Professor Greg Barton - Publications
Refereed Publications
Sole-authored Academic Books
Barton, Greg (2004) Indonesia’s Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and radical Islamism, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004. [also published in 2005 as: Barton, Greg (2005) Jemaah Islamiyah: Radical Islamism in Indonesia, Singapore: Singapore University Press.]
Barton, Greg 2003 Gus Dur: the Authorized Biography of Abdurrahman Wahid, Yogyakarta: LKiS, pp. 516. [Note: this 2003 book is the Indonesia language version of: Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President a view from inside].
Barton, Greg (2002) Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President – a view from the inside, Sydney and Honolulu: UNSW Press and University of Hawaii Press, pp. 414.
Barton, Greg (1999) Gagasan Islam Liberal: Telaah terhadap Tulisan-tulisan Nurcholish Madjid, Djohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahib dan Abdurrahman Wahid, 1968-80, [Liberal Islamic Thought: A study of the writing of Nurcholish Madjid, Djohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahid and Abdurrahman Wahid] Jakarta: Paramadina, 609 pp.
Edited Academic Books
Barton, Greg and Fealy, Greg (eds) (1996) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute.
Barton, Greg and Kingsbury, Damien (eds) (1994) Difference and Tolerance: Human Rights Issues in Southeast Asia, Geelong: Deakin University Press.
Chapters in edited books
Barton, Greg. 2010. ‘Indonesia’ in Barry Rubin (ed.) Guide to Islamist Movements, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Barton, Greg. 2010. 'Raising expectations: the Wahid presidency, and Indonesia's democratic transition' in Reuter, Thomas (ed), The return to constitutional democracy in Indonesia, Monash University Press, Caulfield pp. 23-36.
Barton, Greg. 2010. [In Press] ‘BJ Habibie: an unlikely engineer of reform’, in Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Anwar Ibrahim, and Bridget. Welsh, eds, Reflections on the Habibie Era, National University of Singapore Press.
Barton, Greg. 2010. [forthcoming], ‘Chapter 7: Progressive Islamic Thought and Civil Society in Turkey and Indonesia’, in Dale Eickleman (ed.) Islam in the Modern World: The Gülen Movement, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Barton, Greg. 2009. 'The historical development of Jihadi Islamist thought in Indonesia', Scott Helfstein (ed.) Radical Islamic Ideology in Southeast Asia, New York: The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (www.ctc.usma.edu/publications/Southeast%20Asia%20Report.pdf)
Barton, Greg. 2008. ‘Indonesia’s Year of Living Normally: Taking the Long View on Indonesia’s Progress, in Daljit Singh and Tin Maung Maung Than (eds) Southeast Asia Affairs 2008, Singapore: ISEAS.Barton, Greg. 2007. ‘Preaching by example and learning for life: understanding the Gulen hizmet in the global context of religious philanthropy and civil religion’, in Ihsan Yilmaz et. al. (eds.) Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement, International Refereed Conference Proceedings, London, UK 25-27 October 2007, pp. 650-62
Barton, Greg. 2006. “Turkey’s Gulen hizmet and Indonesia’s neo-modernist NGOs; remarkable examples of progressive Islamic thought and civil society activism in the Muslim world”, in Fethi Mansouri and Shahram Akbarzadeh (eds), Political Islam and Human Security, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, p.140-160
Barton, Greg. 2006. “Islam and Democratic Transition in Indonesia”, chapter 9, in Deborah A. Brown and Tun-jen Cheng (eds), Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 221-41.
Barton, Greg. 2006. 'Australia and Globalised Islam', in Fethi Mansouri (ed.) Australia and the Middle East: A Frontline Relationship, London/New York: IB Tauris Publishers, pp. 101-122.
Barton, Greg. 2005. “Making sense of Jemaah Islamiyah terrorism and radical Islamism in Indonesia” in Shahram Akbarzadeh and Samina Yasmeen (eds), Islam and the West: reflections from Australia, UNSW Press, pp. 114-31.
Barton, Greg. 2005. “Islam, Islamism and politics in Indonesia”, chapter 3 in Damien Kingsbury (ed.) Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Singapore and Melbourne: ISEAS and Monash Asia Institute, pp. 75-103.
Barton, Greg. 2003a. “The Wahid Presidency in Context: Regime Change, Inflated Expectations, Islam and the Promise of Democracy”, in Thang D. Nguyen and Frank-Jurgen Richter (eds), Indonesia Matters: Diversity, Unity, and Stability in Fragile Times, Singapore: Times Editions, pp. 28-38.
