Non-Traditional Threats and Maritime Domain Awareness in the Tri-Border Area of Southeast Asia: The Coast Watch System of the Philippines

Analyzes the security environment in the tri-border area between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia and considers ways to improve maritime domain awareness in the region.

Enhancement by Enlargement: The Proliferation Security Initiative

Details the cost-and-benefit estimates arrived at by five key countries reluctant to affiliate with the Proliferation Security Initiative (the "hold-out" nations) and suggests strategies for changing those estimates in favor of affiliation.

The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand -- Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic: RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 5

Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention. This paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.

Reliability of Reasons for Early Termination of Breastfeeding: Application of a Bivariate Probability Model with Sample Selection to Data from Surveys in Malaysia in 1976-77 and 1988-89

Social status, social norms, and health-related factors appear to be significant influences on women's consistency of reporting.

The Impact of Wives' Earnings on Earnings Inequality Among Married-couple Households in Malaysia

Analyze the effects of wives' earnings on household earnings' inequality in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976 and 1988. We find that wives' earnings helped equalize the distribution of household earnings in Malaysia, both at the two points in time and over time.

Ethnicity and Fertility Differentials in Peninsular Malaysia: Do Policies Matter?

Correlates of Short Interbirth Intervals in Peninsula Malaysia: Their Pathways of Influence Through Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use

Correlates of Short Interbirth Intervals in Peninsula Malaysia: Their Pathways of Influence Through Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia