Dr 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).

Teaching

Dr Kirsten Schulze teaches the following courses:

At undergraduate level:

HY203 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion

At Masters level:

HY435 - Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

HY441 - Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago

Supervision

Dr Schulze also supervises the following PhD students:

Research Student	Provisional Thesis Title
Sarah Ashraf	Of Military and Militancy: The rise of Pakistan’s Praetorian Military Structure and its Relationship with Militant Islam
Gullnaz Baig	Resuscitating Radicalism: The Politics of the Quest for Daulah Islamiyah
Anne Irfan	An International Palestine: UNRWA and Palestinian Nationalism in the Refugee Camps, 1967-82
Judith Jacob	Foreign Affairs: The Formation of the Jemaah Islamiyah and the Rise of the Global Jihadist Movement in Indonesia
Vinay Kumar Pathak	Kufar in the Sunni World: Defining Islam in Contemporary Indonesia
Nabila Ramdani	The Rise of the Egyptian Nationalist Movement: The case of the 1919 Revolution
Molly Tarhuni	To Follow

She supervised the following PhD students in the past:

Research Student	Provisional Thesis Title
Saad Eskander	Britain’s policy towards the Kurdish Question, 1915-1923 (1999)
Amos Nadan	The Arab rural economy in mandate Palestine, 1921-47: peasants under colonial rule (2001) co-supervised with Gareth Austin
Gary Sussmann	The referendum in F.W. de Klerk’s war of manoeuvre: an historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum (2003) co-supervised with Brendan O’Leary
Michael Kerr	Imposing power-sharing: Conflict and Coexistence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon (2004) co-supervised with Brendan O’Leary
Sajjan Gohel	Insurrection of the Ideologues: the evolution of Egyptian Islamist radical thought from Hassan al-Banna to Ayman al-Zawaheri (2009)
Jonathan Cummings	‘Muddling through’ hasbara: Israeli government communications policy, 1966-1975 (2012)
Daniel Strieff	The president and the peacemaker: Jimmy Carterand the domestic politics of Arab-Israeli diplomacy (2013)
Tobias Thiel	Citizen Revolt for a modern state: Yemen’s revolutionary moment, collective memory, and conscientious politics sur la longue duree (2013)
Laura Ryseck	The search for national identity in post-colonial, multi-communal states: the cases of Eritrea and Lebanon, 1941-1991 (2014)
Sara al-Qaiwani	Nationalism, revolution, and feminism: women in Egypt and Iran from 1880-1980 (2015) Co-supervised with Taylor Sherman
Corrin Varady	From peacemaking to ‘vigorous self-defence’: US foreign policy and the multinational force in Lebanon 1982-84 (2015)
Ranj Alaaldin	Iraq: The rise of the Shi’a, 1958-1980 (2015)
Vishnu Juwono	Eradicating Corruption in Indonesia: A History of Governance Reform, Anti-Corruption Initiatives, and Democratisation in Post-Suharto Indonesia (2016)

Teaching Awards

In June 2016, Dr Kirsten Schulze won an LSE Excellence in Education Award with other members of the Department. Designed to support the School’s aspiration of creating ‘a culture where excellence in teaching is valued and rewarded on a level with excellence in research’ (LSE Strategy 2020), the Excellence in Education Awards are made, on the recommendations of Heads of Department, to staff who have demonstrated outstanding teaching contribution and educational leadership in their departments.

Student Testimonials

Dr Kirsten Schulze has received praise for her teaching over the years. Here is one of her students' most recent testimonials:

 

Dr Kirsten Schulze's publications include:

• ‘The ‘ethnic’ in Indonesia’s communal conflicts: Violence in Poso, Ambon and West Kalimantan’ forthcoming in Ethnic and Racial Studies;
• 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).

She is currently writing a history of the Ambon Conflict.

Full list of publications on LSE Research Online

Her most recent presentations are:

• 'Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Communal Conflict, Separatism and Terrorism' presented at Ben Gurion University (Israel), March 2014;
• 'Indonesian-US Military Relations' presented at Birmingham University, January 2014;
• 'The Rohingya Conflict and its impact on Muslims in ASEAN: The case of Indonesia' presented at LSE Ideas/ASEAN UK Business Forum Conference, December 2013.

And recent Public Lectures have included:

• 'Gerakan Aceh Merdeka: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?', Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University;
• 'Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: A Strategic Analysis of the Aceh Conflict,'Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore;
• 'The Conflict in Aceh and Indonesia's Integrated Operation, 19 May 2003 - Present', US State Department;
• 'Aceh under Martial Law', Council on Foreign Relations; 'Towards an Islamic State? Indonesia since Suharto', LSE Asia Research Centre.