Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies. Shrines are physical manifestatio…
Written specifically to cover the A2 component of the GCE Government and Politics A-level, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the political ideas and movements that have shaped the modern world. Underpinned by the work of major thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Mill, Weber and others, the first half of the book looks at political concepts including the state and sovereignty, the n…
Information and communications technologies are increasingly important in the Australian political landscape. From the adoption of new forms of electoral campaigning to the use of networking technology to organise social movements, media technology has the potential to radically change the way politics is conducted and experienced in this country. The first comprehensive volume on the impact of…
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times,…
Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcom…
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, analyzing both the role and impact of the EU and regional organizations in Latin America on crisis management as well as t…
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logist…
Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of educat…
This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly â…
Buku bungai rampai ini akan menelusuri serta menguak kasus-kasus intoleransi dan radikalisme yang terjadi di berbagai wilayah di Indonesia. Data terkini yang telah dikumpulkan melalui observasi mendetail di lapangan serta wawancara eksklusif dengan narasumber yang kompeten akan dianalisis dengan metode ilmiah untuk menghasikan suatu temuan dan kesimpulan yang berkualitas. Dengan demikian, dihar…
Pemilu Serentak 2019 merupakan pemilu kelima yang dilaksanakan pada era transisi demokrasi, sekaligus pengalaman pertama bagi bangsa Indonesia melaksanakan pemilu legislatif bersamaan dengan pemilu presiden-wakil presiden. Keberhasilan pelaksanan pemilu tentu saja tidak dapat dilepaskan dari kesiapan kondisi pemangku kepentingan (stakeholders) di segala bidang, khususnya bidang politik, hukum, …
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for schola…
From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real w…
Penerbitan buku ini telah melalui proses peer review sebagai salah satu upaya penjaminan mutu publikasi ilmiah. Buku ini merupakan intisari hasil penelitian panjang dari para peneliti di Pusat Penelitian Politik LIPI sejak 2013–2018, khususnya mengenai gerakan politik Islam di kawasan Timur Tengah pasca ArabSpring. Buku ini menun-jukkan bagaimana sikap negara-negara di kawasan Timur Te…
Kajian ini didasarkan kepada kandungan empat naskah yang ditulis pada rentang tahun 1810-1812. Pertama, Naskah berkode Mss Eur D.742/1 ff.132- 135 (koleksi British Library), yakni surat Thomas Stamford Raffles kepada para penguasa di tanah Melayu yang menginformasikan tentang rencana Inggris untuk menduduki Pulau Jawa. Kedua, Naskah berkode Mss Eur D.742/1 f.49a-b (koleksi British Library), y…
Sukarnologi adalah kajian-kajian ilmiah tentang pikiran-pikiran Sukarno. Jikalau disebut sebagai kajian ilmiah berarti ada kritiknya. Logi-nya Sukarno itu bermacam-macam, seperti pertama ada logi yang berhubungan dengan politik, bagaimana pandangan politiknya Sukarno. Kedua logi-nya tentang nasionalisme, bagaimana pandangannya nasionalisme oleh Sukarno. Yang ketiga logi tentang sosialisme, baga…
This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on po…
Bunga rampai ini mencoba memberikan pemahaman komprehensif terkait Pemilu Serentak 2019 dan memberikan prediksi tentang apa yang tengah dan akan terjadi di masa-masa mendatang. Selama ini survei lebih banyak difokuskan pada pandangan publik, namun dalam bunga rampai ini Tim Penulis melakukan kajian yang melibatkan para ahli dari berbagai disiplin ilmu sebagai respondennya. Solusi yang disampaik…
Upaya untuk menegakkan kembali kedaulatan Indonesia di wilayah perairan, khususnya wilayah laut, telah digaungkan sejak beberapa tahun terakhir melalui visi menjadikan Indonesia sebagai Poros Maritim Dunia. Bunga rampai ini secara khusus membahas isu-isu strategis kejahatan di laut, diplomasi maritim Indonesia di ASEAN, dan interaksi antarkekuatan di kawasan. Ditulis oleh Tim Kajian ASEAN di …