Publication

This issue looks at political violence and terrorism in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Islamic terrorism. The articles focus on: 1) assessing extremism and the hierarchy of the Salafi-jihadist doctrine; 2) the attempts by the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to maintain the upper hand in the jihadist forums and win over the online extremist community; and 3) the correlation between the strategy of progression pursued by Al Qaeda and its regional affiliates with Mao Zedong’s “Three Stages of Revolutionary Warfare”.