 Mike Millard Living in Singapore and Japan, traveling widely in the region, Mike Millard has worked in Asia for the better part of two decades, including his military service, with time out to earn degrees at the University of Oregon and the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. |
Books "Mike Millard is a gifted and insightful observer of cultural differences. He applies his skills here in analyzing the collision of three social models in one part of the world: the 'guided democracy' under which Singapore and other Asian countries have risen to wealth; the liberal individualism of the West; and the fundamentalist threat from radical Islam. Jihad in Paradise makes clear the stakes for the world in Southeast Asia's future. It is also a lot of fun to read." -- James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly "Traditionally, the most insightful and passionate works about the Orient have been written by outsiders. After having encountered Asia for a decade, Millard chronicles Singapore from his heart and soul. His personal and intimate knowledge of the momentous events and actors enables him to cast them artfully. Jihad in Paradise is a must read for all those who want to know Singapore, Asia-Pacific's vanguard." -- Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda, Global Network of Terror "In Jihad in Paradise Mike Millard explores the making and the mindset of terrorists belonging to the Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian associate of Al Qaeda, and the perceptions of them in the multiethnic plural societies of Singapore and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. He does this in part through thoughtful interviews with scholars, writers, political and religious figures and ordinary people. The result is a book that is deceptively simple, sensitive and insightful." -- K. Kesavapany, Director of Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore  "That political dysfunction is a two-way detour is ably demonstrated in Millard's honest and unbiased account- rarely have the two sides, theirs and ours, been stripped so bare." -- Donald Richie, author of The Inland Sea "Every once in a while a genuinely thoughtful person addresses Japan and its peculiar military and economic relationship with the United States. Mike Millard's extended essay is a superb example. His book is an original, trenchant analysis of why Japan is not a democracy and why the U.S. government pretends that it is. His chapters on Okinawa alone are worth the price of admission. If Americans ever start to wake up from their triumphalist dreams, this is one of the first books they should read." -- Chalmers Johnson, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle, and The Sorrows of Empire |
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