Peter Chalk
Dr. Peter Chalk is a former senior analyst with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA and is now a full-time consultant based out of Phoenix, AZ. He is a freelance contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, Associate Editor of Studies in Conflict Terrorism and serves as a Subject Matter Expert with the Institute for Security Governance in Monterey, California.
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Articles by Peter Chalk
Beijing’s Aggression Behind Emerging India-Philippines Defense Relationship
The People’s Republic of China’s increasingly assertive stance on affirming its territorial claims in the Indo-Pacific is informing the evolution of a closer defense relationship between New Delhi and Manila....
Illegal Fishing in Southeast Asia: Scope, Dimensions, Impacts, and Multilateral Response
Introduction Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUUF) has surfaced as an increasingly salient offshore threat in Southeast Asia that is leading to huge losses in government revenue, adversely impacting food...
PRC Influence Operations in the Philippines: Can Beijing Flip the South China Sea Script?
Introduction In early March, a flotilla of more than 40 suspected Chinese maritime militia vessels swarmed around Pag-asa (Thitu) Island, the Philippines’ largest outpost in the South China Sea (SCS)...
From Germ Warfare to Restaurateur: The Life of Malaysia’s Yazid Sufaat
Introduction Yazid Sufaat, a former captain in the Malaysian Army, was arrested under Kuala Lumpur’s Internal Security Act (ISA) in December 2001. He was directly tied to two of the...
Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Growing International Focus and Its Links with al-Qaeda
Recent revelations that several so-called “home-grown militants” connected to terrorist plots in Europe, North America and Australia had passed through camps controlled by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have generated growing concern that...
Christian Converts and Islamic Terrorism in the Philippines
For several years now, the Republic of the Philippines has attracted the attention of regional and Western authorities as an emergent hub—both logistically and operationally—for cross-border jihadist extremism in Southeast...
The Indigenous Nature of the Thai Insurgency
The recent upsurge of unrest in southern Thailand has increased concerns that the country’s Malay Muslim provinces—Pattani, Yala and Narithiwat—may be emerging as a new front for cross-border terrorism in...
The Re-Orientation of Kashmiri Extremism: A Threat to Regional and International Security
Since the onset of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), the activities of foreign jihadists in Pakistan have been a major source of concern for both Washington and Islamabad. However, an equally...
North and West Africa: The Global War on Terror and Regional Collaboration
Terrorism is not new to North and West Africa. The region as a whole has been affected by a range of ethno-nationalist and religious conflicts, a number of which have...
The U.S. Agricultural System: A Target for al-Qaeda?
Last December, the departing Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, used his farewell address to highlight the vulnerability of the U.S. agricultural sector to a biological terrorist strike,...
THE U.S. AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM: A TARGET FOR AL-QAEDA?
Last December, the departing Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, used his farewell address to highlight the vulnerability of the U.S. agricultural sector to a biological terrorist strike,...