BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 233
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: India regards China’s efforts to enhance its naval presence in the Indian Ocean as undermining New Delhi’s strategic position. As a response, India has beefed up its naval capabilities, increasing the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 188
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The country of Myanmar recently embarked on a widely-hailed democratization process. Renewed violence between local Buddhists and Muslims, however, threatens the country’s advance and may thrust the region into turmoil. Myanmar’s policies …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 184
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Events in Indonesia during September 2012 raised concerns that the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation may be taking a turn toward hardline Islamism. A major government official openly called for the elimination of …
