RSIS Working Papers
The RSIS is an autonomous research institute which conducts research on security, strategic and international issues, with a particular focus on issues related to the security and stability of the Asia-Pacific region. Through its Working Paper series, the institute seeks to share its research findings with the strategic studies and defense policy communities. The focus of research is on issues relating to the security and stability of the Asia-Pacific region and their implications for Singapore and other countries in the region.
© S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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- Beyond its Mineral/Natural Resources: Why Africa Matters to the World
- The Strategy of Coercive Isolation in US Security Policy
- Enhancing Global and Regional Mechanisms for Conflict Management and Resolution
- The Rising Chorus of Chinese Exceptionalism
- Security Identity, Policymaking Regime and Japanese Security Policy Development
- The Eurozone Crisis and Its Impact on Asia
- Strengthening Economic Linkages Between South Asia and East Asia
- Bangladesh-India Relations: Sheikh Hasina's India-Positive Policy Approach
- Securing the State: National Security in Contemporary Times
- Malaysia's US Policy under Najib: Ambivalence no More?
- ASEAN’s Centrality in a Rising Asia
- Governing for the Future: What Governments Can Do
- By Invitation, Mostly: The International Politics of the US Security Presence, China, and the South China Sea
- China's Evolving Fishing Industry: Implications for Regional and Global Maritime Security
- Dividing the Korean Peninsula: The Rhetoric of the George W Bush Administration
- Malaysia's China Policy in the Post-Mahathir Era: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation
- Role of Intelligence in International Crisis Management
- The Forum Betawi Rempug (FBR) of Jakarta
- The Influence of Domestic Politics on Philippine Foreign Policy
- China’s Economic Restructuring
- Chinese Debates of South China Sea Policy
- The Evolving Multi-layered Global Financial Safety Net
- Reflections on Defence Security in East Asia
- Indonesia's Democratic Politics and Foreign Policy-Making
- Getting from Here to There: Stitching Together Goods Agreements in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The Process of ASEAN’s Institutional Consolidation in 1968-1976
- How Indonesia Sees ASEAN and the World
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations: Overview and Prospects
- The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the Landscape of Indonesian Islamist Politics: Cadre-Training as Mode of Preventive Radicalisation?
- Street, Shrine, Square and Soccer Pitch: Comparative Protest Spaces in Asia and the Middle East
- Dealing with the "North Korea Dilemma"
- Monetary Integration in ASEAN+3
- Assessing 12-year Military Reform in Indonesia
- Rising Power...To Do What?
- Rising From Within
- Winds of Change in Sarawak Politics?
- Structures for Strategy
- What Happened to the Smiling Face of Indonesian Islam?
- Emerging Powers and Cooperative Security in Asia
- Recent Developments in the South China Sea
- Darul Uloom Deoband
- China's Military Build-Up in the Early Twenty-First Century
- ASEAN Institutionalisation
- Transforming the Military
- Evolving Global Economic Architecture
- The Aceh-based Militant Network
- Mapping the Religious and Secular Parties in South Sulawesi and Tanah Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Japan-Korea Relations and the Tokdo/Takeshima Dispute
- A Response to Fourth Generation Warfare
- India's Emerging Land Warfare Doctrines and Capabilities
- Japan's New Security Imperative: The Function of Globalization
- The Asian and Global Financial Crises
- Enabling Security for the 21st Century
- From Empire to the War on Terror
- Asia Rising and the Maritime Decline of the West
- Swords to Ploughshares: China's Defence-Conversion Policy
- Future of US Power: Is China Going to Eclipse the United States?
