Dynamics of Violent Extremism in South Asia: Nexus Between State Fragility and Extremism

ISBN-13: 9789811974045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 205 str.

Shafi MD Mostofa

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted dimensions of violent extremist groups in South Asia, attending especially to the relationships between the local and regional forces influencing their emergence and activities. In addition, research in the book shows how political, security-sensitive events and processes are framed, and the factors responsible for such framing. Similarly, it discusses prevalent discourses on anti-violent extremism policy and the on-the-ground militarized preventive/reactive interventions they guide, which are inspired by ideologies that increasingly reflect controversial understandings of the experiences of people within conditions of state fragility. In doing so, the book balances attention to local conditions that frame the rise and fall, or persistency, of incidences of violent extremism. The systems-based ecological framing of issues in the book is influenced by a concern for the broader questions of securitization, global governance, poverty, (under)development, and armed conflicts in South Asia.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The nexus between state fragility and extremism in South Asia.- Chapter 2. Differing Trajectories of Salafism in India and Pakistan: State Fragility, Identity and Violence.- Chapter 3. State Fragility and Violent Extremism in Bangladesh.- Chapter 4. State Fragility and Dynamism of Islamist Extremism in Bangladesh: Recruitment Strategies, Women and Prison Radicalization, and Future Trajectories.- Chapter 5. State Fragility and Hindu Extremism in India: An Analysis of the Role of the Bharatiya Janata Party.- Chapter 6. Fragile State Policy and the Rise of Muslim Extremism in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 7. Fragile Peace, Violent Extremism, and Feminist Solutions in Nepal.- Chapter 8. State Fragility, Violent Extremism, and Future of Afghanistan.- Chapter 9. State Fragility and the Challenge of Violent Extremism in Pakistan.

O autorze

Shafi Md Mostofa (PhD) is a theologian and security studies scholar with broad interests in political Islam, authoritarianism, modern South Asian history and politics, and international relations and clash of civilizations. He is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Arts and an Adjunct Lecturer of the University of New England, Australia.

Blurb

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted dimensions of violent extremist groups in South Asia, attending especially to the relationships between the local and regional forces influencing their emergence and activities. In addition, research in the book shows how political, security-sensitive events and processes are framed, and the factors responsible for such framing. Similarly, it discusses prevalent discourses on anti-violent extremism policy and the on-the-ground militarized preventive/reactive interventions they guide, which are inspired by ideologies that increasingly reflect controversial understandings of the experiences of people within conditions of state fragility. In doing so, the book balances attention to local conditions that frame the rise and fall, or persistency, of incidences of violent extremism. The systems-based ecological framing of issues in the book is influenced by a concern for the broader questions of securitization, global governance, poverty, (under)development, and armed conflicts in South Asia.

Shafi Md Mostofa (Ph.D.) is a theologian and security studies scholar with broad interests in political Islam, authoritarianism, modern South Asian history and politics, and international relations and clash of civilizations. He is an associate professor of World Religions and Culture at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Arts and an adjunct lecturer of the University of New England, Australia.