Research Fellow
Dr. Arabinda Acharya

Education

Research Interests

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Selected Publications:

Books

1. Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes (Routledge, 2009 )
2. Conflict and Terrorism in Southern Thailand, ( Singapore: Marshall Cavandish Academic, 2005)
3. The Terrorist Threat in Southern Thailand: Jihad or Quest for Justice, (Potomac Books Inc, 2009)

 

Book Chapters

1. “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)
2. “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)
3. “The Global Terror Threat: Are We Winning or Losing?” Pacifying the Pacific: Confronting the Challenges, ( Kuala Lumpur, ISIS, 2004)
4. “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)
5. “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)
6. “ Thailand,” in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, ( New York, London: Rutledge, 2006)
7. “ Indonesia,” in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, ( New York, London: Rutledge, 2006)
8. “Kashmir in the International System,” in W. Pal Singh Sidhu et al. Eds., Kashmir New Voices, New Approaches, ( London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 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. “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)
11. “Threats to Good Order,” in Ravi Chopra and D. Chakraborty eds., Maritime Dimensions of a New World Order, ( New Delhi: National Maritime Foundation 2007)
12. “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)
13. “Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground,” in Michelle Innes Ed, Denial of Sanctuary, Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens, (Praeger, 2007)
14. “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)
15. “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)
16. “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)
17. “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 (March 2009)
18. “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 (March 2009),

 

Journals

1. “South Asia in the Nuclear Era,” Asian Defence and Diplomacy ( Kuala Lumpur), Vol. 7, No. 12, (December 2000)
2. “Human Security In Asia Pacific: Puzzle, Panacea or Peril?” CANCAPS Bulletin No. 27, (November 2000)
3. “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)
4. “Engaging China In South Asia,” Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3, (Summer 2001)
5. “Targeting Islamist Terrorism in Asia Pacific: An Unending War,” Asia Pacific Review, Vol. II, No. 2, (November 2004)
   
6. “Countering the Global Islamist Terrorist Threat,” The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, (Spring 2006)
7. “ India and Southeast Asia in the Age of Terror: Building Partnerships for Peace,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2006)
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. “The Myth of the Second Front: Localizing the ‘War on Terror’ in Southeast Asia,” Washington Quarterly, (Autumn 2007)
   
10. “Making Money in the Mayhem: Funding Taliban Insurrection in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 32:2 (January 2009)
    
11. “Small Amounts for Big Bangs: Rethinking Responses to Low-cost Terrorism,” Journal of Money Laundering Control, 12.3, (2009)

 

Book Reviews

• 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, 75:3, (Fall 2002)
• D.R. Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas, eds., Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century, ( New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Contemporary Southeast Asia, 24:3 (December 2002)