I : Historical perspectives -- Ethnicity in the evolution of Asia's armed bureaucracies -- Burmese-Karen warfare, 1840-1850: Thai view -- Ethnicity in Tso Tsung-t'ang's armies, 1860-1880: the interest group perspective in Chinese imperial relations -- Ethnicity in a colonial Asian army: British policy, war, and the Indian army, 1914-1918 -- Ethnic minorities and the growth of the people's army of Vietnam -- II : Contemporary perspectives -- The Chinese people's liberation army and minority nationalities -- The bayonet and the truncheon: army / politics relations in Malaysia -- Ethnicity and the armed forces in Singapore -- The influences of ethnicity in the evolution of the Indonesian military elite

1. Armed Forces
2. Ethnic groups
3. Ethnology -- Asia
4. Sociology
5. Military