Conflicts in the Middle East have historically influenced terrorism dynamics in South-east Asia. As the war between Iran and US-Israel forces rages on past its first month, its effects are rippling out globally, most immediately and obviously in the form of oil price shocks and market upheavals. But the war’s latent effects on security in South-east Asia, Singapore included, bear monitoring too. To understand why, we need to consider the history of how spillovers from Middle Eastern conflicts have reached our shores and also how the current fighting involving Iran has its own unique threat dynamics. South-east Asia experienced two...