RSIS Commentaries are published by the
School to provide timely and, where appropriate,
policy relevant background and analysis of
contemporary developments. Listed here are
the commentaries published since the recent
inauguration of the series in October 2001.
Network Centric Management of Maritime Security by Paul Mitchell RSIS Commentaries No. 94 Click here to download Commentary
Offshore Balancer US Role in Asia’s Emerging Security Architecture by Manjeet S Pardesi RSIS Commentaries No. 93 Click here to download Commentary
The Rise of East Asia? ASEAN’s driver role key to ties between Japan and China by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 92 Click here to download Commentary
The Rise of East Asia? A new regional forum finds form by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 91 Click here to download Commentary
East Asian Institutionalism: Where do we go now? by Ralf Emmers RSIS Commentaries No. 90 Click here to download Commentary
The Military and Counter-Terrorism by Bernard Loo RSIS Commentaries No. 89 Click here to download Commentary
How modern ammunitions can save lives by Alvin Chew RSIS Commentaries No. 88 Click here to download Commentary
November
Sequels Seldom Sell: Why Terrorism is losing its Strategic Value for Al-Qaeda by Bernard Loo and Norman Vasu RSIS Commentaries No. 87 Click here to download Commentary
Managing the peace-conflict Continuum: A Coast Guard for Singapore? by Joshua Ho RSIS Commentaries No. 86 Click here to download Commentary
Business Analogies at War: Insights from the world of business strategy by Adrian Kuah RSIS Commentaries No. 85 Click here to download Commentary
Jemaah Islamiyah: An evolution in tactics or a weakening? by Rohaiza Ahmad Asi RSIS Commentaries No. 84 Click here to download Commentary
Doha Round and Global Poverty: Ten Reasons Why the US Should Care by Allan S. Layug RSIS Commentaries No. 83 Click here to download Commentary
Six-Party Talks: Moderate Aims Fulfilled, Keep an Open Mind by Tan Kwoh Jack RSIS Commentaries No. 82 Click here to download Commentary
The Coming East Asia Summit: A Thirty-Point Agenda by Tan See Seng and Ralf Emmers RSIS Commentaries No. 81 Click here to download Commentary
“Islands of the Kings” arrive at the “Gardens of the Righteous”: The prospects of internationalization of Chechen terrorism by Adam Dolnik RSIS Commentaries No. 80 Click here to download Commentary
Scaling Rising Tides; A Three-Pronged Approach to Safeguard Malacca Straits by Bobby Thomas RSIS Commentaries No. 79 Click here to download Commentary
October
New Delhi Blasts: Targeting Peace in the Sub-continent. by Arabinda Acharya RSIS Commentaries No. 78 Click here to download Commentary
A milestone constitution by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 77 Click here to download Commentary
Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy by Joey Long RSIS Commentaries No. 76 Click here to download Commentary
Governments Meet to Strengthen Maritime Security Legal Measures by Catherine Zara Raymond RSIS Commentaries No. 75 Click here to download Commentary
Doha and Globalisation’s Missing Middle by Barry Desker RSIS Commentaries No. 74 Click here to download Commentary
Al Qaeda wants its own TV by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 73 Click here to download Commentary
The Promise and Peril of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by Paul T. Mitchell RSIS Commentaries No. 72 Click here to download Commentary
Issues for an ASEAN Charter by Amitav Acharya RSIS Commentaries No. 71 Click here to download Commentary
Martime Air Patrols The New Weapon Against Piracy in the Malacca Straits by Graham Gerard Ong and Joshua Ho RSIS Commentaries No. 70 Click here to download Commentary
The Way Forward in the Southern Thailand Conflict : A Public Peace Process by S P Harish RSIS Commentaries No. 69 Click here to download Commentary
Changes in Chinese Civil-Military Relations by Nan Li RSIS Commentaries No. 68 Click here to download Commentary
The ‘Black Widows’ of Iraq by Adam Dolnik RSIS Commentaries No. 67 Click here to download Commentary
September
Can Islam Be Contextualised ? by Muhammad Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 66 Click here to download Commentary
Indonesian Regional Elections in Praxis by Sukardi Rinakit RSIS Commentaries No. 65 Click here to download Commentary
Pakistan at the Forefront of the War Against Terrorism by Arabinda Acharya RSIS Commentaries No. 64 Click here to download Commentary
