Article published in The Pacific Review

Project leader, Prof. Isak Svensson and project co-worker Daniel Finnbogason have been published in the Area Studies journal The Pacific Review, a major platform for the study of the domestic policy making and international interactions of the countries of the Pacific Basin. "The missing jihad. Why have there been no jihadist civil wars in Southeast Asia?" provides an explanatory framework for the absence of jihadist civil wars in Southeast Asia since 1975, based on three inter-related factors: the lack of internationalization of religiously defined armed conflicts; political channels for Islamist political aspirations; and regional counterterrorism collaboration against violent jihadist groups. The article can be accessed at this link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2017.1325391