Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual assessments of separatist struggles and prospects for conflict resolution in eight countries of Asia.

SHAHEEN AKHTAR Research Fellow, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan SAMIR KUMAR DAS Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, India ELIZABETH VAN WIE DAVIS. Director and Professor of Liberal Arts at the Colorado School of Mines, USA MOHAN MALIK Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, USA JIM ROLFE. Dr Rolfe is a senior fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies, New Zealand ANTHONY L. SMITH Associate Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore PAUL J. SMITH Associate Professor, Naval War College in Rhode Island, USA IAN STOREY Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore