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Page 1. Research Monographs on the Muslim World Series No 1, Paper No 5 February 2007 HUDSON INST... more Page 1. Research Monographs on the Muslim World Series No 1, Paper No 5 February 2007 HUDSON INSTITUTE Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World Islam and Polity in Indonesia: An Intriguing Case Study GIORA ELIRAZ ...
Until recently, Jakarta, the hub of Indonesian politics, was caught in the eye of a storm marked ... more Until recently, Jakarta, the hub of Indonesian politics, was caught in the eye of a storm marked by two recent events. The first involved Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese Christian Governor Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, who was charged in November 2016 and later convicted of a criminal act of blasphemy against Islam.[1] There followed three massive protests — organized by a coalition of hardline Islamic groups[2] and calling for the governor’s prosecution — that paralyzed the city center and threatened to drive a wedge between the country’s Muslim majority and its three million ethnic Chinese citizens.[3] The second event was Ahok’s crushing defeat in a bid for reelection in April following a divisive campaign that gave hardliners the national stage, while those moderate Islamic organizations with far larger followings appearing, according to some commentators, as having essentially remained on the sidelines.[4]
MELBOURNE, Australia: On November 11, 2019, Dr. Giora Eliraz—a prominent author and scholar who s... more MELBOURNE, Australia: On November 11, 2019, Dr. Giora Eliraz—a prominent author and scholar who specializes in Middle Eastern and Indonesian Islam—added his voice to a rapidly growing array of policy experts, journalists, government figures and other opinion leaders highlighting the significance of the global Humanitarian Islam movement and its campaign to recontextualize (i.e., reform) obsolete and problematic tenets of Islamic orthodoxy that enjoin religious hatred, supremacy and violence.
Asian and African studies, 1982
Asian and African studies, 1986
The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was established in January 2007 as an au... more The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was established in January 2007 as an autonomous School within the Nanyang Technological University. RSIS' mission is to be a leading research and graduate teaching institution in strategic and international affairs in the Asia-Pacific. To accomplish this mission, RSIS will: • Provide a rigorous professional graduate education in international affairs with a strong practical and area emphasis • Conduct policy-relevant research in national security, defence and strategic studies, diplomacy and international relations • Collaborate with like-minded schools of international affairs to form a global network of excellence Graduate Training in International Affairs RSIS offers an exacting graduate education in international affairs, taught by an international faculty of leading thinkers and practitioners. The teaching programme consists of the Master of Science (MSc) degrees in Strategic Studies, International Relations, International Political Economy and Asian Studies as well as The Nanyang MBA (International Studies) offered jointly with the Nanyang Business School. The graduate teaching is distinguished by their focus on the Asia-Pacific region, the professional practice of international affairs and the cultivation of academic depth. Over 150 students, the majority from abroad, are enrolled with the School. A small and select Ph.D. programme caters to students whose interests match those of specific faculty members.
Contents: Preface Acknowledgments The Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay- Indonesian World: ... more Contents: Preface Acknowledgments The Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay- Indonesian World: A Comparative Look at Egypt Muhammad Abduh's Heritage The Challenge of the Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay-Indonesian World -- The Reformist Motivation The Religious Dimension The Educational Dimension The Social and Political Dimension Challenging the Traditional World A Comparative Look at Egypt Historical Role and Impacts Islamic Modernism in the Malay-Indonesian World: Suggested Explanations Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia: Global and Local Contexts Radical Islamic Fundamentalism -- Ideology and Perception Transmission of Ideas and Ideological Interaction The Social and Political Dimension The Historical Perspective -- Dissemination of Islamic Ideas to Indonesia The War Cry of Jihad in Indonesia Summary and Reflections Radical Islamic Fundamentalism in Indonesia: The Distinctiveness of the Indonesian Context: Marginal or Significant? The Indonesian Context through the Fun...
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Routledge, 2023
This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1... more This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1990s. It shows how these interactions have increased in recent years, both at government level and for companies, entrepreneurs, academic institutions, religious groups, tourists, and NGOs. Likewise, it discusses the evolving shared interests between Israel and Asian states and demonstrates how Asian countries adopted sophisticated policies that allowed them to get closer to Israel without compromising their traditional support of the pro-Palestinian position. It also explores how Israel differentiates between different regions, circles of importance, and countries in Asia rather than sees Asia as a monolithic whole. This groundbreaking book concludes by assessing the overall state of relations at present and likely future developments.
TABLE OF CONTENT
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
Note on Translations and Conventions
1. A Passage to Asia: The Rise of Israeli-Asian Relations since the 1990s and Their Current Nature
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
I. Israel’s Asian Core Circle
2. Relationship under a Glass Ceiling: A Framework for China-Israel Relations
Yoram Evron
3. Chinese Investment in Israel under the Shadow of the United States: A Precarious Success?
Wang Yu
4. The Indo-Israeli Connection: From Years of Rejection to Growing Partnership
Shalom Salomon Wald and Evgenia Rozenfeld
5. India-Israel Security, Defense Ties, and the Iranian Dimension
Sujata Ashwarya
II. Israel’s Asian Secondary Circle
6. Israel-Japan Relations: A Recent Promise that Has Yet to Materialize
Rotem Kowner
7. Israel and the Two Koreas: Between Sentiments and Pragmatism
Guy Podoler
8. Israel-Taiwan Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Mor Sobol
9. Israel and Singapore: An Old-New Affinity Between Nations under Siege
Kevjn Lim and Mattia Tomba
III. Israel’s Asian Peripheral Circle
10. Central Asian Republics and Israel: Relations on a Firm but Low Fire
Zeev Levin
11. Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings
Chen Bram and Ran Shauli
12. Israel-Indonesia Relations: An Ongoing Saga of Unrecognition and Backroom Contacts
Giora Eliraz and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
13. The Role of Israel and Anti-Zionism in Malaysian Political and Cultural Life
Mary Ainslie
Conclusions
14. Asia's Place in 21st-Century Israel and Its Diplomatic Network: Conclusions and Implications
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENTS
"Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century is a groundbreaking book. It tells the rise of Israel from a state on the verge of isolation some three decades ago to a country with a complex network and extensive economic and military relations in contemporary Asia. Solidly grounded in a nuanced analysis of written sources and data in various languages as well as numerous interviews, this volume is going to be the standard work on this topic for years to come."
― P.R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and the author of India’s Israel Policy (Columbia University Press, 2010)
"Israel’s growing position in twenty-first-century Asia is a spectacular story. Two long-time observers of Israel-Asia relations, Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner offer an astute assessment and much elucidating analysis of Israel’s Asian strategy, its motives, and its success. As the first in two decades to bring all the parts of Israel’s diplomacy in Asia together, this judicious and deeply researched volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Israel’s foreign relations in general and its Asian ties in particular."
― Ambassador Nissim Ben-Shitrit, General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013–15) and former Ambassador to Japan (2007–13)
"Deeper levels of engagement between countries in Asia and the Middle East is a fascinating field of study, and this volume is a very welcome addition to the literature. Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner have led a diverse set of contributors to cover Israel’s most consequential Asian bilateral relationships as well as issues that will shape the trajectory of Israel-Asia ties. Highly recommended!"
― Jonathan Fulton is Professor of Political Science at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, the author of China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2019), and the editor of Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations (Routledge, 2022)
"In the last three decades, some far-reaching changes have occurred in Asia which enhanced Israel’s diplomatic, strategic, and economic relations with the continent’s main actors. Edited by two leading Israeli scholars of Asian affairs, this volume offers a wide range of chapters which explore in thoughtful and comprehensive ways the dramatic changes which took place in Israel’s ties with various Asian countries. This book is a must reading for scholars, students, and practitioners who are interested in the diplomacy and economics of Asia and Israel. Moreover, it is also a very useful book for anyone interested more generally in understanding the sources and processes of important changes in the diplomatic and economic relations among states."
