Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

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Confronting Ghosts: Thailand's Shapeless Southern Insurgency

Don Pathan, Joseph Chinyong Liow

March 2010

Lowy Institute for International Policy

Abstract

In this Lowy Institute Paper, Joseph Chinyong Liow and Don Pathan examine the ongoing violence in the majority Muslim Malay provinces of Thailand’s south. Through unprecedented fieldwork, the authors provide the deepest and most up-to-date analysis of the insurgency and problems the Thai Government faces in dealing with it.