Click to Download - The Sydney Institute Podcast - 09-10-2006 - Dr Zachary Abuzu.mp3 (29.93 MB)
DR ZACHARY ABUZA is an Associate Professor in the Political Science and International Relations Department at Simmons College Boston where he specializes in Southeast Asian politics and security issues.
"In some sense there is a degree of complacency that JI has been eradicated and beaten and this will certainly impact the international cooperation within Southeast Asia."
"When you look at the number of JI leaders at large,..., there are about 18 known JI leaders at large which is of concern to anyone. That is not a small number. That's a real cadre of people with not only technical expertise but quite a few of them are some of those with the closest links to the al Qu'ida organisation or important money men."
Zachary Abuza is the author of Uncivil Islam: Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia (2006); Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand and its Implications for Southeast Asian Security (2006); Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (2003) and Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (2001). He has also authored two studies for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Funding Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Financial Network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, NBR Analysis (2003); and Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia, NBR Analysis (2004). He consults widely and is a frequent commentator in the press. Dr. Abuza received his MALD and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.