Islam, Pluralism & Multi-Culturalism by Muhammad Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 63 Click here to download Commentary
The Internet and Al Qaeda How bin Laden uses Technology for his cause by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 62 Click here to download Commentary
Multiculturalism and Extremism: The Insider-Outsider Debate by Norman Vasu and Elena Pavlova RSIS Commentaries No. 61 Click here to download Commentary
The ‘ASEAN Charter’: A Crossroads for the Region? by Christopher Roberts RSIS Commentaries No. 60 Click here to download Commentary
August
Return of the Mahathir Era? by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 59 Click here to download Commentary
Kashmir: Remaking the bridge linking India, Pakistan and China by C. Raja Mohan RSIS Commentaries No. 58 Click here to download Commentary
Malacca Straits a ‘war risk zone’? Llyod’s should review its assessment by Bobby Thomas RSIS Commentaries No. 57 Click here to download Commentary
Peace Agreement with GAM: End of the Peace Process? by S P Harish RSIS Commentaries No. 56 Click here to download Commentary
Saudi Arabia After Fahd: Prospects For Change and Reform by Muhammad Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 55 Click here to download Commentary
General Zhu’s Nuclear Strike Remarks: Reading between the Lines by Tan Boon Cho RSIS Commentaries No. 54 Click here to download Commentary
US-India Global Partnership: The Changing Balance of Power in Asia by Manjeet S Pardesi RSIS Commentaries No. 53 Click here to download Commentary
Malacca Straits: A High-Risk Zone? by Catherine Zara Raymond RSIS Commentaries No. 52 Click here to download Commentary
The Role of Open Source Intelligence In The Global War On Terror by Jonathan Tow & Weimeng Yeo RSIS Commentaries No. 51 Click here to download Commentary
AFTER LONDON: The role of the Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) in counter-terrorism by Alvin Chew RSIS Commentaries No. 50 Click here to download Commentary
Malacca Straits Security: A Private Affair? by Catherine Zara Raymond RSIS Commentaries No. 49 Click here to download Commentary
July
Jihad Through The Eyes of Mainstream Ulama (Not for Publication in the Print Media) by Premarani Somasundram RSIS Commentaries No. 48 Click here to download Commentary
The London Bombings: Fundamental Change in Fundamentalist Times by Norman Vasu RSIS Commentaries No. 47 Click here to download Commentary
The ASEAN Regional Forum: Still Thriving After All These Years by Khong Yuen Foong RSIS Commentaries No. 46 Click here to download Commentary
Arroyo and the Philippines’ “Unfinished Revolution” by Mely Caballero-Anthony RSIS Commentaries No. 45 Click here to download Commentary
The ACEH Peace Accord 2005: Breakthrough, At Last? by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 44 Click here to download Commentary
The London Bombings: Radicalisation and its implications by Sarah Jamie Burnell RSIS Commentaries No. 43 Click here to download Commentary
AFTER LONDON: Securing Public Transport Systems Against Terrorist Attacks by Arabinda Acharya RSIS Commentaries No. 42 Click here to download Commentary
Darul Islam: A Fertile Ground for Jemaah Islamiyah’s Recruitment? by Rohaiza Ahmad Asi RSIS Commentaries No. 41 Click here to download Commentary
Europe’s Crisis and Asia by Amitav Acharya RSIS Commentaries No. 40 Click here to download Commentary
U.S. Military Transfgormation and Implications for Asian Security by Bernard Loo RSIS Commentaries No. 39 Click here to download Commentary
June
The Remaking of PAS: Is There An Anwar Hand? by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 38 Click here to download Commentary
The Gleneagles Summit: Why Does the U.S. Not Want to Give More Aid to Africa? by Deborah Elms RSIS Commentaries No. 37 Click here to download Commentary
The Aceh Conflict: A New Hope for Peace by Inggrid Panontongan RSIS Commentaries No. 36 Click here to download Commentary
Thailand’s Restive South: Time to Acknowledge the Multiplicity of Thai-ness by Norman Vasu RSIS Commentaries No. 35 Click here to download Commentary
The US Military and Non-Conventional War: Is Firepower Cheaper than Manpower? by Bernard Loo and Kumar Ramakrishna RSIS Commentaries No. 34 Click here to download Commentary
Maritime Security and International Cooperation by Joshua Ho RSIS Commentaries No. 33 Click here to download Commentary
