Past events
From intervention to partnership - prospects for development partnership in Solomon Islands after RAMSI
Abstract
On 24 July 2013, development programs under the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) were €œtransitioned€ to bilateral and multilateral donors and RAMSI's development...
Rural Political culture from East Java in 2014
In Southeast Asia, candidates for national leadership have been very concerned with the power of rural voters. Perhaps the most prominent contemporary example is Thaksin Shinawatra. His...
Book Launch of 'Broken Nation' by Joan Beaumont
We would like to invite you to attend the book launch of 'Broken Nation' by Professor Joan Beaumont, to be launched by Air Chief Marshall (retd.) Angus Houston AC, AFC - Chair of the ANZAC...
2013 Timor-Leste update: a new era? prospects and challenges for Timor-Leste
UNFORTUNATELY, REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Overview
2012 saw peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Timor-Leste, the wind-up of the Australian-led International...
Resource Contestation and Conservation in Timor-Leste
Abstract
The implementation of conservation regimes upon a landscape reconfigures not only the materiality of the environment, but also the social and power structures that arbitrate resource...
In Search of White Elephants: the emergence of a clientelist and neo-patrimonialist state in Timor-Leste
Abstract
After little more than a decade after independence, the small island state of Timor-Leste is exhibiting some of the hallmarks of much more advanced South-East Asian states. Since 2008,...
Asia's Security and the Problem of Values
Event Details
A positive security environment for Asia won't just depend on common interests between the region's major powers. It will also need shared values, and not just among allies (such as...
Theorising the international humanitarian order
Theorising the international humanitarian order
Afghanistan in South-West Asia: influences and challenges
The impending international military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 and political transition raises a range of issues of great import for Afghanistan and the wider world. Of particular...
The logic of money politics: its forms, determinants, actors and electoral outcomes in post-Suharto Indonesia
Along with the rise of democratic regimes in the Third World, vote buying has become a key component of electoral mobilization in many young democracies. Indonesia is not an exception. In its...
