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Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ; This book brings something new in both dimension and detail to our understanding of Southeast Asia from the first to the fourteenth centuries. It puts Southeast Asia in the context of the international trade that stretched from Rome to China and draws upon a wide range of recent scholarship in history and the social sciences to redefine the role that this trade played in the evolution of the classical states of Southeast Asia. By examining the sources of Southeast Asia's classical era with the tools of modern economic history, the author shows that well-developed socioeconomic and political networks existed in Southeast Asia before significant foreign economic penetration took place. With the growth of interest in Southeast Asian commodities and the refocusing of the major East-West commercial routes through the region during the early centuries of the Christian era, internal conditions within Southeast Asia adjusted to accommodate increased external contacts. Hall takes the view that Southeast Asia's response to international trade was a reflection of preexisting patterns of trade and statecraft. In the forty years since Coede's monumental work The Indianized States of Southeast Asia was published, a great deal of archaeological and epigraphical work has been done and new interpretations advanced. By integrating new theoretical constructs, recent archaeological finds and interpretations, and his own informed reading and research, Kenneth R. Hall puts his historical narrative on a large canvas and treats areas not previously brought together for discussion along comparative lines. Like Coedes' work, his book will be important as a basic text for the teaching of early Southeast Asian history.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE BORDERLANDS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1-Delineation and Borders in Southeast Asia-James Clad -- The Perfectly Surveyed State -- Dimensions to a Bordered Southeast Asia -- Bordering an Archipel -- Frontier Life -- Tracking the "Disputes Trend" -- Elephants in the Parlor -- The Positive Side of the Ledger -- Southeast Asia "On the Map" -- Chapter 2-Archaeology, National Histories, and National Borders in Southeast Asia-Michael Wood -- Southeast Asia as a Crossroads -- The Influence of India -- Islamization -- The Chinese Footprint -- The European Impact -- Archaeology, Modern Borders, National Histories -- Majapahit -- Borobudur -- Angkor -- Alternate Histories in Waiting -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3-Historical Survey of Borders in Southeast Asia-David Lee -- European Origins of Southeast Asian Borders -- Pre-colonial Southeast Asia -- Imperial Frontiers of Southeast Asia -- Decolonization and the Emergence of Territorially Defined Nation-States -- Regionalism, Globalization, and the Consolidation of Southeast Asian Borders -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4-Borderlands, Terrorism, and Insurgency in Southeast Asia-Zachary Abuza -- Borderlands and Militancy -- The Regional Caliphate: Jemaah Islamiyah -- Insurgency and Terrorism in the Philippines: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayyaf Group -- The Insurgency in Southern Thailand: GMIP, BRN-C, and PULO -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5-The Maritime Borderlands: Terrorism, Piracy, Pollution, and Poaching in the South China Sea-David Rosenberg -- The Stakeholders -- Maritime Terrorism -- Piracy: Scope and Trends -- Transboundary Pollution: Lessons of the 1997 Smoke Haze Crisis -- Poaching -- Conclusion.

An analysis of the archaeological data available in recent years indicates the development of local maritime networks both in peninsular Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent by the middle of the first millennium B.C. By the second-first centuries B.C. these networks formed a part of the larger regional sailing circuit in the Bay of Bengal. Tangible indicators of this are carnelian and glass beads and bronze bowls with a high tin content. A demarcation of these networks is essential, before questions like the organization of trade or the channels through which religious ideology spread, can be explained.

Most of the major studies of terrorism in Southeast Asia emphasize international terrorist links and religious ideology, while more locally-embedded accounts draw attention to historical and political context. Despite this plurality in terrorism studies, flaws and omissions across four issues are common: the nature of terrorist links and information on them, Islam, the United States and the causes of terrorism. A substantial section of studies of terrorism are based on compromised information and substitute descriptive detail for analysis. They frequently depict Islam and anti-American views as incipiently threatening precursors to terrorism and underplay political grievances, particularly as they relate to the United States. Valuable work has drawn attention to local political contexts and grievances, and has begun to explore the ideas and perceptions of militant groups. However, most of the leading experts on terrorism in the region are engaged in academically unproductive attempts either to reconstruct the trail of terrorist activity on the basis of official information or to explain terrorist violence as the product of individual pathology. (Asia Pac Viewp/DÜI)