by lundry | Dec 1, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Southeast Asia
By Chris Lundry Various news organizations reported this week that both Vietnam and the Philippines are refusing to stamp new Chinese passports with a map of China’s claim to the entire South China Sea (VOA report here). India has joined the fray as well, angered...
by Nicholas Cunningham | Aug 14, 2012 | Monitor
Cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63), front, and destroyer USS Sampson, back. Photo credit: U.S. Navy Last month, the Chinese government decided to upgrade the status of a tiny city on a disputed island in the South China Sea and install a military garrison, sparking a...
by casey.marye | Aug 9, 2012 | Monitor
I have been fascinated by some of the findings of a massive new Pew Research Center global public opinion survey of Muslims in 39 countries in every region of the world. Pew conducted 38,000 face-to-face interviews in more than 80 languages between 2008 and 2012. What...
by editor | May 21, 2012 | White Papers
by Inayah Rohmaniyah & Mark Woodward In public discourse about Islam, “Wahhabi” is usually a synonym for intolerance, misogyny, and extremism. Though this is sometimes true it is an over-generalization. In this paper we contrast two very different forms of Wahhabi...
by admin | Jul 7, 2011 | White Papers
by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin, Inaya Rohmaniyah, Chris Lundry With the commencement of Indonesia‟s transition to democracy, following 32 years of rule by the military dictator Suharto, political space has opened for dozens of political parties to form and regularly...