Barton, Greg. 2003b. “Pengantar: Islam, Islamism dan Politik di Indonesia” in Zainal Abidin Amir, Peta Islam Politik Pasca-Soeharto, Jakarta: LP3ES, pp. xv-xxxiii. [“Introduction: Islam, Islamism and Politics in Indonesia” in Zainal Abidin Amir, A Map of Islamic Politics in the Post-Soeharto Era]
Barton, Greg. 2002a. 'Islam, politics and regime change in Wahid's Indonesia' in Julian M. Weiss (ed) Tigers' Roar: Asia's Recovery And Its Impact, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Barton, Greg. 2002b. 'Islam and Politics in the New Indonesia', in Jason F Issacson and Colin Rubenstein (eds) Islam in Asia: Changing Political Realities, New Jersey, Transaction Press, p. 1-94.
Barton, Greg. 2002c. 'Islam and Politics in Malaysia', in Jason F Issacson and Colin Rubenstein (eds) Islam in Asia: Changing Political Realities, New Jersey, Transaction Press, p. 95-164.
Barton, Greg. 2001a. 'The Prospects for Islam', in Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith (eds) Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, p. 244-255.
Barton, Greg. 2001b. 'President Wahid-a realist-idealist?', in Damien Kingsbury and Arief Budiman (eds), Indonesia: the Uncertain Transition, Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Publishing, p. 312-28.
Barton, Greg. 2001c. 'Evaluating the Wahid presidency: A response to Marcus Mietzner's evaluation', in Damien Kingsbury and Arief Budiman (eds), Indonesia: the Uncertain Transition, Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Publishing, p. 349-59.
Barton, Greg. 2001d. 'A fair measure - assessing President Wahid's first year as Indonesia embarks on the long road of regime-change,' in Damien Kingsbury (ed) The Abdurrahman Wahid Government's First Year: An Evaluation, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, p. 33-55.
Barton, Greg. 2000a. 'Political and social change the case of Indonesia' in Andrew Vandenberg (ed.) Politics and Democracy, London: Macmillan.
Barton, Greg. 2000b. 'Abdurrahman Wahid dan Toleransi Keberagamaan’ [Abdurrahman Wahid and religious tolerance'] in Ahmad Suaedy and Ulil Abshar Abdalla (eds), Gila Gus Dur: Wacana Pembaca Abdurrahman Wahid, Yogyakarta, LKiS, 2000, pp. 84-120.
Barton, Greg. 1999. 'Understanding Abdurrahman Wahid?', in M. Saleh Isre (ed.), Prisma Pemikiran Gus Dur, Yogyakarta: LKiS, pp. xx-xlv.
Barton, Greg. 1997. The Origins of Islamic Liberalism in Indonesia and its Contribution to Democratisation', Democracy in Asia, New York, 1997: St Martins Press, pp. 427-51.
Barton, Greg. 1996a. The Liberal, Progressive Roots of Abdurrahman Wahid’s Thought’ in Greg Barton and Greg Fealy (eds) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, pp. 190-226.
Barton, Greg. 1996b. Islam, Pancasila and the Middle Path of Tawassuth: the thought of Achmad Siddiq’ in Greg Barton and Greg Fealy (eds) Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, pp. 110-28.
Barton, Greg. 1994. 'The impact of Islamic neo-Modernism on Indonesian Islamic thought: The emergence of a new pluralism', in David Bourchier and John Legge (eds) Indonesian Democracy: 1950s and 1990s, Clayton: Monash University, pp.143-150.
Barton, Greg. 1991. The International Context of the Emergence of Islamic Neo Modernism in Indonesia', in M.C. Ricklefs (ed.) Islam in the Indonesian Social Context, Clayton: CSEAS Monash University, pp. 69-82.
Academic articles in refereed journals
Barton, Greg, 'Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy, and Islam', Politics and Policy, Special Issue - June 2010 - The Search for Legitimacy in Asia, Wiley and Blackwell, pp. 471-96
Barton, Greg, 2006, “A response to Ian Markham” in Conversations in Religion & Theology Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 87 - May 2006, pp. 92-7.
Barton, Greg and Rubenstein, Colin (2005) “Israel and Indonesia: A Relationship in Waiting, Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2005, Volume 17, Numbers 1&2, pp. 157-170.
