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Asia´s rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual assessments of separatist struggles and prospects for conflict resolution in eight countries of Asia.

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Introduction: Ethnic Separatism: An Introduction; R.Wirsing PART I: SOUTH EAST ASIA Indonesia: Letting Go to Hold On; A.Smith Thailand: Southern Discomfort: Separatist Conflict in the Kingdom of Thailand; I.Storey Myanmar/Burma: Resolving the Burmese Imbroglio: A Multilateral Solution?; M.Malik PART II: SOUTH ASIA Pakistan: Ethnic Separatism in Balochistan: Tribal Turbulence on the Energy Corridor; R.Wirsing India: Nation and the Spirals of Insecurity: How the State Responds to Ethnic Separatism in India´s Northeast; S.K.Das India& Pakistan: Dangerous Place: Kashmiri Separatism in a Disputed Territory; R.Wirsing Sri Lanka: Managing Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Going Beyond LTTE; S.Akhtar PART III: EAST ASIA China: Retribution& Retaliation: Uyghur Separatism& Chinese Security in Xinjiang; E.Davis China: Tibet: At the Crossroads of Ethnic Nationalism& Geopolitical Realism; P.Smith PART IV: PACIFIC ISLANDS Papua New Guinea: The Melting Pot: Ethnicity, Identity& Separatism in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea; J.Rolfe Conclusion: Ethnic Separatism in Geopolitical Perspective; E.Ahrari

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SHAHEEN AKHTAR Research Fellow, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan SAMIR KUMAR DAS Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, India ELIZABETH VAN WIE DAVIS. Director and Professor of Liberal Arts at the Colorado School of Mines, USA MOHAN MALIK Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, USA JIM ROLFE. Dr Rolfe is a senior fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies, New Zealand ANTHONY L. SMITH Associate Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore PAUL J. SMITH Associate Professor, Naval War College in Rhode Island, USA IAN STOREY Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore

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