Price, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0445-0549 (2022) The long way round: how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and Indonesia’s military action in Aceh. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15 (4). pp. 846-866. ISSN 1753-9161
Abstract
This article explores how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and domestic military action in the case of Indonesia’s armed conflict with separatist group, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM, 2003–05). It does so by examining how the Indonesian government justified their military operation to Australian and US audiences. I offer two findings on the role of the war on terror in the politics of international legitimacy. First, context mediated how Indonesian leaders used the language of terror to legitimise their conflict to foreign audiences. Indonesian leaders were not able to hail GAM into the role of “terrorist”, but they were able to invoke the spectre of terrorist hotspots by portraying GAM as a threat to regional stability. Second, Indonesia’s justifications show that they perceived an obligation to other rules and norms. While the war on terror was influential, it did not monopolise the politics of international legitimacy. The article adopts a constructivist approach to legitimacy to provide a theoretically informed account of these dynamics.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Critical Studies on Terrorism. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | terrorism; legitimacy; civil war; Indonesia; justification; insecurity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2022 13:44 |
Last Modified: | 26 Dec 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17539153.2022.2089398 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188381 |