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    Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of ... Read more

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    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
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    Series series Politics in Asia
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