Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia

Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.

Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.

1. War, Peace, and Many Shades in Between: Asia in the New Millennium; William Ascher and Natalia S. Mirovitskaya 2. The Nexus of Economic Strategies and Intergroup Violence; William Ascher and Natalia S. Mirovitskaya 3. Tribal Participation in India's Maoist Insurgency: Examining the Role of Economic Development Policies; Sumit Ganguly and Jennifer Oetken 4. Intra-State Conflicts and Development Strategies: The Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan; G. Shabbir Cheema 5. Development Strategies, Religious Relations, and Communal Violence in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: A Cautionary Tale; Lorraine V. Aragon 6. Exploring the Relationship between Development and Conflict: The Malaysian Experience; Ananthi Al Ramiah and Thillainathan Ramasamy 7. Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Conflict: A case study on Japanese ODA to Vietnam; Edward M. Feasel 8. Socioeconomic Change, Intra-ethnic Competition and Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: The Cases of Turkey and Uzbekistan; Ebru Erdem-Akcay 9. Local vs. Transcendent Insurgencies: Why Economic Aid Helps Lower Violence in Dagestan, but not in Kabardino-Balkaria; Mikhail Alexseev 10. The Conflict-Development Nexus in Asia: Policy Approaches; William Ascher and Natalia S. Mirovitskaya