Barton, Greg, 2001, “Indonesia’s Difficult Transition and President Abdurrahman Wahid”, Pacifica Review: Peace, Security and Global Change, Vol. 13, No. 3, October 2001, p.273-81
Barton, Greg,1999, with Andree Feillard, ‘Nahdlatul Ulama, Abdurrahman Wahid and Reformation: What Does NU’s Nov 1997 National Gathering Tell Us?’, Studia Islamika, Vol 6, No 1, June 1999, pp.1-40.
Barton, Greg, 1997, ’Indonesia’s Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid as Intellectual Ulama: The Meeting of Islamic Traditionalism and Modernism in neo-Modernist thought’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 8, No. 3, Oct 1997, pp. 323-350.
Barton, Greg, 1995, 'Neo-Modernism: a Vital Synthesis of Traditionalism and Modernism in Indonesian Islam', Studia Islamika, Vol 2 No 3 1995, pp.1-75.
Essays and other articles
Barton, Greg (2010) review of Irfan Ahmad’s Islamism and Democracy in India, (Princeton University Press) in Australian Book Review
Barton, Greg (2010) review of Nader Hashemi’s Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Towards a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies, (Oxford University Press) in Biblio (Delhi), Spevial Edition on India
Barton, Greg (2010) “The Legacy of Gus Dur: Indonesia’s Gentle Muslim Conqueror’, Focus On, Oxford Islamic Studies Online [www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/Public/focus.html]
Barton, Greg (2009) “Defuse their anger”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 5 August 2009, p. 7.
Barton, Greg (2009) “Democracy in Indonesia (Comment)”, The Monthly, Melbourne, July 2009, No 47
Barton, Greg (2009) “A response to Rachel Sharon-Krespin’s ‘Fethullah Gulen’s Grand Ambition: Turkey’s Islamist Danger’”, Today’s Zaman, Istanbul, 10 February 2009
Barton, Greg (2007) “Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Global Peace and the Inter-religious Dialogue” Address at the Official Opening Ceremony of the Fethullah Gulen Chair In The Study Of Islam & Muslim-Catholic Relations, held at the Australian Catholic University on 23 November 2007
http://www.intercultural.org.au/events_2007/gulen_chair/index.htmBarton, Greg (2007) “What did we lose when we took Dr Haneef's visa away?
Countering terrorism means winning hearts and minds”, Australian Policy Online, Comments and Analysis, 18 July 2007 http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=168027Barton, Greg (2007) “The end of JI?”, ABC News Opinion Tuesday 19 June 2007
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/19/1954984.htmAkbarzadeh, Shahram and Barton, Greg (2007) “Islam: Fear and loathing diminishes us all”, Australian Policy Online, Comments and Analysis, 6 March 2007
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/comment_results.chtml?filename_num=140154Barton, Greg (2006) “Slow Development for the Developing-8”, The Diplomat, July 2006.
Barton, Greg (2005) “Thinking Out Loud: Islam, civil society and democracy in Indonesia”, Democracy @large, Vol. 2, No. 1., Washington D.C.: IFES.
Barton, Greg (2005) “Civil Society and Islam: why Indonesia is different”, Democracy at Large, Summer, 2005.
Barton, Greg (In Press) “Democracy and Islam in Indonesia”, The Review, October 2005.
Barton, Greg (2005), “Peaceful Islam and Nurcholish’s lasting legacy”, Opinion, The Jakarta Post, 6 September 2005.
Barton, Greg (2005) “Gus Dur / Kiai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid”, in The Encyclopedia of the Developing World, New York: Routledge Reference.
Barton, Greg (2005) “Islam and our common humanity in the wake of the Tsunami”, Opinion, The Australian, 7 January 2005.
Barton, Greg (2004) “Sally Neighbour, In the Shadow of Swords: on the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia”, (Sydney: Harper Collins, 2004), Book Review, Sydney Morning Herald, December 2004
Barton, Greg (2004), “No time for complacency”, Opinion, Courier Mail, Saturday 18 December 2004.
Barton, Greg (2004) “So far, so good for the great hope of Indonesian Democracy”, Opinion, The Age, Friday 22 October 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) “Banking on SBY’s Moral Capital”, The Canberra Times, Friday 24 September 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) “Good news, bad news, in the wake of the Jakarta bombing”, The Courier Mail, Friday 17 September 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) “Could do better with more effort: Australia is too ignorant of Asia to make its mark there”, Australian Financial Review, Education, Viewpoint, Monday 23 August, p. 36.
Barton, Greg (2004) “Indonesia: democratic uncertainty and the desire for change”, The Review, August 2004
Barton, Greg (2004) “Good news as people power rears its head”, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 2004.
