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About the Contributors
Dr. Greg Barton joined Monash University as the Herb Feith Research Professor
for the Study of Indonesia in January 2007, based in the school of Political and
Social Inquiry (PSI) in the Faculty of Arts. Prior to that he had worked as an
Associate Professor at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in
Honolulu, Hawaii, where he continues to teach counterterrorism courses as an
adjunct professor, and before that at Deakin University. At Monash Greg is
Director of the Centre for Islam and the Modern World
(www.arts.monash.edu.au/politics/cimow) and Deputy UNESCO Chair in
Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific. He teaches
undergraduate and postgraduate units on the politics of the Muslim world. He
also teaches and researches in the field of counterterrorism and has a deep
interest in comparative politics. Greg has written or edited five books and
published dozens of refereed articles and book chapters in this field. His
biography of Abdurrahman Wahid, Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: A
View From The Inside, was published in 2002; Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah
and the Soul of Islam, was published in 2004. He is currently working on two
other book projects: Progressive Islamic thought and social movements in
Indonesia and Turkey and Islam's Other Nation: Faith in Democratic Indonesia.
Jarret Brachman is a specialist on jihadist thought and propaganda. He routinely
advises the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies on those
issues. Brachman also directs a new program in counterterrorism and security
policy at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation
Institute. Brachman has testified before the House Armed Services Committee,
spoken before the British House of Lords and his research is regularly cited in
international press. His recent book, Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice, was
published in 2008 by Routledge Press.
Professor De Castro is currently the U.S. State Department ASEAN Research
Fellow from the Philippines and is based in Arizona State University as an
adjunct faculty of the Political Science Department (January to July 2009). He is
also on the faculty of the International Studies Department (on sabbatical leave)
and the holder of the Dr. Aurelio Calderon Professorial Chair of Philippine-
American Relations. He received his Ph.D. from the Government and
International Studies Department of the University of South Carolina as a
Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of several articles on international relations
and security that have been published in a number of scholarly journals and
edited books in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan,
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