Fred R. Von der Mehden

• Comparative political violence
• Politics of the developing nations
• Religion and modernization in Southeast Asia
• Religion and nationalism in Southeast Asia: Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines
• The Ethnic groups of Houston
• Two worlds of Islam
• Area experts' images of African nations
• Communalism, bureaucracy and access to public services in Afro-Asia
• Education, communalism, and income distribution
• Islam development and politics in Malaysia
• Issues in income distribution
• Local authority and administration in Thailand