Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Emerging challenges -- Countering the Islamic State in asia / Dawood Azami -- Philippines' counter-terror conundrum: Marawi and Duterte's battle against the Islamic State / Richard Javad Heydarian -- The evolution of violent extremism and state response in Indonesia / Geoffrey MacDonald, Rhonda Mays, and Luke Waggoner -- The Rohingya and Myanmar's counter terrorism approach / Bibhu Prasad Routray -- Emerging violent radical Islamism in the Maldives / Kirklin J. Bateman -- Part 2. Cautious optimism - or false dawn? -- Back to the future: Nepali people's war as "new war" / Thomas A. Marks -- India's two-track response to the Naxalite movement: security and development, but no political process / Samir Puri -- India's fleeting attachment to the counterinsurgency grand strategy / Bibhu Prasad Routray -- Countering violent extremism: the Singapore experience / Mohamed Bin Ali -- Challenges in counter terrorism and counter violent extremism in Malaysia / Andrin Raj -- Part 3. Quagmires -- The counter-insurgency quandary in post-2001 Afghanistan / Antonio Giustozzi -- Insurgency and violent extremism in Pakistan / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- Counter-insurgency in Pakistan: the role of legitimacy / Anatol Lieven -- Thailand's south: roots of conflict / Thomas A. Marks -- Part 4. Victory? -- Size still matters: explaining Sri Lanka's counterinsurgency victory over the Tamil Tigers / Sameer Lalwani -- Sri Lanka: state response to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam / Thomas A. Marks -- Conclusion.