Riding The East Asian Tiger: What Next? by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 32 Click here to download Commentary
Recent Advances in Regional Financial Cooperation: Has ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Overtaken ASEAN? by Helen E S Nesadurai RSIS Commentaries No. 31 Click here to download Commentary
National Security Strategy in the Age of Revolutions in Security Affairs by Bernard Loo RSIS Commentaries No. 30 Click here to download Commentary
Religion, Terror and the Fundamentalist Mentality by Kumar Ramakrishna RSIS Commentaries No. 29 Click here to download Commentary
May
Understanding Development Gaps in ASEAN by Mely Caballero-Anthony RSIS Commentaries No. 28 Click here to download Commentary
Robbery In The Name Of Jihad by Muhammad Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 27 Click here to download Commentary
Militancy and Madrasahs in Pakistan: An Overstated Connection? by Faizah A. Samat RSIS Commentaries No. 26 Click here to download Commentary
Renewed American Diplomacy: Keeping Southeast Asia on US radar screen by Evelyn Goh RSIS Commentaries No. 25 Click here to download Commentary
Why China’s Taiwan Policy Initiatives by Nan Li RSIS Commentaries No. 24 Click here to download Commentary
Singapore’s Next Fighter Project: Why the Eurofighter Typhoon is out of the race by Alvin Chew RSIS Commentaries No. 23 Click here to download Commentary
Security in Maritime Southeast Asia: Private Solutions to Public Problems by Morten Hansen RSIS Commentaries No. 22 Click here to download Commentary
April
India and China: Neither Friends nor Foes by Manjeet S Pardesi RSIS Commentaries No. 21 Click here to download Commentary
China and the South China Sea: What Happened to ASEAN’s Solidarity? by Christopher Roberts RSIS Commentaries No. 20 Click here to download Commentary
AN ERA OF FLUX Fluidity in the Regional Maritime Environment by Joshua Ho RSIS Commentaries No. 19 Click here to download Commentary
Towards a New Strategic Partnership between Asia and Africa by Ali Alatas RSIS Commentaries No. 18 Click here to download Commentary
Insurgency in Southern Thailand: Ethnic or Religious Conflict? by S P Harish RSIS Commentaries No. 17 Click here to download Commentary
Iraq: An Uncertain Future for the Private Military Industry by Morten Hansen RSIS Commentaries No. 16 Click here to download Commentary
ASEAN Cohesion: Making Sense of Indonesian Reactions to Bilateral Disputes by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 15 Click here to download Commentary
March
A Nuclear North Korea – Assessing The Fallout by Bernard Loo RSIS Commentaries No. 14 Click here to download Commentary
Deepening Singapore-India Strategic Ties by Manjeet S Pardesi RSIS Commentaries No. 13 Click here to download Commentary
The Pentagon’s Strategy Toward Southeast Asia: Bolstering the States along the Seams by Joey Long RSIS Commentaries No. 12 Click here to download Commentary
Over-reading the Islamist factor in Thailand’s southern troubles by Joseph Chinyong Liow RSIS Commentaries No. 11 Click here to download Commentary
Protecting the Malacca Straits by Barry Desker RSIS Commentaries No. 10 Click here to download Commentary
Anti-Terror War: The Kingdom Strikes Back by Muhammed Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 9 Click here to download Commentary
February
Iraq’s Historic Elections: Boon or Bane for Iraqis? by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 8 Click here to download Commentary
GAM, Islam and The Future of Aceh by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 7 Click here to download Commentary
Trouble in Thailand’s Muslim South: What a stronger Thaksin can do by Muhammad Haniff Hassan RSIS Commentaries No. 6 Click here to download Commentary
January
SAF: A Flexible Force To Deal With The Unexpected by Bernard Loo and Joshua Ho RSIS Commentaries No. 5 Click here to download Commentary
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: A New Constellation of Militants by Elena Pavlova RSIS Commentaries No. 4 Click here to download Commentary
Tsunami: Nature’s Test for ASEAN’s New Leadership by Yang Razali Kassim RSIS Commentaries No. 3 Click here to download Commentary
Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (Part II) The Ideologues by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 2 Click here to download Commentary
Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (Part I) The Beginnings by Bouchaib Silm RSIS Commentaries No. 1 Click here to download Commentary
