Past events
The Spectre of the ‘Ethnic Outbidder’: Rebels, Fanatics and Demagogues in Malaysia, Fiji and Northern Ireland
This paper revisits the arguments in Rabushka and Shepsle’s influential 1972 book, The Politics of Plural Societies, concerning the role of ethnic ‘entrepreneurs’ or ‘outbidders’ in deeply divided...
Socio-economic Development in Myanmar's Delta: Insights from Maubin Township, Ayeyarwady Region
After 1988, the Government of Myanmar led a transition from a centrally controlled to a more open–market economy. As a consequence, several development programs emerged in Maubin township, as in...
Economic Ideas in Political Time: The Crisis of Neoliberalism and Rise of a New Nationalism?
Over the past century, economic policy orders – rooted in ideas that shape interests – have spanned the Progressive, Keynesian, and Neoliberal eras, marked by periods of prolonged growth and...
The WomanStats Project and Database
The WomanStats Project began in 2001, with the goal of investigating the relationship between the security of women and the security of nation-states. To that end, it began an ambitious data...
Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia: Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation
Abstract There has been an intense scholarly debate about what caused the unprecedented Islamist mass demonstrations in Indonesia in late 2016. Some scholars have argued that increasing...
Postgraduate Information Evening
Whether you are an experienced professional looking for a career change, or just finished your degree and are thinking about further study, come along to this event to learn about postgraduate...
Solomons Federalism, and Bougainville Referendum: Issues and Prospects
Both Solomon Islands and Bougainville are approaching critical points when longstanding debates about proposals and processes for fundamental changes in political arrangements are coming to a head...
Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia
Speakers
The Hon. Mr Kalfau Kaloris Vanuatu’s High Commissioner to Australia
Mr Sakias Tameo PNG’s Acting High Commissioner to Australia
With participation by:...
Can Might Make Right? Grotian Rules of Regulation in International Relations
In this seminar, I investigate one of the most puzzling claims of international-relations realism: namely that, given anarchy, ‘might makes right’. I first distinguish it from descriptive and meta...
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Papua New Guinea: The first phase, 1884-1945
Since the 1980s, little systematic attention has been paid to the existence and activities of corporations in Papua New Guinea, even as their presence has grown substantially. There are studies of...
