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xvi Contributors Zachary Abuza, Professor of Political Science, Simmons College, Boston, specializes in Southeast Asian politics and security issues. His recent works include Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand (2009), Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia (2006), Balik Terrorism: The Return of the Abu Sayyaf (2005), Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (2003) and Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (2001). Alex Au is founder and webmaster of Yawning Bread, which provides critical analyses of politics and society, focusing on gay issues. With over 20 years’ regional experience in marketing and corporate affairs,Au now runs his own small businesses and devotes time to freelance writing and activism on gay issues, human rights, political trends and the impact of digital speech on society. P.N. Balji has ink in his blood, having worked in the print media for more than 30 years. He started as a rookie reporter in 1970 (The Malay Mail), and was subsequently sub-editor, chief sub-editor (The New Nation), deputy editor (Straits Times), editor of two newspapers (The New Paper and Today) and publisher (Today). Balji was a consultant for: The New Straits (KL) managing its transition from broadsheet into a tabloid; The Week magazine in Kerala; and The Hindustan Times (New Delhi) where he did a prototype for a women’s paper. He is now Director of the Asia Journalism Fellowship, a Temasek Foundation-NTU initiative. Manu Bhaskaran is a Partner and Member of the Board, Centennial Group Inc, a strategic advisory group based in Washington, DC. He heads the Group’s economic research practice based in Singapore, and is concurrently an adjunct senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies where he co-leads the Institute’s work in economics. His major area of research interest is the Singapore economy and the policy options it faces. James U.H. Chin is Foundation Head, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia Campus. He has written widely on issues related to political and economic development in Southeast Asia, principally Malaysia, and the South Pacific. He recently co-edited Reminiscences: Recollections of Sarawak Administrative Officers (2007). Alan Chong is associate professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, international communication, Singaporean politics and foreign policy, and Asian international theory. His latest journal article inquires into the reasons for the relative absence of theorising within Southeast Asian international relations studies. His first book is Foreign Policy in Global Information Space: Actualizing Soft Power (2007). CONTRIBUTORS XVII Chua Beng Huat is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His books on Singapore include Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore, Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore and Life is Not Complete without Shopping (2003), and edited Communitarian Politics in Asia (2004). He is a founding co-editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal. Janadas Devan edits the op-ed pages of The Straits Times and writes on international politics and language for the newspaper. Educated at the University of Singapore and Cornell University (New York), he divides his time between the United States, where he lives with his wife and son, and Singapore. Hussin Mutalib is an associate professor and Deputy Head of the Political Science Department, National University of Singapore. The author/editor of five books, his latest is Parties and Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore. He has also published in international journals. He received the Asia-Pacific Youth Leadership Award (to USA), Japan Social Science Foundation Award (to Japan), Fulbright Award, and Ford Foundation scholarship. He has been a Fellow at LSE, Harvard, UC (Berkeley), Oxford and Cairo. Asad-ul Iqbal Latif is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. His areas of research include Singapore’s political and strategic relations with China, India and the United States. He is the author of Three Sides in Search of a Triangle: Singapore-America-India Relations (2009), India in the Making of Singapore (2008), and Between Rising Powers: China, Singapore and India (2007). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2006. N. Ganesan is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan where he researches intra and interstate sources of tension in Southeast Asia. His recent publications include Realism and Interdependence in Singapore’s Foreign Policy (2005) and Myanmar: State, Society, Ethnicity...

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