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%T Terrorism in Bangladesh: Understanding a Complex Phenomenon %A Lorch, Jasmin %J Asian Survey %N 4 %P 778-802 %V 60 %D 2020 %K Islamischer Staat; al-Qaida %@ 0004-4687 %~ GIGA %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73647-7 %X 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 authoritarian governance; the institutional weakness of the Bangladeshi security and justice system; and international factors, such as the Afghanistan War, influences from the Gulf, and more recently the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as the increased interest of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Based on an analysis of the literature and interviews, I argue that while the growth of terrorism in Bangladesh has been a complex process in which all of these factors have interacted, different constellations of them have been decisive at different historical stages. %C USA %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info