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Indonesia Is No Model for Muslim Democracy
March 5, 2013
Since the resignation of Indonesia’s authoritarian president Suharto in 1998, the country has made great strides in consolidating a democratic government.
Muslim Politics and Popular Culture in Malaysia: PAS, Hudud, and Rock 'n' Roll
February 26, 2013
Malaysia’s 13th general election is imminent and the opposition coalition (Pakatan Rakyat) is fragile.
Discourses of Defiance: Framing Muslim Self-Determination in Thailand and the Philippines
May 23, 2012
Using the concept of framing, this presentation will explore discourses behind the move for greater self-determination on the part of the Malay-Muslims of southern Thailand and the Moro of the...
Comparing China’s Islams: Muslim Minority Accommodation to Chinese Rule
April 13, 2012
Muslim minorities in China are often depicted as either forces for integration (i.e., sinicization and assimilation) or disintegration (as separatists, radical Islamists, or ethnic nationalists)....
Negotiating Religious Freedom: Christian Mobilization in the “Islamic State” of Malaysia
November 1, 2011
A series of events over the last few years, including attempts to deny non-Muslim rights to use the term "Allah," arson attacks on Christian churches, curbs on conversions of Muslims, and...
Does Democratization Imply Islamization? Lessons from Democratic Indonesia, the World’s Largest Majority-Muslim Country
May 18, 2011
Indonesia has undergone democratization since 1998. Islamic political parties have re-emerged, but they have failed to gain significant support.
Pop Preachers, Pornography, and Moral Politik: Islamic Statecraft in Democratic Indonesia
February 10, 2010
In October 2008 Indonesian legislators finally passed a law against pornography.
The 2009 Elections in Indonesia: Parties and Candidates
January 8, 2009
Marcus Mietzner is currently Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. Between 1998 and 2008, he lived, worked and researched in Indonesia.
Muslim Politics in Southeast Asia: Democratic Islam Hijacked? Or Re-invigorated?
May 1, 2008
Civil Islam - Beyond the Headlines A lecture and three seminars by Robert W.
Schooling Islam: Madrasas and the Remaking of Muslim Modernity
April 30, 2008
Civil Islam - Beyond the Headlines A lecture and three seminars by Robert W.
Varieties of Islamism: From Radical to Democratic
April 29, 2008
Civil Islam - Beyond the Headlines A lecture and three seminars by Robert W.
Civil Islam Revisited: Prospects and Meanings of Muslim Democracy
April 29, 2008
Civil Islam - Beyond the Headlines A lecture and three seminars by Robert W.
Schools for Zealots? Islamic Education and Democracy in Indonesia - and Implications for the Muslim World
October 16, 2007
In recent years the largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, has seen the growth of contrary trends: a peaceful movement for democracy led and supported mostly by Muslims but also incidents of...
Shaping US Policies toward the Malay Muslim World: Brunei and Beyond
May 3, 2007
In his annual testimony before the House Armed Services Committee in March 2006, then - Pacific Commander Admiral William Fallon characterized Southeast Asia as "in the front line of the War on...
Pakistan: the Limits of Islamization
February 6, 2007
The islamization process in Pakistan is at the core of the contradictions and identity conflict of Pakistan.
How to Study Islam as a Religion and in Society
October 7, 2005
Cosponsored with the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford
Justifying Islamic Pluralism: Reflections from Indonesia and France
October 7, 2005
Co-sponsored with the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University
Indonesian President Yudhoyono's First Thirty Days: An Evaluation + Prospects for the Future
November 18, 2004
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is Indonesia's new president. He and his vice presidential running mate, Jusuf Kalla, were elected by a landslide on 20 September 2004 and inaugurated one month later.
Power, Rights, and Desire: The "Islamic State" in Muslim Southeast Asia
March 3, 2004
Daulah Islamiyya (Islamic sovereignty, or an Islamic state) is a declared objective of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyya.
Getting Closer? Southeast Asia and the Middle East
November 19, 2003
In the United States since 9/11, there has been a tendency to reduce Southeast Asia's connections to the Middle East to religion: that is, to the Muslim faith shared by majori-ties east of the...
Muslim Southeast Asia and the Iraq War: The Politics of Backlash
May 22, 2003
About the Talk: In Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia, initial reactions to the American war in Iraq were overwhelmingly negative.
What Should the U.S. (Not) Be Doing?: A Southeast Asian View
May 7, 2003
Is unipolarity--American primacy--good or bad for the world? For Southeast Asia? For Indonesia? How dangerous or constructive is the Bush doctrine of preemption? Should the U.S.
