المؤلفون: Jones, David Martin, Smith, M. L. R.

المصدر: Terrorism & Political Violence; Apr-Jun2010, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p242-266, 25p

مصطلحات موضوعية: INTERNATIONAL relations, MUSLIMS, STUDY & teaching of terrorism, ISLAMIC fundamentalism, ISLAM, JIHAD, RELIGIOUS militants, CRITICAL thinking, ISLAMIC philosophy

الشركة/الكيان: HIZB al-Tahrir

مستخلص: The development of radical Islamist strategic thinking and the impact of post-modern, Western styles of thought upon the ideology that informs that strategy is often overlooked in conventional discussions of homegrown threats from jihadist militants. The propensity to discount the ideology informing both al-Qaeda and nominally non-violent Islamist movements with an analogous political philosophy like Hizb ut-Tahrir neglects the influence that critical Western modes of thought exercise upon their strategic thinking especially in the context of homegrown radicalization. Drawing selectively on non-liberal tendencies in the Western ideological canon has, in fact, endowed Khilaafaism (caliphism) with both a distinctive theoretical style and strategic practice. In particular, it derives intellectual sustenance from a post-Marxist Frankfurt School of critical thinking that in combination with an “English” School of international relations idealism holds that epistemological claims are socially determined, subjective, and serve the interests of dominant power relations. This critical, normative, and constructivist approach to international relations seeks not only to explain the historical emergence of the global order, but also to transcend it. This transformative agenda bears comparison with radical Islamist critiques of Western ontology and is of interest to Islamism's political and strategic thinking. In this regard, the relativist and critical approaches that have come to dominate the academic social sciences since the 1990s not only reflect a loss of faith in Western values in a way that undermines the prospects for a liberal and pluralist polity, but also, through a critical process facilitated by much international relations orthodoxy, promotes the strategic and ideological agenda of radical Islam. It is this curious strategic and ideological evolution that this paper explores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Jones, David Martin, Smith, Mike Lawrence

المصدر: Round Table; Jan2004, Vol. 93 Issue 373, p61-74, 14p

مصطلحات موضوعية: TERRORISM, NATIONAL security, ISLAM

مصطلحات جغرافية: SOUTHEAST Asia, INDONESIA, AUSTRALIA

مستخلص: This article examines the question of why a generation of Australian specialists in Southeast Asian security and political affairs failed to take seriously evolving threats to Australia’s security, in the form of radicalized Islam, that were developing across the region, most notably in Indonesia. These threats culminated in the Bali bombing of October 2002, in which many Australians perished. This analysis maintains that, despite the relative ease with which it was possible to trace contemporary political currents in Indonesia, political and security analysts in Australia overlooked the growth of Islamist extremism because of the concurrence of two political phenomena. The first was the official promotion of a regional destiny that called on Australia to "enmesh' itself in Southeast Asia. The second was the development of a fashionable post-structural academic orthodoxy which argued that threats were merely ideological constructs designed to serve a political agenda. These two factors combined to form an edifice of denial that even today continues to inhibit dispassionate assessment of Southeast Asia, with debilitating consequences for accurate threat perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Jones, David Martin, Smith, Mike Lawrence

المصدر: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism; Nov/Dec2002, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p343-356, 14p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ISLAM, SOUTHEAST Asian politics & government, TRADE associations, ECONOMIC development, ECONOMIC indicators, POLITICAL stability, LEGITIMACY of governments

مستخلص: This article evaluates the development of militant Islamic threats in Southeast Asia from the early 1990s onwards and its security implications for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The analysis contends that the extent of extremist Islamic infiltration of the region was obscured by governmental rhetoric, along with much Western opinion, which argued erroneously that ASEAN was following a unique developmental path based on shared regional values that had resulted in economic growth and political stability. However, by ignoring underlying religiously motivated tensions within and among its membership, and by refusing to countenance mature debate about them within their societies, ASEAN has succeeded only in incubating its potential nemesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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