Overview
- Approaches the study of Indonesian terrorism and militancy from a bold and fresh inter-disciplinary perspective
- Provides a provocative new framework for understanding the stubborn resilience and adaptive capacity of violent Islamist terrorism and militancy in Indonesia
- Suggests how violent Islamist terrorism and militancy in Indonesia could be effectively neutralized through targeted policy interventions in the counter-narrative space
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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The Human Nature Triad Unpacked – The Manichean Mindset, Embattled Religiosity and Violent Fundamentalism
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The Human Nature Triad Applied – Violent Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia: Origins, Evolution and the Counter-Ideological Response
Keywords
- Complex, adaptive, self-organizing system in Indonesia
- Counter-ideological response in Indonesia
- Darul Islam Counterculture
- Islamist Terrorism in Indonesia
- Islamist fundamentalism in Indonesia
- Manichean Mindset
- Militancy in Indonesia
- Religious Fundamentalism
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- Violent Fundamentalism
About this book
Reviews
"A few books are a „must-read“ for everyone who specializes in Islamism and militancy, but also looks for broader explanations of human behaviour. Kumar Ramakrishna's „Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia – The Power of the Manichean Mindset“ is one of these books. ... The book is excellently written and opens up new thought-venues on the emergence of political violence. ... It is highly interesting to read, not only for experts, but also for a broader audience who are looking for a well explained overview of the social mechanisms that lead to the formation of groups and socio-collective identities, and from this vantage point to group-violence." (Dr. Philipp Holtmann, historian, author, scholar of Middle-East-Studies, April 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kumar Ramakrishna is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been a frequent speaker on counter-terrorism before local and international audiences, a regular media commentator on the issue and published in numerous internationally refereed journals. He has co-edited two well-received books on counter-terrorism, The New Terrorism: Anatomy, Trends and Counter-Strategies (2002) as well as After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (2004). His first major book, Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Malayan Hearts and Minds, 1948-1958, (2002) was described by The International History Review as “required reading for historians of Malaya, and for those whose task is to counter insurgents, guerrillas, and-terrorists”. In May 2012, his most recent book, Radical Pathways: Understanding Muslim Radicalization in Indonesia (2009), was identified by Perspectives on Terrorism as one of the top 150 books on terrorism and counter-terrorism as well as “an important and insightful case study on the pathways to extremism and violent jihad in Indonesia”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia
Book Subtitle: The Power of the Manichean Mindset
Authors: Kumar Ramakrishna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-194-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-193-0Published: 31 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1256-3Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-194-7Published: 19 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 269
Topics: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Anthropology, Political Theory