― Benny Miller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the author of States, Nations, and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Page 1. Research Monographs on the Muslim World Series No 1, Paper No 5 February 2007 HUDSON INST... more Page 1. Research Monographs on the Muslim World Series No 1, Paper No 5 February 2007 HUDSON INSTITUTE Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World Islam and Polity in Indonesia: An Intriguing Case Study GIORA ELIRAZ ...
Until recently, Jakarta, the hub of Indonesian politics, was caught in the eye of a storm marked ... more Until recently, Jakarta, the hub of Indonesian politics, was caught in the eye of a storm marked by two recent events. The first involved Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese Christian Governor Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, who was charged in November 2016 and later convicted of a criminal act of blasphemy against Islam.[1] There followed three massive protests — organized by a coalition of hardline Islamic groups[2] and calling for the governor’s prosecution — that paralyzed the city center and threatened to drive a wedge between the country’s Muslim majority and its three million ethnic Chinese citizens.[3] The second event was Ahok’s crushing defeat in a bid for reelection in April following a divisive campaign that gave hardliners the national stage, while those moderate Islamic organizations with far larger followings appearing, according to some commentators, as having essentially remained on the sidelines.[4]
MELBOURNE, Australia: On November 11, 2019, Dr. Giora Eliraz—a prominent author and scholar who s... more MELBOURNE, Australia: On November 11, 2019, Dr. Giora Eliraz—a prominent author and scholar who specializes in Middle Eastern and Indonesian Islam—added his voice to a rapidly growing array of policy experts, journalists, government figures and other opinion leaders highlighting the significance of the global Humanitarian Islam movement and its campaign to recontextualize (i.e., reform) obsolete and problematic tenets of Islamic orthodoxy that enjoin religious hatred, supremacy and violence.
Asian and African studies, 1982
Asian and African studies, 1986
The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was established in January 2007 as an au... more The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was established in January 2007 as an autonomous School within the Nanyang Technological University. RSIS' mission is to be a leading research and graduate teaching institution in strategic and international affairs in the Asia-Pacific. To accomplish this mission, RSIS will: • Provide a rigorous professional graduate education in international affairs with a strong practical and area emphasis • Conduct policy-relevant research in national security, defence and strategic studies, diplomacy and international relations • Collaborate with like-minded schools of international affairs to form a global network of excellence Graduate Training in International Affairs RSIS offers an exacting graduate education in international affairs, taught by an international faculty of leading thinkers and practitioners. The teaching programme consists of the Master of Science (MSc) degrees in Strategic Studies, International Relations, International Political Economy and Asian Studies as well as The Nanyang MBA (International Studies) offered jointly with the Nanyang Business School. The graduate teaching is distinguished by their focus on the Asia-Pacific region, the professional practice of international affairs and the cultivation of academic depth. Over 150 students, the majority from abroad, are enrolled with the School. A small and select Ph.D. programme caters to students whose interests match those of specific faculty members.
Contents: Preface Acknowledgments The Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay- Indonesian World: ... more Contents: Preface Acknowledgments The Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay- Indonesian World: A Comparative Look at Egypt Muhammad Abduh's Heritage The Challenge of the Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay-Indonesian World -- The Reformist Motivation The Religious Dimension The Educational Dimension The Social and Political Dimension Challenging the Traditional World A Comparative Look at Egypt Historical Role and Impacts Islamic Modernism in the Malay-Indonesian World: Suggested Explanations Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia: Global and Local Contexts Radical Islamic Fundamentalism -- Ideology and Perception Transmission of Ideas and Ideological Interaction The Social and Political Dimension The Historical Perspective -- Dissemination of Islamic Ideas to Indonesia The War Cry of Jihad in Indonesia Summary and Reflections Radical Islamic Fundamentalism in Indonesia: The Distinctiveness of the Indonesian Context: Marginal or Significant? The Indonesian Context through the Fun...
