Extremist Islam - Recognition and Response in Southeast Asia

This book shines a light on specific beliefs, behaviors, and policies that promote extremist terrorist activity stemming from violent interpretations of Islam in Southeast Asia. Ultimately, this book offers a comprehensive strategy for effectively addressing these challenges.

About the author

Kumar Ramakrishna is the Provost's Chair in National Security Studies and Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has spoken on counterterrorism before local and international audiences, published in numerous prestigious journals, and has been described by Perspectives on Terrorism as "one of Southeast Asia's leading counterterrorism experts" for his research on understanding, preventing, and countering violent extremism in Southeast Asia.

Summary

This book shines a light on specific beliefs, behaviors, and policies that promote extremist terrorist activity stemming from violent interpretations of Islam in Southeast Asia. Ultimately, this book offers a comprehensive strategy for effectively addressing these challenges.

Additional text

This book provides a very comprehensive and cogent analysis of religious extremism, with a focus on disruptive challenges by Salafist groups and regional states' responses to them in Southeast Asia. Its diagnoses of the issues by a very seasoned scholar in the field is highly illuminating and penetrating. The book deserves to be read and its findings applied very widely.

Product details

• Authors: Ramakrishna , Kumar Ramakrishna, Kumar (Associate Professor Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna Kumar
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780197610978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761097-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, Islamic Studies, Social, group or collective psychology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities