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Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia : The Power of the Manichean Mindset
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ISBN: 9789812871947 9812871934 9789812871930 9812871942 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth the provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system – or what some specialists might even call a super-organism. The book challenges the popular assumption that ideology causes Indonesian Islamists to radicalize into violent extremism. In addition it addresses why, despite years of intense security-force pressure, seemingly disparate militant cells keep ‘popping up’ like the heads of the proverbial Hydra, and why in the apparent absence of a centralized coordinating body, they nevertheless appear to display an organic interconnectivity with one another. Going beyond standard ideological mantras, the book argues that fresh inter-disciplinary thinking is needed to deal with the constantly mutating violent Islamist challenge in Indonesia, and puts forward a comprehensive strategy for doing so. It will be of interest to academics and students of terrorism, religion and violence in the Southeast Asian region.


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Original sin? : revising the revisionist critique of the 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore
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ISBN: 9814620440 9814620432 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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Revisionist' or 'alternative' historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the master narrative of the nation's political and socioeconomic development since its founding by the British in 1819. Much criticism focuses especially on one defining episode of the Story: the internal security dragnet mounted on 2 February 1963 against Communist United Front elements on the island, known to posterity as Operation Coldstore. The revisionists claim that Coldstore was mounted for political rather than security reasons and actually destroyed a legitimate Progressive Left opposition personalized by the charismatic figure of Lim Chin Siong - rather than a dangerous Communist network as the conventional wisdom holds. Relying on both declassified and some previously unseen classified sources, this book challenges revisionist claims, reiterating the historic importance of Coldstore in helping pave the way for Singapore's remarkable journey from Third World status to First in a single generation.


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Original sin?
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ISBN: 9789814620444 9789814620437 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia : The Power of the Manichean Mindset
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ISBN: 9789812871947 9789812871954 9789812871930 9789811012563 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore Springer Singapore, Imprint: Springer

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Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth the provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system – or what some specialists might even call a super-organism. The book challenges the popular assumption that ideology causes Indonesian Islamists to radicalize into violent extremism. In addition it addresses why, despite years of intense security-force pressure, seemingly disparate militant cells keep ‘popping up’ like the heads of the proverbial Hydra, and why in the apparent absence of a centralized coordinating body, they nevertheless appear to display an organic interconnectivity with one another. Going beyond standard ideological mantras, the book argues that fresh inter-disciplinary thinking is needed to deal with the constantly mutating violent Islamist challenge in Indonesia, and puts forward a comprehensive strategy for doing so. It will be of interest to academics and students of terrorism, religion and violence in the Southeast Asian region.


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Extremist Islam : recognition and response in Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9780197610978 0197610978 9780197610961 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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"On 17 April 2020, eleven soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were killed during a battle with 40 fighters of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Patikul town, in the Sulu region of Mindanao, southern Philippines. The ASG had apparently ambushed the troops during the latter's operations aimed at tracking down two senior ASG figures, Radullan Sahiron and Hatib Sawadjaan-the leader of the Philippine branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) global terror network. The firefight between the pro-ISIS ASG and the AFP forces was apparently the bloodiest in months. This encounter occurred in the midst of the worldwide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak that had not spared the southern Philippines as well. A government spokesperson acknowledged the strain on the armed forces, who were on "the forefront as the government's arm to prevent the spread of the dreaded disease on the one hand", while simultaneously engaged in "battling this terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group""--


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Original Sin? : Revising the Revisionist Critique of the 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore
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ISBN: 9789814620444 9789814620437 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore ISEAS Publishing

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After Bali
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ISBN: 1281872032 9786611872038 9812561749 9789812561749 9789812387158 9812387153 9781281872036 9789812387141 9812387145 9812387153 Year: 2003 Publisher: Singapore River Edge, N.J. Singapore World Scientific Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies

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This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations of the terrorist threat in the region, assesses the efficacy of the regional counter-terror response and suggests a more balanced and nuanced approach to combating the terror threat in Southeast Asia.


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Southeast Asian Affairs 2004

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