Ideology, Networks and Political Religion: Structure and Agency in Jemaah Islamiah's Small World
It has become orthodoxy in terrorism studies that the survival or durability of the organization or network is central to the terrorist mission. From this perspective, its ideology or political religion is subordinated to the core purpose of the group, which is understood to be survival for its own...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2012
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Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2012, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 473-493 |
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| Summary: | It has become orthodoxy in terrorism studies that the survival or durability of the organization or network is central to the terrorist mission. From this perspective, its ideology or political religion is subordinated to the core purpose of the group, which is understood to be survival for its own sake. Through a case study that examines the evolution, development and degradation of the Southeast Asian jihadist organization Jemaah Islamiah, this paper tests such a hypothesis. It finds, in contrast to organizational and network theory, that the group mission is not particularly flexible and that the crucial explanatory variable that affecting both the recourse to violence and attempts to counter it, lies in the ideological agenda that the theory dismisses. |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics, religion & ideology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2012.725664 |