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- Public Seminar, 26th November, Senate
Room, 1:30 pm, Murdoch University
Scott Guggenheim, World Bank
Community and Governance in Indonesia, 1998-2009
- Australian Professorial Fellowship
- Garry Rodan
Director of the Asia Research Centre, Garry
Rodan, has been awarded an Australian
Professorial Fellowship by the Australian
Research Council for his project
Representation and Political Regimes in Southeast
Asia
Comprehending drivers and directions of
political regimes in Southeast Asia is urgently
needed as the global financial crisis and
climate change pose new challenges for Australia's
regional engagement. Aid strategies to support
and promote preferred political and other
governance institutions will be enhanced by
knowledge of the conflicts and alliances over
political representation. Specific coalitions
functional for democratic institutions in
particular would become clearer. Business
interests in trade and investment will benefit
from understanding the nature and extent of
conflicts over representation and their potential
or otherwise to result in trade protectionism
and affect political stability. Australian
Professorial Fellowships are available for
outstanding researchers with proven international
reputations to undertake research that is
of major importance in its field and of significant
benefit to Australia.
- The 2009 Lee Kong Chian Research
Fellowship
Tan
Teng-Phee, a postgraduate researcher
with the Asia Research Centre, has been awarded
the Lee
Kong Chian Research Fellowship
offered by the National Library Singapore
to research “The assassination of Henry
Gurney and the case of Tras New Village and
the Malayan emergency”. This is a 6
month award established to encourage research
into various aspects of Asian content: its
culture, economy and heritage. It was open
to both local and foreign applicants whose
research focus requires use of the archived
and preserved collections of the Lee Kong
Chian Reference Library at the National Library,
Singapore.
- Future Fellowship - Vedi Hadiz.
Long time Associate of the Asia Research Centre,
Vedi
Hadiz,currently at the National
University of Singapore, has been awarded
a Future
Fellowship by the Australian
Research Council to return to Australia and
Murdoch University. Vedi's project "State,
Class and Islamic Populism: Indonesia in Comparative
Perspective" is one of 3
awarded nationally in the field of Political
Science.
This study will provide a different basis
for the assessment of Australian policy responses
to Islamic radicalism in Indonesia. It will
expose the social foundations of Islamic populism
as a particular expression of political Islam
and in so doing allow the Australian public
and policymakers to understand the complex
networks and relationships that generate and
sustain Islamic populism, including its radical
streams. It will enable an identification
and differentiation of the social forces resisting
or advancing democratic governance reforms
in Indonesia. With this knowledge, programmes
intended to help develop domestic pro-democratic
coalitions to stem the rise of radical Islamic
groups have a sounder social scientific base.
- Op Ed Interest
lost, a study falls silent by
David Hill
The
Australian, 2nd September 2009
- Risk,
Regulation and New Modes of Regional Governance
in the Asia-Pacific
Australian Journal of International
Affairs
Special Issue Editors: Shahar
Hameiri & Kanishka
Jayasuriya
We are often told that in the Asia-Pacific,
regionalism is weak and states are strong.
Yet, in recent years a new kind of regulatory
regionalism has emerged that is located within
'national' political and policy making institutions.
This special issue is the first substantive
analysis of new modes of regional governance
in the Asia-Pacific. The editors chart an
innovative research agenda that reaches beyond
the moribund literature on 'how much' trade
liberalisation and regional integration. New
modes of regional governance examined in this
issue include financial surveillance, functional
policy networks such as the Executives' Meeting
of East Asia Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP),
the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon
Islands (RAMSI), the role of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) in governing fragile states, and
the growing prominence of private actors such
as security companies in delivering public
goods. A distinctive feature of this collection
is the analysis of the significance of risk
and risk management for the emergence of regulatory
regionalism in the Asia-Pacific.
The complete issue can be viewed free
online for a limited time. Please visit
www.informaworld.com/caji to access
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2008 Annual Report released:
The Annual Report of the Asia Research Centre for 2008 is now available
to download as a .pdf file (2Mb), simply by clicking on the image of
the cover to the right.
- Centre Embarks on New Modes
of Governance Project
The Asia Research Centre is embarking on a new flagship project,
New Modes of Governance in the Asia-Pacific, with the aim of identifying,
analysing and assessing new modes of governance in the region. Researchers
will investigate such questions as: What patterns are discernible
in the way that public goods are being provided? What are the competing
conceptions of the ‘public’ in the provision of these
goods and can they be reconciled? What conflicts and coalitions of
interest are involved in the competing notions of how to provide public
goods? More broadly, what are the links between new modes of governance
and political regimes? Are these modes fostering forms of political
participation and accountability that converge with or depart sharply
from institutions of representative democracy? And what are the implications
of this – both for the region and engagement with it?
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