Richard Robison has a BA from the Australian National University, an
MA with first class honours and a Ph.D in political science from the
University of Sydney. He was Professor of Asian and International Politics
at Murdoch University from 1990 to 2002 and Director of the Australian
Research Council’s Special Centre for Research on Political and
Economic Change in Asia from 1994 to 1999 where he led research teams
on studies of the new rich in Asia, the Asian economic crisis and political
transitions in the region. During this period he was a member of the
Australian Government’s Foreign Affairs Advisory Board and the
Ausaid Advisory Board as well as a member of the Board of the Australia – Indonesia
Institute. In 2001/02 he was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
at The University of Warwick and had previously held a Fulbright Senior
Scholars Award in US. From 2003 to 2006 he was Professor of Political
Economy at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.
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- Professor Robison has authored, edited or co-edited 14 books. These
include; Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (Sydney, Allen and Unwin
1986), Pathways
to Asia: the politics of engagement (edited, Sydney, Allen and
Unwin, 1996), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Economic
Crisis (co-edited, London, Routledge, 2000), Reorganising Power
in Indonesia: the politics of oligarchy in an age of markets (with
Vedi Hadiz, London, Routledge, 2004). His most recent book is The
Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State (edited, London,
Palgrave 2006). He has also published on issues of political economy,
Asian Values, neo-liberalism,
governance, corruption and state building in leading international journals,
including; World Politics, Pacific Review, Tiers Monde, New Political
Economy, Critical Asian Studies, World Development and The Journal of
Development Studies.
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- Professor Robison has published extensively on the politics of markets
and the way markets are being fused within authoritarian and populist
forms of state authority. In particular he has written on the rise and
fall of Soeharto’s Indonesia in this context.
- His more recent works
examine the evolution of neoliberalism as the defining social revolution
of our time and the ensuing political conflicts over the institutions
of political governance, state authority and social power. In 2005 and
2006 he was convenor of the governance and development project within
the EU Framework Six Network of Excellence programme for Global and Regional
Governance and Regulation.
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- Richard Robison, Asia Research Centre and Emeritus Professor, School
of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150, Western Australia. Email: R.Robison@murdoch.edu.au
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