Turnbull Meets Jokowi: A New Chapter in Australia-Indonesia Relations?
Indonesia is keen to engage with Australia as part of a regional balance of power and it welcomes trade and investment opportunities. Yet difficulties remain between the neighbouring states.
Managing Expectations in NLD-led Myanmar
Rooting out predatory power such as that firmly in place after decades of military rule in Myanmar requires public and international buy-in.
Neo-Orientalism: Indonesia’s Colonialism and Papua
Lessons learnt from Dutch colonialism have resulted in Indonesia’s mimicking and replicating its own code of imperialism, resulting in Papua’s accession into Indonesia.
Interview – Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev discusses Russia’s troubled relationship with the West, the problems with democratic triumphalism, and the role of the EU in the post-Cold War world.
Review – How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Using fresh theoretical tools and analysis to challenge the received wisdom of capitalist development, this title will be of considerable use to a variety of scholars.
The Art of Living with Difference: Contemporary Troubles Fiction
The social benefits of the Troubles novels lie in their deeper understanding of the ethics of ‘the other’.
ISIS Threat Laps the Caribbean
With the region’s porous borders and often weak state capacity to deal with security threats, regional governments must gear up to the challenges that face them.
Global Christian Networks for Human Dignity
Perhaps we stand at a hinge point of Christian history as the faith’s contribution to dignity and freedom becomes more fully manifest and global.
Sociotheology: The Significance of Religious Worldviews
Being empathetic is not the same as morally approving of violence but understanding that there can be a political and religious rationale behind ‘their’ violence.
What is Security? Securitization Theory and its Application in Turkey
Examining the issue of Turkey’s accession to the EU, this essay examines how non-security issues can be securitized by various social and political actors.
