Past events
The Role of Volunteers and Changing Social Movement Characteristics in the 2014 Indonesian Presidential Election
The changes that occurred in the 2014 Indonesian presidential election may be seen as a transition in Indonesia's social movements and democracy traditions. They identified a social movement with...
Indonesia's Post-Reformasi Rule of Law Discourse: New Space, New Actors
This presentation, taken from the speaker's PhD research, argues that in post-Reformasi Indonesia, there is more institutional and virtual space for contesting and constructing the rule of law...
Defence Diplomacy: Is the game worth the candle?
Few Defence topics have been as...
Fresh from the lab: What the latest techniques can tell us about how Australians view our major foreign policy challenges
Abstract: The 2008 US Presidential Election introduced the general public to many of the innovative techniques which political scientists and others have developed to analyse survey...
Promoting the human rights of people with HIV, men who have sex with men, and transgenders in Papua New Guinea
Igat Hope is the national organisation for people living with HIV in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Kapul Champions is the national organisation for men who have sex with men (or men with diverse...
How Hierarchic was the Historical East Asian System?
Hierarchy is becoming a central topic in recent International Relations scholarship, and the historical East Asian hierarchy offers an important case study. This research update...
Escalation in the East China Sea: A Political and Military Possibility
Even if the leaders of China and Japan can lessen the significant political tensions between North Asia's two biggest powers, the East China Sea dispute could still spark a bilateral...
'Informality and "the Idea of the Town" in Hubert Murray's Papua'
The paper follows my study of informality among Chinese and indigenous Tolai in German New Guinea (GNG), where the goal was to impose conformity with a German ideology of 'national-economic...
Fiji: Return to Democracy Workshop
In September, Fiji held its first election in eight years, the first under the 2013 constitution, and the first using a common roll of electors with proportional representation. In the new...
Parties in opposition and government: exploring alternation in Indonesia's post-authoritarian party system
The existence of party-based opposition is generally accepted as intrinsic to democracy, yet has been deemed lacking in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Indeed, one influential assessment holds that...