Routledge, 2023
This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1... more This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1990s. It shows how these interactions have increased in recent years, both at government level and for companies, entrepreneurs, academic institutions, religious groups, tourists, and NGOs. Likewise, it discusses the evolving shared interests between Israel and Asian states and demonstrates how Asian countries adopted sophisticated policies that allowed them to get closer to Israel without compromising their traditional support of the pro-Palestinian position. It also explores how Israel differentiates between different regions, circles of importance, and countries in Asia rather than sees Asia as a monolithic whole. This groundbreaking book concludes by assessing the overall state of relations at present and likely future developments.
TABLE OF CONTENT
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
Note on Translations and Conventions
1. A Passage to Asia: The Rise of Israeli-Asian Relations since the 1990s and Their Current Nature
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
I. Israel’s Asian Core Circle
2. Relationship under a Glass Ceiling: A Framework for China-Israel Relations
Yoram Evron
3. Chinese Investment in Israel under the Shadow of the United States: A Precarious Success?
Wang Yu
4. The Indo-Israeli Connection: From Years of Rejection to Growing Partnership
Shalom Salomon Wald and Evgenia Rozenfeld
5. India-Israel Security, Defense Ties, and the Iranian Dimension
Sujata Ashwarya
II. Israel’s Asian Secondary Circle
6. Israel-Japan Relations: A Recent Promise that Has Yet to Materialize
Rotem Kowner
7. Israel and the Two Koreas: Between Sentiments and Pragmatism
Guy Podoler
8. Israel-Taiwan Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Mor Sobol
9. Israel and Singapore: An Old-New Affinity Between Nations under Siege
Kevjn Lim and Mattia Tomba
III. Israel’s Asian Peripheral Circle
10. Central Asian Republics and Israel: Relations on a Firm but Low Fire
Zeev Levin
11. Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings
Chen Bram and Ran Shauli
12. Israel-Indonesia Relations: An Ongoing Saga of Unrecognition and Backroom Contacts
Giora Eliraz and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
13. The Role of Israel and Anti-Zionism in Malaysian Political and Cultural Life
Mary Ainslie
Conclusions
14. Asia's Place in 21st-Century Israel and Its Diplomatic Network: Conclusions and Implications
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENTS
"Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century is a groundbreaking book. It tells the rise of Israel from a state on the verge of isolation some three decades ago to a country with a complex network and extensive economic and military relations in contemporary Asia. Solidly grounded in a nuanced analysis of written sources and data in various languages as well as numerous interviews, this volume is going to be the standard work on this topic for years to come."
― P.R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and the author of India’s Israel Policy (Columbia University Press, 2010)
"Israel’s growing position in twenty-first-century Asia is a spectacular story. Two long-time observers of Israel-Asia relations, Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner offer an astute assessment and much elucidating analysis of Israel’s Asian strategy, its motives, and its success. As the first in two decades to bring all the parts of Israel’s diplomacy in Asia together, this judicious and deeply researched volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Israel’s foreign relations in general and its Asian ties in particular."
― Ambassador Nissim Ben-Shitrit, General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013–15) and former Ambassador to Japan (2007–13)
"Deeper levels of engagement between countries in Asia and the Middle East is a fascinating field of study, and this volume is a very welcome addition to the literature. Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner have led a diverse set of contributors to cover Israel’s most consequential Asian bilateral relationships as well as issues that will shape the trajectory of Israel-Asia ties. Highly recommended!"
― Jonathan Fulton is Professor of Political Science at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, the author of China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2019), and the editor of Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations (Routledge, 2022)
"In the last three decades, some far-reaching changes have occurred in Asia which enhanced Israel’s diplomatic, strategic, and economic relations with the continent’s main actors. Edited by two leading Israeli scholars of Asian affairs, this volume offers a wide range of chapters which explore in thoughtful and comprehensive ways the dramatic changes which took place in Israel’s ties with various Asian countries. This book is a must reading for scholars, students, and practitioners who are interested in the diplomacy and economics of Asia and Israel. Moreover, it is also a very useful book for anyone interested more generally in understanding the sources and processes of important changes in the diplomatic and economic relations among states."
― Benny Miller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the author of States, Nations, and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump (University of Chicago Press, 2020)