VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3
(AUTUMN) SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2022
CONTENTS
RISING ASIA FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED ANNUAL
FOREIGN POLICY LECTURE 2021
DINO PATTI DJALAL
PhD, former Indonesian Ambassador, and Founder
of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia
THE “PARADOXES” OF THE ASIAN CENTURY
COLUMNS
POR HEONG HONG
REGIONAL REFORM AND CHANGE
THE UNFINALIZED HEALTHCARE REFORM IN MALAYSIA
CARINA VO-TA
DIASPORA STUDIES
FAMILY STORIES: FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
HARISH C. MEHTA
THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENCY, 1986-2022
STORM WATCH: CLOUDS OVER MALACAÑANG PALACE
RESEARCH ARTICLES
BINODKUMAR SINGH
POST-COLD WAR INDO-BANGLADESH RELATIONS
FROM HIGHS AND LOWS TO A “GOLDEN ERA”
MD. NASIR UDDIN
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN SECURITY
THE STRUCTURES OF AL-QAEDA AND ISLAMIC STATE IN SOUTH ASIA, AND THEIR PROPAGANDA IN INDIA, BANGLADESH, AND MYANMAR
PRASANTA MAHANTA
RACE IN CINEMA
THE DEHUMANIZATION OF THE AFRICAN OTHER IN BOLLYWOOD FILM
BOOK REVIEWS
KOUSHIK GOSWAMI
Himadri Lahiri, Asia Travels: Pan-Asian Cultural Discourses and
Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English
THE CONVERGENCE OF PAN-ASIANISM AND THE DIASPORA
VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Gurjit Singh, The Harambee Factor: India-Africa Economic and Development Partnership
LETTING INDIA’S SOFT POWER DO THE TALKING IN AFRICA
Front cover photo credits are acknowledged as follows: President Corazon Aquino’s image (by the courtesy of Malacañang Palace); Fidel Ramos (https://www.facebook.com/pinoyhistory); Salvador Laurel (Office of the Vice President of the Philippines); and Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos (the Presidential Communications Operations Group).
Malaysian photo montage by the courtesy of the Ministry of Health, Kuala Lumpur, https://www.moh.gov.my/.
