Series

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.

Publishers: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Publications: Securing Energy Supply and Maritime Interests: Seeking Convergence
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies and Disaster Management in Bangladesh: The 2017 Rohingya Exodus
Comparing the Governance of Islam in Turkey and Indonesia: Diyanet and the Ministry of Religious Affairs
The South China Sea: Beijing´s Challenge to ASEAN and UNCLOS and the Necessity of a New Multi-Tiered Approach
Incident Prevention and Mitigation in the Asia Pacific Littorals: Framing, Expanding, and Adding to Cues
A Political Economy Analysis of the Southeast Asian Haze and Some Solutions
Waiting for Disruption: Undersea Autonomy and the Challenging Nature of Naval Innovation
The French Counter-Radicalisation Strategy
Economic and Strategic Dimensions of Mega-FTAs: A Perception Survey of Asian Opinion Leaders
Orienting ASEAN towards Its People: Enabling Engagement with Local NGOs
China and the Middle East: Venturing Into the Maelstrom
In Defence of Freedom of Speech and Against the Publication of Certain Cartoons
Russia´s Asia Pivot: Engaging the Russian Far East, China and Southeast Asia
Indonesia's Defence Diplomacy: Harnessing the Hedging Strategy Against Regional Uncertainties
Soccer vs Jihad: A Draw
Constructing National Identity: The Muscular Jew vs the Palestinian Underdog
China-Myanmar Relations since Naypyidaw's Political Transition
Brazil-China Relations
Soccer: Moulding the Middle East and North Africa
Fixing Global Finance: Unfinished Business
Prospect Theory and China's Crisis Behaviour Under Hu Jintao
The Cyber Extremism Orbital Pathways Model
China’s Global Agricultural Strategy
Examining China’s Assertiveness through the Eyes of Chinese IR Scholars
Assessing the Progress of AEC Projects: A New Approach
Anti-Imperialism in the 19th Century: A Contemporary Critique of the British Invasion of Java in 1811
John Anderson’s Data Mining Mission to Sumatra in 1823: When Method Creates the Object
Explaining the Trajectory of Golkar’s Splinters in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Fostering Pro-social Behaviour Online
America in Southeast Asia before the ‘Pivot’
The Revival of the Silk Roads (Land Connectivity) in Asia
Managing Tensions in the South China Sea
Economic Integration between South Asia and East Asia
Nuclear Deterrence: The Wohlstetter-Blackett Debate Re-visited
The Diaoyu/Senkaku Dispute in the Context of China-US-Japan Trilateral Dynamics
Old Society, New Youths: An Overview of Youth and Popular Participation in Post-Reformasi Indonesia
Popular Mandate and the Coming-of-Age of Social Media’s Presence in Indonesia Politics Post-Reformasi
Of Auxiliary Forces and Private Armies: Security Sector Governance (SSG) and Conflict Management in Manguindanao, Mindanao
Malaysia's Past Successes and Uncertain Future
South Korea’s Middle-Power Engagement Initiatives: Perspectives from Southeast Asia
Safety in Numbers: Problems of a Smaller US Nuclear Arsenal in Asia
Regional Cyber Security
Wahhabism vs Wahhabism: Qatar Challenges Saudi Arabia
Beyond its Mineral/Natural Resources: Why Africa Matters to the World
The Strategy of Coercive Isolation in US Security Policy
A New Containment-Policy: The Curbing of War and Violent Conflict in World Society
Enhancing Global and Regional Mechanisms for Conflict Management and Resolution
Iran: How Intelligence and Policy Intersect
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
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
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
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
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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