Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 07/2009

Conflict, Community, and Criminality in Southeast Asia and Australia

Arnaud de Borchgrave, Thomas Sanderson, David Gordon

June 2009

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Abstract

These assessments were drafted by members of the CSIS Trusted Information Network project on Southeast Asia (TIN-2). To access the primary TIN-2 report, please see http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,5462/. Because the TIN-2 discussion questions focused on overarching thematic issues, we felt it was important to draw on the tremendous and varied knowledge of the TIN-2 team to create a regional threat assessment. To this end, we asked TIN members to draft a short paper on their respective areas of expertise in late autumn 2008. These assessments illustrate what a modest level of outreach to nongovernmental experts can provide.