- "Muscular" versus "Liberal" Secularism and the Religious Fundamentalist Challenge in Singapore
- Reform of the International Financial Architecture
- China's Soft Power in South Asia
- Do Stated Goals Matter? Regional Institutions in East Asia and the Dynamic of Unstated Goals
- Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Regime in East Asian Waters
- Indian Naval Effectiveness for National Growth
- The Domestic Political Origins of Global Financial Standards
- The Role of the Five Power Defence Arrangements in the Southeast Asian Security Architecture
- Jemaah Islamiyah: Of Kin and Kind
- Asian Regionalism and US Policy
- The Korean Peninsula in China's Grand Strategy
- The Arrival and Spread of the Tablighi Jama'at in West Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia
- How Geography Makes Democracy Work
- The ASEAN Regional Forum and Preventative Diplomacy
- Informal Caucuses Within the WTO
- Converging Peril: Climate Change and Conflict in the Southern Philippines
- Different Lenses on the Future
- US Foreign Policy and Southeast Asia
- Islamist Party, Electoral Politics and Da'wa Mobilization among Youth
- The Changing Power Distribution in the South China Sea
- The Philippines as an Archipelago and Maritime Nation
- Human Trafficking in Cambodia
- Livelihood Strategies Amongst Indigenous Peoples in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, Cambodia
- China and Asian Regionalism
- The Capacities of Coast Guards to Deal with Maritime Challenges in Southeast Asia
- The Perils of Consensus
- Significance of Abu Dujana and Zarkasih's Verdict
- The Spread of the Tablighi Jama'at Across Western, Central and Eastern Java and the Role ot the Indian Muslim Diaspora
- The Tablighi Jama'at Movement in the Southern Provinces of Thailand Today: Networks and Modalities
- The Implementation of Vietnam-China Land Border Treaty
- Islamizing Formal Education
- Reviving the Caliphate in the Nusantara
- Indonesia's Salafist Sufis
- The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Malaysia
- Beibu Gulf: Emerging Sub-regional Integration between China and ASEAN
- The Internet in Indonesia
- Singapore's Sovereign Wealth Funds
- Soft Power in Chinese Discourse: Popularity and Prospect
- A Merlion at the Edge of an Afrasian Sea: Singapore's Strategic Involvement in the Indian Ocean
- The Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) of Malaysia: Communitarianism Across Borders
- The Securitization of Human Trafficking in Indonesia
- Spoilers, Partners and Pawns: Military Organizational Behaviour and Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia
- Interpreting Islam On Plural Society
- Roots of Radical Sunni Traditionalism
- Sino-US Competition in Strategic Arms
- Sovereignty In ASEAN and The Problem of Maritime Cooperation in the South China Sea
- Thai-Chinese Relations: Security and Strategic Partnership
- The Use of SOLAS Ship Security Alert Systems
- Outlook for Malaysia's 12th General Elections
- Thinking the Unthinkable: The Modernization and Reform of Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia
- The Islamic Opposition in Malaysia
- The Defence Industry in the Post-Transformational World
- Security in the South China Sea
- The Asian Financial Crisis and ASEAN's Concept of Security
- US Primacy, Eurasia's New Strategic Landscape, and the Emerging Asian Order
- Japan's Economic Diplomacy Towards East Asia
- New Security Developments in the Asia Pacific
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Indian Ocean and the Maritime Balance of Power in Historical Perspective
- Islamic Militancy, Sharia, and Democratic: Consolidation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
- Sulawesi: Aspirations of Local Muslims
- Comprehensive Maritime Domain Awareness
- Globalization: Implications of and for the Modern / Post-Modern Navies of the Asia Pacific
- Ngruki Revisited: Modernity and its Discontents at the Pondok Pesantren al-Mukmin of Ngruki, Surakarta
- Contextualizing Political Islam for Minority Muslims
- Indonesia's Direct Local Elections
- War As They Knew It: Revolutionary War and Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia
- The PLA’s Role in China’s Regional Security Strategy
- China’s Proactive Engagement in Asia
- The Ulama in Pakistani Politics
- Comprehensive Security and Resilience in Southeast Asia
- Mission Not So Impossible: The AMM and the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Aceh, 2005- 2006
- War, Peace or Neutrality: An Overview of Islamic Polity's Basis of Inter-State Relations
- The De-escalation of the Spratly Dispute in Sino-Southeast Asian Relations
- Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: The Afghan National Army
- Contested Capitalism: Financial Politics and Implications for China
- The China Syndrome: Chinese Military Modernization and the Rearming of Southeast Asia
- Thinking Ahead: Shi'ite Islam in Iraq and its Seminaries (hawzah 'ilmiyyah)
- Islam and Violence in Malaysia
- Towards a History of Malaysian Ulama
- Facets of Shi'ite Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Malaysia and Singapore
- Facets of Shi'ite Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Thailand and Indonesia
- The Many Faces of Political Islam
- The Terrorist Threat to Singapore's Land Transportation Infrastructure
- From Counter-Society to Counter-State: Jemaah Islamiyah According to PUPJI
- Voice of the Malayan Revolution: The Communist Party of Malaya's Struggle for Hearts and Minds in the 'Second Malayan Emergency' (1969-1975)
- Islam, State and Modernity: Muslim Political Discourse in Late 19th and Early 20th Century India
- Twelver Shi'ite Islam: Conceptual and Practical Aspects
- Rewriting Indonesian History
- Freedom and Control Networks in Military Environments
- UNCLOS and its Limitations as the Foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime
- Globalization and Military-Industrial Transformation in South Asia: An Historical Perspective
- Temporal Dominance: Military Transformation and the Time Dimension of Strategy
- Myanmar and the Argument for Engagement: A Clash of Contending Moralities?
