Articles

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Contemporary political mobilisation of the 'Caliphate': the clash of propaganda and discontent, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (2008)

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Islamic politics has become entangled with problematic issues such as Middle Eastern tensions, energy resource...

 

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Rome and Parthia: Power politics and diplomacy across cultural frontiers, CEWCES Research Papers (2005)

[extract] Historically the gateways to appreciate Persian and Parthian culture were limited until the modern...

 

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ASEAN Concord II: Policy prospects for participant regional development, Contemporary Southeast Asia: A journal of international and strategic affairs (2004)

With the ASEAN Concord II in late 2003, Southeast Asia charted an ambitious path towards...

 

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Making the Spirit Sing: A review of Trevor Carolan's Return to Stillness: Twenty years with a Tai Chi Master, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (2003)

Highly recommended for beginners and adepts, students of Asian philosophies and marital arts, or those...

 

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The transnational politics of Cuban music and Cuban culture, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (2003)

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Over the last decade it has become clear that the meaning of Cubanidad and...

 

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The Rasa of leadership in contemporary Asia: the nexus of politics, culture and social performance, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (2002)

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Discussions of international politics in the contemporary period tend to be couched in terminologies...

 

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China and the emerging Eurasian agenda: From special interests to strategic cooperation, CEWCES Research Papers (2001)

[extract] China remains a multinational and multi-ethnic state with diverse relations across its southern, northern...

 

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Nanning and Guangxi: China's gateway to the south-west, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (2000)

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Nanning is a surprise. An ancient city in China's remote southwest, Nanning turns out...

 

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On the Use of Object Oriented Techniques to Support the Construction of CASE Tools (with Andrew Hunter), AMCIS 2000 Proceedings (2000)

This paper describes the MetaBuilder system: a means of constructing CASE tools by graphically assembling...

 

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Suzhou: A cultural and economic centre of Southern China, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (1999)

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Beijing has the heavenly world of government, Shanghai the earthy world of commerce, but...

 

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Meeting on the road: Cosmopolitan Islamic culture and the politics of Sufism, CEWCES Research Papers (1996)

[extract] We can see that Islam provides a multi-layered religious, cultural and political complex with...

 

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A revisionist looks ahead - Chalmers Johnson and 'to the end of the Japanese American alliance'., Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (1995)

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In November 1994, Professor Chalmers Johnson was on an extended Australian tour, organised as...

 

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Positive-sum games in the Asia-Pacific region, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (1995)

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Massive changes are occurring politically, economically and socially in the Asia-Pacific region. With the...

 

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Complexity in the centre: the new Southeast Asian mandala, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (1994)

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R. James Ferguson (1994) The overlapping interconnections and conflicting interests within Southeast Asia can...

 

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The dangers of dramatic biography: a review of, Harrison E. Salisbury The New Emperors Mao and Deng: A Dual Biography, Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies (1994)

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The book is notable for its wealth of research and intimate detail, and the...

 

Books

International Confucian conference in commemoration of the 2550th anniversary of Confucius' birthday: Toward a global community (with Martin Lu and Rosita Dellios) (2004)

Selected essays presented at the International Confucian conference in commemoration of the 2550th anniversary of...

 

Book Chapters

Indonesia, ASEAN and the ASEAN regional forum: Convergent Trends in Regional and National Development, Readings in World Development: Growth and Development in Asia Pacific (2006)

Deep regional interaction remains a crucial component for the development of modern Indonesia in the...

 

Beyond the Federation of fear: Regional responses to undocumented migration, The Eye of the Cyclone: Issues in Pacific Security (2004)

A compilation of many of the papers presented at the PIPSA conference on the theme...

 

Confucius, Mencius, and the participatory society, International Confucian Conference in Commemoration of the 2550th Anniversary of Confucius' Birthday: Toward a global community (2004)

Selected Essays presented at the International Confucian Conference in Commemoration of the 2550th Anniversary of...

 

Environmental sustainability in India and China: Prospects and risks, Twentieth Century Development: Some Relevant Issues (2004)

Chapter 15. Environmental Sustainability in India and China : Prospects and Risks

 

New forms of Southeast Asian governance: From Codes of Conduct to Greater East Asia., Non-Traditional Security Issues in Southeast Asia (2001)

A ground-breaking discourse on an increasingly vital topic that moves away from the traditional concept...

 

Conference Papers

Harmony and humane governance - Contesting the social order in classical Chinese thought and 21st century global society (with Rosita Dellios), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress: "From the crossroads of civilizations: Understanding cultural diversity to connect societies (2010)

When China’s President Hu Jintao articulated his country’s ‘harmonious world’ (hexie shijie) foreign policy perspective...