The Soldier's Inheritance
Prabowo Subianto and the New Order Restoration
How Prabowo's New Order military formation shapes Indonesia's 2025-26 institutions: Kopassus, the 1998 abductions, Danantara and Suharto's hero decree.
Gary Dean
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2: In Search of Dharma
The Genesis of Dharmas
How did dharma arise? When cities outgrew face-to-face morality, humans engineered explicit codes—and the Axial sages answered, not revealed, that need.
The New Order State and the Tempo Affair
A conflict of values
How Indonesia's 1994 Tempo banning exposed a deeper clash between New Order corporatism and Western liberal individualism under Soeharto.
The Development of Australian Foreign Policy
Trace Australia's foreign policy shift from British colonial dependency to US alliance and independent middle-power diplomacy in Asia.
The Importance and Consequences of Trade in Southeast Asia
until 1870
How trade shaped Southeast Asia from Srivijaya and Malacca to European colonialism, transforming societies and politics before 1870.
The development and future of the nation-state
Tracing the nation-state from hunter-gatherer bands to Westphalia and colonialism, and its decline under globalisation and the rise of global cities.
Karl Marx's The Origins and Development of Capitalism
a review
A critical review of Marx's Capital on capitalism's origins, weighing feudal breakdown and wage labour against his prophetic voice.
