Modes of Engagement : Muslim Minorities in Asia

Rafiq Dossani

ISBN 10: 193136835X / ISBN 13: 9781931368353

Published by Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Jun 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Of Asia's 800 million Muslims, 215 million are minorities within their countries. These Muslim minorities have experienced a persistent decline in their socioeconomic and political status. Along with this decline, they are increasingly identified by their faith and largely accorded no other identity for civic relations. Why have these Muslim minorities been particularly affected during a time of unprecedented opportunities for the mainstream in Asia's unprecedented era of growth and rising freedoms.

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• Title: Modes of Engagement : Muslim Minorities in Asia
• Publisher: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Jun 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193136835X
• ISBN 13: 9781931368353
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 153H x 13D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 313 grams

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Synopsis

Of Asia's 800 million Muslims, 215 million are minorities within their countries. These Muslim minorities have experienced a persistent decline in their socioeconomic and political status. Along with this decline, they are increasingly identified by their faith and largely accorded no other identity for civic relations. Why have these Muslim minorities been particularly affected during a time of unprecedented opportunities for the mainstream in Asia's unprecedented era of growth and rising freedoms? Using detailed analyses of China, India, and the Philippines, Modes of Engagement argues that key factors in this phenomenon include the linkage between socioeconomic decline, loss of political power, and narrowing of identity; nationalism and its associated connotations of the assimilation of minorities; the weakness of civil society generally in Asia; and the rise in regional and global alliances for security and trade. Contributors include Wajahat Habibullah (National Commission for Minorities and National Institute of Technology, India), Rakesh Basant (Indian Institute of Management), Dru C. Gladney (Pomona College), and Joseph Chinyong Liow (Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore).

About the Authors

Rafiq Dossani is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. His research interests include regional integration, security, and education. Previously, Dossani was a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and director of the Stanford Center for South Asia.

Rafiq Dossani is director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He works on education, finance, regional development, security, trade, and technology issues. Recent projects include China's grand strategy and its use of institutions, security in the Korean peninsula, the Belt and Road Initiative, Track II diplomacy between the United States and China, and Asia's democratization.