- Changing Conflict Identities: The Case of the Southern Thailand Discord
- International Regime Building in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Cooperation against the Illicit Trafficking and Abuse of Drugs
- The Korean War June-October 1950: Inchon and Stalin in the "Trigger vs. Justification" Debate
- The LTTE's Online Network and its Implications for Regional Security
- The Incidence of Corruption in India
- Securitizing Border-Crossing: The Case of Marginalized Stateless Minorities in the Thai-Burma Borderlands
- Securitization of Illegal Migration of Bangladeshis to India
- Securitizing/Desecuritizing the Filipinos' 'Outward Migration Issue' in the Philippines' Relation with Other Asian Governments
- Non-Traditional Security Issues: Securitisation of Transnational Crime in Asia
- Food Security and the Threat From Within: Rice Policy Reforms in the Philippines
- Re-conceptualising the Military-Industrial Complex: A General Systems Theory Approach
- Bandung and the Political Economy of North-South Relations: Sowing the Seeds for Revisioning International Society
- The East Asian Experience: The Poverty of "Picking Winners"
- Africa and the Challenge of Globalization
- The Impact of RMA on Conventional Deterrence: A Theoretical Analysis
- Local Elections and Democracy in Indonesia: The Case of the Riau Archipelago
- Geopolitics, Grand Strategy and the Bush Doctrine
- Piracy in Southeast Asia: New Trends, Issues and Responses
- China's Political Commissars and Commanders: Trends and Dynamics
- Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: Strategic and Diplomatic Status Quo
- Autobiography, Politics and Ideology in Sayyid Qutb's Reading of the Qur'an
- Global Jihad, Sectarianism and the Madrassahs in Pakistan
- Great Powers and Southeast Asian Regional Security Strategies: Omni-Enmeshment, Balancing and Hierarchical Order
- How Bargaining Alters Outcomes: Bilateral Trade Negotiations and Bargaining Strategies
- Civil-Military Relationship and Reform in the Defence Industry
- The Security of Regional Sea Lanes
- On Being Religious: Patterns of Religious Commitment in Muslim Societies
- The State and Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies
- Multilateralism, Sovereignty and Normative Change in World Politics
- Towards Better Peace Processes: A Comparative Study of Attempts to Broker Peace with MNLF and GAM
- Deducing India's Grand Strategy of Regional Hegemony from Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
- Southeast Asian Maritime Security in the Age of Terror: Threats, Opportunity, and Charting the Course Forward
- Maritime Terrorism in Southeast Asia: A Risk Assessment
- The Indonesian Military as a Professional Organization: Criteria and Ramifications for Reform
- Malaysia and the United States: Rejecting Dominance, Embracing Engagement
- "Constructing" the Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist: A Preliminary Inquiry
- Examining the Defence Industrialization - Economic Growth Relationship: The Case of Singapore
- China in the Mekong River Basin: The Regional Security Implications of Resource Development on the Lancang Jiang
- The Shifting of Maritime Power and the Implications for Maritime Security in East Asia
- Singapore's Reaction to Rising China: Deep Engagement and Strategic Adjustment
- UAVs/UCAVs - Missions, Challenges, and Strategic Implications for Small and Medium Powers
- Technological Globalisation and Regional Security in East Asia
- Not Many Jobs Take a Whole Army: Special Operations Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs
- Outlook for Malaysia's 11th General Election
- Globalization and Non-Traditional Security Issues: A Study of Human and Drug Trafficking in East Asia
- Outlook on the Indonesian Parliamentary Election 2004
- Testing Alternative Responses to Power Preponderance
- Force Modernisation Trends in Southeast Asia
- Critical Mass: Weighing in on Force Transformation and Speed Kills Post-Operation Iraqi Freedom
- The Advent of the New Way of War: Theory and Practice of Effects Based Operations
- The Indo-Chinese Enlargement of ASEAN: Implications for Regional Economic Integration
- Pre-Emption and Prevention: An Ethical and Legal Critique of the Bush Doctrine and Anticipatory Use of Force in Defense of the State
