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This volume offers a detailed analysis of how the current phase of capitalism is eating away at social, interpersonal, and psychological health. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary body of research, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn describes an emerging form of human distress-what he calls `third order suffering'-that is rapidly becoming normative. Moreover, this new paradigm of affliction is increasingly entangled with already-existing genres of misery, such as sexism, racism, and class struggle, mutating their appearances and mystifying their intersections. Along the way, Rogers-Vaughn presents...

Contents: Preface; Overview; The 9/11 Commission's Recommendations; Background -- The Rise of Islamic Militancy and Terrorism in Southeast Asia; The Rise of Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia; The Jemaah Islamiyah Network; History of Jemaah Islamiyah; Jemaah Islamiyah's Relationship to Al Qaeda; Jemaah Islamiyah's Size and Structure; Major Plots and Attacks; The Trial of Baasyir; Recent Activities; Focus Countries; Indonesia; Background; Shifts in Jakarta's Counter-Terrorism Policy; Recent Developments; The Philippines; Thailand; Role of Congress/Legislation; Indonesia; The Philippines; Thailand;...

FROM THE AUTHORS: As an academic field in its own right, the topic of border studies is experiencing a revival in university geography courses as well as in wider political commentary. Of course, something about the postmodernist sensibility readily embraces the ambiguity, impermanence, transience, and twilight nature of bordered spaces among the planet's 192 territorially defined states. But we have another motivation in assembling this book, one rooted in contemporary rivalries sited in one of the world's most open regions. Until recently, border studies in contemporary Southeast Asia...