Vedi R. Hadiz is Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and Director of its Indonesia Research Programme. An Indonesian national, he was recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010-14). Professor Hadiz received his Ph.D. from Murdoch University in 1996. He taught in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore from 2000 to 2010 before returning to Murdoch University. His other books include Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective (2010), Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia (1997) and, with Richard Robison, Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (2004). He is co-editor or editor of several books including Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia (2014) and Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia (2004). His articles have appeared in such journals as Development and Change, the Journal of Development Studies, Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Democratization, Critical Asian Studies, Indonesia, New Political Economy, and Historical Materialism. He has held senior visiting positions at universities and research centres in France, the Netherlands, Japan and Indonesia.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Islamic politics and the emergence of a new Islamic populism; 3. The genesis of Islamic populism: historical legacies; 4. Modernisation and the Cold War: paving the way; 5. Pathways of political failure: dissent from the fringe; 6. A study in political marginality: the Indonesian Darul Islam Movement and its heirs; 7. Navigating through democracy: a pathway to power?; 8. Navigating through neoliberalism: a pathway to power?; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'This book is path-breaking in terms of original conceptualization, sustained comparative analysis, and rich historical and sociological contextualization. Grounded in the best traditions of comparative historical sociology, in a deep understanding of global context, and in a solid and sophisticated understanding of Egypt, Indonesia, and Turkey, this book stands as a major contribution to the literature on Islam and politics. It sheds much new light on questions which have remained unanswered or obscured by the narrowness of mainstream social-science methods, analytical frameworks, and political preoccupations.' John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science