- Revisiting Responses to Power Preponderance: Going Beyond the Balancing-Bandwagoning Dichotomy
- Fireball on the Water: Naval Force Protection-Projection, Coast Guarding, Customs Border Security & Multilateral Cooperation in Rolling Back the Global Waves of Terror...from the Sea
- American Unilateralism, Foreign Economic Policy and the Securitisation of Globalisation
- In Search of Suitable Positions in the Asia-Pacific: Negotiating the US-China Relationship and Regional Security
- Sovereignty and the Politics of Identity in International Relations
- Examining the Role of Foreign Assistance in Security Sector Reforms: The Indonesian Case
- The War on Terror and the Future of Indonesian Democracy
- Deconstructing Political Islam in Malaysia: UMNO's Response to PAS' Religio-Political Dialectic
- Seeking Security in the Dragon's Shadow: China and Southeast Asia in the Emerging Asian Order
- The WTO in 2003: Structural Shifts, State-of-Play and Prospects for the Doha Round
- Regionalisation of Peace in Asia: Experiences and Prospects of ASEAN, ARF and UN Partnership
- A UK Perspective on Defense Equipment Acquisition
- The Correlates of Nationalism In Beijing Public Opinion, 1998-2002
- Liquidity Support and the Financial Crisis: The Indonesian Experience
- The Securitization of Transnational Crime in ASEAN
- The Political Economy of FDI Location: Why don't Political Checks and Balances and Treaty Constraints Matter?
- Indonesia and the Washington Consensus
- Financial Liberalization and Prudential Regulation in East Asia: Still Perverse?
- Not yet All Aboard... But Already All at Sea over Container Security Initiative
- Hegemonic Constraints: The Implications of September 11 for American Power
- Islam and Society in Southeast Asia After September 11
- 11 September and China: Opportunities, Challenges and Warfighting
- Attempting Developmental Regionalism Through AFTA: The Domestic Politics-Domestic Capital Nexus
- Reconceptualizing the PLA Navy in Post-Mao China: Functions, Warfare, Arms, and Organization
- International Responses to Terrorism: The Limits and Possibilities of Legal Control of Terrorism by Regional Arrangement with particular Reference to ASEAN
- What Fear Hath Wrought: Missile Hysteria and the Writing of "America"
- Great Power Politics in Contemporary East Asia: Negotiating Multipolarity or Hegemony
- 911, American Praetorian Unilateralism and the Impact on State-Society Relations in Southeast Asia
- Understanding Financial Globalisation
- Democratisation in South Korea and Taiwan
- The Concept of Security Before and After September 11
- The Evolution of China's Maritime Combat
- Comprehensive Security: The South Asian Case
- Humanitarian Intervention and Peacekeeping as Issues for Asia-Pacific Security
- Multilateralism, Neo-liberalism and Security in Asia: The Role of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum
- Asian Developing Countries and the Next Round of WTO Negotiations
- Human Security: East Versus West?
- Crisis and Transformation: ASEAN and the New Era
- Natural Resource Management and Environmental Security in Southeast Asia: Case Study of Clean Water Supplies in Singapore
- Burma: Protracted Conflict, Governance and Non-Traditional Security Issues
- Framework for Autonomy in Southeast Asia's Plural Societies
- Globalization and its Implications for Southeast Asian Security: A Vietnamese Perspective
- Human Security: Discourse, State Craft, Emancipation
- Explaining Indonesia's Relations with Singapore During the New Order Period
- Framing "South Asia": Whose Imagined Region?
- Asia-Pacific Diplomacies: Reading Discontinuity in Late-Modern Diplomatic Practice
- Taiwan's Future: Mongolia or Tibet?
- "Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo" as Justified, Executed and Mediated by NATO: Strategic Lessons for Singapore
- Continuity and Change in Malaysian Politics: Assessing the Buildup to the 1999-2000 General Elections
- The South China Sea Dispute Re-visited
- Recording Asia: "Cooperative Security" or Concert of Powers?
- Multilateral Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Prospects and Possibilities
- Vietnam-China Relations Since the End of the Cold War
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