Download or read book Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago written by Andrew Tian Huat Tan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition, claims Tan (Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore), that the Malay Archipelago has assumed a major strategic importance in the global war against terrorism, given that it has the world's largest Muslim population, with Indonesia having the distinction of being the most populous Muslim country in the wor