Bücher veröffentlicht von ISEAS

Combines the disciplines of economics, finance, sociology and politics to analyse the causes, consequences and challenges of the financial crisis of 2007-2009. It proposes that the causes of the crisis should be understood at three inter-related levels: theory and ideology; financial industry practices and malpractices; and structural imbalances in the international economy.

This study examines the dynamics of conflict that have caused internal wars to become so uniquely entrenched in Burma, and identifies the five major cycles of conflict that have seen the national government transform.

Explores maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. This book highlights causative factors of piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is a thinkable option.

What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the modern global economy, and would use a crude nuclear explosive device or a radiological bomb to do so.