Barton, Greg (2004) “Indonesia; two steps forward, one step backward”, The Review, May 2004
Barton, Greg (2003) “Respect, Mere Tolerance and the Foundations for Genuine Muslim-Christian Dialog between Muslims and Christians”, in Traveling Together Beyond Dialogue, Melbourne: Australian Intercultural Foundation.
Barton, Greg, “Indonesia’s Megawati”, The Diplomat, December 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Bali One Year On: Megawati in Denial Over Extent of JI”, Opinion, Australian Financial Review, Monday, October 6, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Megawati in denial over extent of JI”, Australian Financial Review, October 5, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “The real risk is complacency”, Opinion, Australian Financial Review, October 5, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Taking stock of terrorism”, Opinion, The Age, September 9, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Bashir verdict beggars belief”, Opinion, The Courier Mail (Brisbane, Australia), September 4, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Bashir's slap over wrist shows some fish too big to fry”, Opinion, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 4, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Beware Amrozi's death sentence”, Opinion, The Age, August 12, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “The good, bad and chilling news on Jemaah Islamiah”, Opinion, The Age, August 8, 2003.
Barton, Greg, “2002 in Review - Indonesian Islam and the emergence of radical Jihadi Islamism”, published in two parts in the Jawa Pos (Surabaya, Indonesia) in January 2003.
Barton, Greg, “Islam and democracy in Indonesia”, Dissent, Issue 10 Summer 2002/2003.
Barton, Greg, “Islam, Islamism and the contest for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia”, The Review, Melbourne, November 2002.
Barton, Greg, “Indonesia: No News Wasn’t Good News”, Eureka Street, November 2002,
Barton, Greg, “A deadly serious pipedream – Al Qaeda’s vision for our region”, Opinion, The Age, October 30, 2002 (also published in a slightly different form as “Call to arms that can't be ignored”, in The Newcastle Herald, October 30, 2002).Barton, Greg, “Where to now for Megawati?”, ABC Online, website October 16, 2002
(Public Record http://abc.net.au/public/s701437.htm).Barton, Greg, “Trouble in paradise – a portent of things to come?”, Opinion, Sydney Morning Herald, October 15, 2002.
Barton, Greg, “In the shadow of the generals”, Opinion, Sydney Morning Herald, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, “Why Indonesia did nothing”, Opinion, Australian Financial Review, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, “Uncertainty the only certainty amid the blood”, Opinion, The Age, Monday, October 14, 2002.
Barton, Greg, “Reform may have to wait in Megawati’s Indonesia”, The Review, October 2001.
Barton, Greg, “An Interview with President Abdurrahman Wahid”, Inside Indonesia, No 63, July-September 2000.
Barton, Greg, “Decline and fall”, Feature, Sydney Morning Herald, July 28, 2001.
Barton, Greg, “What now for Indonesia?”, Opinion, The Herald Sun, July 24, 2001.
Barton, Greg, “Gus Dur visits Australia: a view from down under”, Feature, The Herald Sun, June 29, 2001.
Barton, Greg, “Gus Dur: Not your average president”, The Van Zorge Report, December 2000.
Barton, Greg, “President Wahid struggles with regime change”, The Review, November 2000.
Barton, Greg, “People have yet to adjust after a regime change”, Opinion, The Jakarta Post, June 30, 2000.
Barton, Greg, “Islam returns to centre stage in Indonesia and Malaysia”, Asiaweek, June 2000.
Barton, Greg, “More than meets the eye: Indonesia's surprising new president”, Greg Barton, Inside Indonesia, No 62, April-June 2000.
Barton, Greg, “Whatever happened to Megawati?”, Feature, The Weekend Australian, January 22, 2000.
Barton, Greg, “Slow going on the reform path - Wahid’s First 100 Days, Feature, The Weekend Australian, January 29, 2000.
Barton, Greg, “Who is Gus Dur? President Abdurrahman Wahid: Islamic Liberal”, The Review, Melbourne, November 1999, p. 8-9.
Barton, Greg, “Maverick king-maker wins crown, Feature, The Weekend Australian, October 23, 1999.
Barton, Greg, “The people have spoken - now what?”, Opinion, The Age, September 1999.
Barton, Greg, “PKB-PAN & PDI-P one hope for the future, Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 1998.
Barton, Greg, “Pauline Hanson’s ‘One Nation’ Success – How is it possible?”, Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 1998.
Barton, Greg, “Civil Society in Indonesia”, Ummat, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 1998.