Jasmin Lorch
While the literature on democratic backsliding has not yet systematically investigated how civil society influences backsliding processes, it generally assumes that civil society organizations (CSOs) act as a counter to democratic backsliding. This article contests this assumption by showing that, d...
Jasmin Lorch
This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philipp
Jasmin Lorch
Abstract As of yet, Islamization by secular ruling parties has hardly been investigated in depth. To bridge this gap, the present article reviews the existing literature on Islamization, synthesizes the scattered existing theoretical insights on Islamization by secular actors and applies them to the...
Jasmin Lorch
As of yet, civil society support for military coups has hardly been investigated in depth. This article compares the attempted military coup in 2006 against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, which received support from prominent civil society leaders, to the collaboration between civil s...
Jasmin Lorch
Bangladesh continues to face a threat from Islamic terrorism. However, the drivers of this phenomenon remain under-studied. Research has traced terrorism in Bangladesh to wider processes of Islamization; a political context marked by conflict between the country’s two main political parties and by a...
Jasmin Lorch
Jasmin Lorch
From 1858 to 1947, the Muslim-majority region of East Bengal, which would later become Bangladesh, formed part of colonial British India. To strengthen their control over the local population, the British colonizers relied on the zamindars, feudal landlords belonging to the Hindu faith. In 1947, Eas...
Jasmin Lorch, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
By mid-2022, Bangladeshi security agencies had detained 119 women for their suspected involvement in terrorism, while another 11 had reportedly died during police raids of terrorist hideouts. However, knowledge about the involvement of Bangladeshi women in terrorism remains extremely limited. Agains...
Jasmin Lorch
After Bangladesh's return to democracy, the world's third-largest Muslim-majority country continues to be faced with tendencies of Islamist militancy. In the last two years, however, the government and the judiciary have achieved remarkable successes in three areas: The High Court has strengthened t...
Jasmin Lorch, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
In der gesamten süd- und südostasiatischen Region ist die zunehmende Beteiligung von Frauen am Terrorismus ein zunehmend auffälliges, aber wenig untersuchtes Phänomen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der Band anhand einzigartiger empirischer Daten, warum sich Frauen aus Bangladesch in dschihadisti...
Jasmin Lorch, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
In der gesamten süd- und südostasiatischen Region ist die zunehmende Beteiligung von Frauen am Terrorismus ein zunehmend auffälliges, aber wenig untersuchtes Phänomen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der Band anhand einzigartiger empirischer Daten, warum sich Frauen aus Bangladesch in dschihadisti...
Jasmin Lorch, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
In der gesamten süd- und südostasiatischen Region ist die zunehmende Beteiligung von Frauen am Terrorismus ein zunehmend auffälliges, aber wenig untersuchtes Phänomen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der Band anhand einzigartiger empirischer Daten, warum sich Frauen aus Bangladesch in dschihadisti...
Jasmin Lorch, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
In der gesamten süd- und südostasiatischen Region ist die zunehmende Beteiligung von Frauen am Terrorismus ein zunehmend auffälliges, aber wenig untersuchtes Phänomen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der Band anhand einzigartiger empirischer Daten, warum sich Frauen aus Bangladesch in dschihadisti...