Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia's Foreign Policy

Transcending the State

Bibliographic Data

ID19948419
AuthorsDelphine Alles (0000-0001-5569-4546, Université Paris Cité, corresponding author), Rizal Sukma
Year2015
Publication date2015-12-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTransnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia's Foreign Policy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315764986
OpenAlexW4232974159
Open LibraryOL34607441M
ISBN9781315764986
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy. During this time, the archipelago attracted international attention as the most-populated Muslim-majority country in the world. As religious issues and actors have been increasingly taken into account in the analysis and conduct of international relations, particularly since the 9/11 events, Indonesia’s leaders have adapted to this new context. Taking a socio-historical perspective, this book examines the growing role of transnational Islamic Non-State Actors (NSAs) in post-authoritarian Indonesia and how it has affected the making of Indonesia’s foreign policy since the country embarked on the democratization process in 1998. It returns to the origins of the relationship between Islamic organisations and the Indonesian institutions in order to explain the current interactions between transnational Islamic actors and the country’s official foreign policies. The book considers for the first time the interactions between the "parallel diplomacy" undertaken by Indonesia’s Islamic NSAs and the country’s official foreign policy narrative and actions. It explains the adaptation of the state’s responses, and investigates the outcomes of those responses on the country’s international identity. Combining field-collected data and a theoretical reflexion, it offers a distanced analysis which deepens theoretical approaches on transnational religious actors. Providing original research in Asian Studies, while filling an empirical gap in international relations theory, this book will be of interest to scholars of Indonesian Studies, Islamic Studies, International Relations and Asian Politics

Archaeology · Foreign policy · Geography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Asian Studies and History · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Diplomatic relations · foreign relations · General · Government · Indonesia · International · International Relations · Islam and politics · Islam and state · Islam et État

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