Past events
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
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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...
Book Launch: "the Australian army from Whitlam to Howard"
The ANU's Strategic Defence Studies Centre warmly invites you to attend the book launch of "The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard" by Dr John Blaxland. To be launched by the Chief of the...
Last of the Lands We Know: Maev's life as told to her nephew Les
This book describes how, after a fairly sheltered childhood the author became a social worker, completed postgraduate studies at Colombia University, New York, took up an academic position at the...
Capturing the state: contrasting cases of state-official ulama relations in post-authoritarian Indonesia and Malaysia
Two conclusions are made by studies on the religious and political behaviour of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and Malaysian muftis (both defined as the €˜official' ulama). One, they are...
Braving the seas: Sri Lanka's post-war troubles
Four years after the war in the North and East ended in Sri Lanka, heightened repression of ethnic and religious minorities has impeded the country's post war growth. A militarised, politicised...
