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DECRA winners, left to right: Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro

Outstanding CAP researchers win DECRA funding
Exceptional academics from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific win lucrative early career research funding to support their significant projects.
  • Academic
  • Archaeology
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • International relations
Dyah Ayu Kartika
Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Anti-Gender Mobilisation in Indonesia and Its Implications for Democracy

Dyah Ayu Kartika addresses the impact of anti-gender movements on gender-related issues and policies in Indonesia and their broader implications for the country's democracy.
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A family from the CAP graduations standing outdoors holding flowers and smiling

Stepping into the future: Celebrating mid-year graduations at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Students from the Australian National University come together in joyous celebration as they reach the culmination of their fulfilling academic journeys this July.
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Political science
  • Security
  • International relations
  • Diplomacy
  • Development
  • Culture
  • Climate Change
Religious dialogue lecture
Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Challenges of Political and Religious Dialogue
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Graduates celebrating at Ritsumeikan University, Japan

CAP celebrates graduation ceremony at Ritsumeikan University for dual degree program
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and Ritsumeikan University celebrate the graduating students from their unique undergraduate dual degree program.
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Student
Conflict resolution through constitution-making
Tue, 26 Sep 2023

Conflict Resolution through Constitution-making: Insights from Asia and the Pacific

Professorial Lecture Series
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Philology in the Chinese world
Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Small Data: Biography, Locality and Philology in the Chinese World

Professorial Lecture Series
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Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia
'Democracy for Sale' is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
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Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History
This book surveys the systems of detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China.
  • Asia
  • Human Rights
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Opposing Suharto: Compromise, resistance, and regime change in Indonesia
Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia.
  • Asia
  • Social movements
  • Democracy and elections
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Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia
Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
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Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia
Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement.
  • Asia
  • Religious studies
  • Social movements
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Money, Power and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
This book provides an unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner working of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
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Debating Democratization in Myanmar
Coming at a critical time, and one of growing interest in this Southeast Asian country among researchers and policy-makers, this book addresses this complex question from various perspectives.
  • Asia
  • Economic Development
  • Democracy and elections
Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development

Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations
Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity.
  • Aid and Development
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Governance and regulation
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Wed, 13 Apr 2022

The myth of non-interference: Chinese foreign policy in Cambodia

Moderated by Dr Katrin Travouillon from our  Department of Political and Social Change, the panelists make two key arguments.
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