Research Fellow
Dr. Arabinda Acharya

Education

Research Interests

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Selected Publications:

Books: Sole Authorship

1. Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes, (Routledge, 2009)

Books: Co-authored

1. The Terrorist Threat in Southern Thailand: Jihad or Quest for Justice, (Potomac Books Inc, July 2012)
2. Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
3. Conflict and Terrorism in Southern Thailand, ( Singapore: Marshall Cavandish Academic, 2005)

Book Chapters ((Peer Reviewed)

1. “Maritime Terrorist Threat in Southeast Asia,” in Kwa Chong Guan and John. N. Skogan, eds, Maritime Security in Southeast Asia, ( London and New York: Routledge, 2007)
2. “Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground,” in Michelle Innes Ed, Denial of Sanctuary, Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens, (Praeger, 2007)
3. “Cooperation Issues in the Global War on Terror,” in Peter Catona, Michael Intriligator and John Sullivan, eds., Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-terrorism Network, ( London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
4. “Thailand,” in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, ( New York, London: Rutledge, 2006) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
5. “Indonesia,” in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, ( New York, London: Rutledge, 2006)
6. “Kashmir in the International System,” in W. Pal Singh Sidhu et al. Eds., Kashmir New Voices, New Approaches, ( London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006) (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
7. “The Terrorist Training Camps of Al Qaeda,” in JF Forest, ed., The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes, James. ( Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
8. “Promoting Human Security in South Asia Through Multilateral Cooperation,” in Dipankar Banerjee, ed., SAARC in the 21 st Century: Towards a Cooperative Future, ( New Delhi, India Research Press, 2002)

 

Book Chapters

1. “Regional Organizations and Conflict Resolution,” Changing Nature of Conflict: Trends and Responses. ( New Delhi: CLAW, 2011)
2. “Terrorist Financing in Southeast Asia,” in Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia in the Coming Decade, ( Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Macmillan India, 2009)
3. “Regional Responses in Southeast Asia,” in Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia in the Coming Decade, ( Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Macmillan India, 2009)
4. “Terrorist Groups with Maritime Terrorist Capabilities,” in V.R. Raghavan and W. Lawrence Prabhakar, eds., Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Critical Issues in Debate, ( New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008)
5. “Asymmetric Threats to Good Order at Sea,” in V.R. Raghavan and W. Lawrence Prabhakar, eds., Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Critical Issues in Debate, ( New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008)
6. “Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in Comparative Perspective,” in Frank G. Shanty and P.P. Mishra, eds., Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, ( Santa Barbara, Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO, 2007)
7. “Threats to Good Order,” in Ravi Chopra and D. Chakraborty eds., Maritime Dimensions of a New World Order, ( New Delhi: National Maritime Foundation 2007)
8. “Terrorism and Regional Security: Deconstructing the Global War on Terror in Asia,” Global Terrorism: Genesis, Implications, Remedial and Counter Measures, ( Islamabad: The Institute of Regional Studies, 2006)
9. “India’s Role in Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka,” in M.B. Munshi Ed. The India Doctrine, (Dhaka: Bangladesh Research Forum, 2006)
10. “The Global Terror Threat: Are We Winning or Losing?” Pacifying the Pacific: Confronting the Challenges, ( Kuala Lumpur, ISIS, 2004)
11. “Human Security in Asia: Conceptual Ambiguities and Common Understandings,” Man and Development, (Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development) vol. XXIV No.4, (December 2002)

 

Journals (Peer Reviewed)

1. “Taking the Battle to the Sea: Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in the South China Sea Region,” European-Asian Journal of Law and Governance (October 2011)
2. India ’s State of Armed Violence: Assessing the Human Cost and Political Priorities; Issue Brief No.1, Small Arms Survey, June 2011
3. “Nizam la Tanzim (System not Organization): Do Organizations Matter in Terrorism Today? A Study of November 2008 Mumbai Attacks,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 34:1 (January 2011)
4. “Transshipment and Trade Based Money Laundering,” Journal of Money Laundering Control, 14:1 (January 2011)
5. “Small Amounts for Big Bangs: Rethinking Responses to Low-cost Terrorism,” Journal of Money Laundering Control, 12.3, (2009)
6. “Making Money in the Mayhem: Funding Taliban Insurrection in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan ,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 32:2 (January 2009)
7. “The Myth of the Second Front: Localizing the ‘War on Terror’ in Southeast Asia,” Washington Quarterly, (Autumn 2007)
8. “The Bali Bombings: Impact on Indonesia and Southeast Asia,” Occasional Research Series II, (Islamism in Southeast Asia), No. 2, Centre for Eurasian Policy, (Hudson Institute, 2006)
9. “ India and Southeast Asia in the Age of Terror: Building Partnerships for Peace,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2006)
10. “Countering the Global Islamist Terrorist Threat,” The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, (Spring 2006)
11. “Targeting Islamist Terrorism in Asia Pacific: An Unending War,” Asia Pacific Review, Vol. II, No. 2, (November 2004)
12. “Engaging China In South Asia,” Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3, (Summer 2001)
13. “Shadow Over the Subcontinent: South Asia Goes Nuclear- a Look at Security,” George Town Journal of International Affairs; Vol. II, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2001)
14. “South Asia in the Nuclear Era,” Asian Defence and Diplomacy ( Kuala Lumpur), Vol. 7, No. 12, (December 2000)
15. “Human Security In Asia Pacific: Puzzle, Panacea or Peril?” CANCAPS Bulletin No. 27, (November 2000)

 

Project-based publications

1. Project Name: Indian Armed Violence Assessment (IAVA) Project Agency: Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland - “Comparing Causes of Violent Injury and Death: Terrorism and Armed Conflict vs. Crime, Domestic Violence, Suicide and Accidents,” Indian Armed Violence Assessment , ( Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey,  2010)

 

Book Reviews

1. D.R. Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas, eds., Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century, ( New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), for Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 24, no. 3, (December 2002)
2. Frederic Grare and Amitabh Mattoo, eds., INDIA AND ASEAN:  The Politics of India's Look East Policy.   ( New Delhi:  Manohar Publishers & Distributors.  2001), for Pacific Affairs, vol. 75, no.3, (Fall 2002)