although terrorism is an unpredictable form of warfare it is necessary to attempt to forecast the way it will unfold and the implications for Australia.

On 3 May 2004, the Attorney-General first used his new, executive power to proscribe the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as a 'terrorist organisation'. Seventeen groups have been proscribed as terrorist organisations under Australian law to date, but PIJ is the only one of those groups not also listed by the United Nations Security Council...