Islam and Society in Southeast Asia

Population and society in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.

The historical demographic analysis in this article is a revision of a paper presented at the Conference of the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in 1988 at the University of Oregon. The author takes the view that fertility has remained high in the Southeast Asian region due to the dynamics of colonialism and the reinforcement of traditional society. Industrialization,...

Islam in an Era of Nation-States POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS RENEWAL IN MUSLIM SOUTHEAST ASIA

kurdish diaspora in central asia and caoucasus

در طول دو قرن گذشته و ظهور روسیه بعنوان قدرتی بزرگ در عرصه جهانی و شروع رقابت با سایر قدرت های بین المللی و منطقهای خصوصا با ایران و عثمانی این ئکشور تلاش کرده است تاد از جمعیت کردها در این کشورها در راستای منافع خود بهره برداری کند در قرون 18 و 19 بارها بخشی از کردها برعلیه امپراطوری عثمانی توسط این کشور مورد استفاده قرار گرفت خصوصا در جنگ های سال 1790تا 1798. این ججنگ ها م.جب شد که بخشی از کر...

Globalization and Southeast Asia

In the 1990s Southeast Asia became prominent in discussions of globalization. Comparative studies often pointed to the region’s capitalist economies as exemplars of pro-globalization development strategies, countries whose economic and political fortunes have been tied (for better or worse) to a deepening embrace of global trade and investment. The region’s sudden economic reversal in 1997-98 c...

Health in southeast Asia.

Neglect of human rights that compromises health outcomes, the combination of high population density and domestic livestock that encourages zoonoses, claims over viral sovereignty, and an emphasis on health tourism that creates dual standards of care: too often health in southeast Asia is in the news for the wrong reasons. Today’s Lancet reports good news from the region as well as disappointme...