This book explores the security effects that the US-led 'War on Terror' (WOT) has had on both state and non-state actors in East and Southeast Asia.

Utilizing a -weak ontological- critical-security approach, which demands a historically and geographically contingent method of immanent critique, this book examines the effects that terrorism and counter-terrorism, as well as terrorists and state authority have on the production of security and insecurity in the years following September 11th 2001. As a form of immanent critique this book asks - and answers - the following...