Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability

• Main Author: Smith, Paul J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2005; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Al-Qaeda; International crime; International Relations; Islam and politics; Islam and terrorism; Islam and terrorism - Asia, Southeastern; National security; Regional security; Southeast Asia; Terrorism; Transnational crime; Transnationalism; islamic; Abu Sayyaf; bin; Terrorist Groups; East Timor; Laskar Jundullah; Federal Bureau Of Investigation; Nawaf Al Hazmi; MILF Camp; Fathur Rohman Al Ghozi; Lanao Del Norte; ASG; Abdurajak Janjalani; Abu Jibril; Gam Member; sayyaf; Hashim Salamat; MILF Leader; Omar Al Faruq; Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia; laskar; laden; liberation; jihad; moro; MILF; abu; front; Khalid Al Mihdhar; Laskar Jihad; Jafar Umar Thalib; JI; Laskar Mujahideen; MNLF
• ISBN: 9780765614339; 0765614332; 9780765614346; 0765614340
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315700441

This timely work examines the scale and root causes of terrorism across Southeast Asia, including the role of al-Qaeda's ascendancy in the region. It begins with an overview of the analytical and theoretical framework for discussing the subject. Individual chapters then examine terrorist activities from both functional and country-specific perspectives. The book traces fundamental linkages between terrorism and security issues, such as illegal immigration, narcotics trafficking, and other criminal activity. In addition, it considers the issue of convergence - the growing connection between criminal groups and terrorism, and how this may facilitate future violence. Written by a range of experts in the field, the individual chapters reflect a variety of perspectives. The contributions fall into two broad categories - chapters that directly address terrorism (the groups, their ideologies, their modus operandi, their origins, and state responses to them); and chapters that address the "enabling environment" that exists in Southeast Asia (the role of transnational crime, porous borders, convergence between terrorism and crime).