Dr Kirsten Schulze

Dr Kirsten Schulze is Associate Professor at the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, she was Head of the Southeast Asia Programme at LSE IDEAS.

From 2005-2012 she ran the Indonesia Seminar as part of the Chatham House Asia Program. Dr Schulze has conducted research on armed conflicts in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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

Research Interests

Dr. Schulze has published widely on Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and speaks Indonesian, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, German, and French.  Her current research concentrates on Indonesia, with particular emphasis on:

• Islamist movements in Indonesia.
• Counter-terrorism and deradicalisation in Indonesia.
• Insurgency and counter-insurgency strategies in Indonesia.
• Security sector reform in Indonesia.
• Ethnic conflict and conflict regulation in Southeast Asia.
• Nationalism, identity-formation, collective memory, and historical narrative.

 

Select Publications

‘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);

• ‘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);
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Second and Expanded Edition, Seminar Studies in History (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).

She is currently writing a history of the Ambon Conflict.

Full list of publications on LSE Research Online