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Dr. Angel M. Rabasa is a Senior Policy Analyst at RAND who was written extensively about political Islam and security issues in Southeast Asia and other regions of the Muslim world and advises the U.S. Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies on Southeast Asian security issues. He is the project leader of the recently completed RAND study "Beyond al-Qaeda: Countering Future Terrorist and Other Non-Traditional Threats." He was the project leader and lead author of The Muslim World After 9/11 (RAND 2004). His other works include the International Institute for Strategic Studies Adelphi Paper No. 358, Political Islam in Southeast Asia: Moderates, Radicals and Terrorist (2003); The Military and Democracy in Indonesia: Challenges, Politics, and Power (RAND 2002), with John Haseman; and Indonesia's Transformation and the Stability of Southeast Asia (RAND 2001), with Peter Chalk. Dr. Rabasa is also a contributor to the Hudson Institute's Current Trends in Islamist Ideology (2005), to Jean-Luc Marret, ed., Les fabriques du jihad (University of France Press 2005), and to other books and reports.

Dr. Rabasa has published numerous articles on international issues in the U.S. and international press such as The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The International Herald Tribune, The Straits Times of Singapore and other international publications. He has testified at U.S. Congressional hearings, most recently, in November 2005, on the differences between moderate and radical Islam before a panel of the Armed Forces Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Before joining the staff of the RAND Corporation, he served in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. Dr. Rabasa has a B.A. and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and was a Knox Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

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