Kirsten Schulze

Dr Kirsten E. Schulze is Associate Professor in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She served as the Deputy Director of the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC) 2014-16, as the Head of the LSE Ideas Southeast Asia Programme 2012-14, and she chaired the Indonesian seminar series at Chatham House 2004-12. She is also a member of the LSE SEAC Steering Committee and the LSE Middle East Centre Management Committee.

Dr Schulze works on armed conflict, communal and separatist violence, as well as political Islam and militant jihadism in Indonesia and the Middle East. She has a DPhil from Oxford University (1994) and worked as a lecturer in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast (1994-1995) before coming to the LSE.

She has a DPhil from Oxford University (1994) and worked as a Lecturer in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast (1994-1995).

Expertise Details

Arab-Israeli Conflict; Indonesian History; Militant Islam; Ethnic and Communal Conflict; Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Southeast Asia

Publications

Dr Kirsten Schulze is currently writing a history of the Ambon Conflict.

Her publications include:

• 'From Afghanistan to Syria: How the global remains local for Indonesian militant Islamists' (with Julie Chernov Hwang) in Kirsten E. Schulze and Tom Smith (eds), Exporting Global Jihad: Volume Two: Critical Perspectives from Asia and North America, IB Tauris, London (2020);
• Exporting Global Jihad: Volume Two: Critical Perspectives from Asia and North America (co-edited with Tom Smith), IB Tauris, London (2020);
• 'Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the ISIS Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia' (with Joseph Chinyong Liow) Asian Security Vol 15, No 2, 122-139 (2019);
• Special Issue: Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: New Insights into Jihad in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (co-edited with Julie Chernov Hwang) Contemporary Southeast Asia (2019) Vol 41, No 1, 1-13 (April 2019);
• 'Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: New Insights into Jihad in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines' (with Julie Chernov Hwang) Contemporary Southeast Asia (2019) Vol 41, No 1, 1-13 (April 2019);
• 'From Ambon to Poso: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects of Local Jihad in Indonesia' Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol 41, No 1, 35-62 (April 2019);
• 'Why They Join: Pathways into Indonesian Jihadist Organisations' (with Julie Chernov Hwang) Terrorism and Political Violence Vol 30, No 6, 911-932 (2018);
• 'The Surabaya Bombings and the Evolution of the Jihadi Threat in Indonesia' CTC Sentinel, Vol 11, No 6, June/July( 2018);
• "The ‘ethnic’ in Indonesia’s communal conflicts: Violence in Poso, Ambon and West Kalimantan"Ethnic and Racial Studies (2017);
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Third and Expanded Edition, Seminar Studies in History, London Longman (November 2016);
• An International History of the 20th Century And Beyond, Third and Expanded Edition, with Antony Best, Jussi Hanhimaki, and Joe Maiolo, Routledge, London (2014);
• ‘Transforming the Aceh Conflict: From Military Solutions to Political Agreement’ in Amy L. Freedman (ed), Threatening the State: The Internationalisation of Domestic Disputes, Routledge (2013);
• ‘The 1948 War: The Battle over History’ in Joel Peters and David Newman, Israel-Palestine Handbook, Routledge (2012);
• ‘The AMM and the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Aceh, 2005-2006’ in Mary Martin and Mary Kaldor (eds), The European Union and Human Security: External Interventions and Missions(2010);
• ‘Israeli Crisis Decision-making: the 1982 and 2006 Lebanon Wars’, in Heidi Kurkinen (ed), Strategic Decision-making in Crisis and War, Series 2, No 42, National Defence University Finland (2010);
• ‘Point of Departure: The 1967 War and the Jews of Lebanon’, Israel Affairs, Vol 15, No 4, October (2009);
• ‘Indonesia - The Radicalisation of Islam’ in Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy and Tuncay Kardas (eds), The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines from al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah (2009);
• The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict, Second and Expanded Edition, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press (2008);
• ‘From the battlefield to the negotiating table: GAM and the Indonesian government, 1999-2005’, Asian Security (2007);
• The Free Aceh Movement (GAM): Anatomy of a Separatist Organisation (2004).