http://seaf.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from SEAFen-usPublic domainhttp://seaf.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://seaf.stanford.edu/60http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2169Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam was published by Stanford University Press in November 2009. But the story behind the book dates back five years to November 2004. It was then that Donald K. Emmerson and Daniel Varisco -- who have each contributed a lead essay to this volume -- agreed to disagree.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2169http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2151The Asia Society has organized a Task Force on U.S. Policy toward Burma/Myanmar, co-chaired by retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark and Holsman International Chair (and former USAID Administrator) Henrietta H. Fore. The panel comprises a dozen or so individuals from various occupations and backgrounds, including SEAF’s director, Don Emmerson. Assisting the Task Force is an also diverse Advisory Group of some thirty experts in Southeast Asian and other countries. The Asia Society expects to release the Task Force’s final report early in 2010.]]>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2151http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2144More than any of his predecessors, President Obama has reached out to "the Muslim world." But what of the terms and the timing of that demarche? If, as expected, he visits Indonesia next year, he will try to build on his oratorical successes in Istanbul and Cairo by addressing Muslims in the country that has more of them than any other.]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2144http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2131John D. Ciorciari was a Shorenstein Fellow at APARC in 2007-08 and an affiliate of APARC and SEAF in 2008-09 while a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Upon leaving Stanford he took up a position as an assistant professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2131http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2132Past, present, and future Southeast Asianists linked to SEAF have ignored the hoary joke about the contest whose first prize is one week in Philadelphia and whose second prize is two weeks in that city. Several of them are on the program of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to be held, yes, in Philadelphia on 25-28 March 2010.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2132http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2128Edited by SEAF Director Don Emmerson and co-published in 2008-09 by APARC at Stanford and ISEAS in Singapore, Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia continues to attract attention. Excerpted below are two differing but equally thoughtful recent reviews:]]>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2128http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2094Southeast Asia is something of a potpourri for foreign policymakers. The region includes the world's largest Muslim-majority nation in Indonesia, booming bilateral trade, terrorism, one of the world's most repressive regimes in Myanmar, and growing Chinese influence.]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2094http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1754Fall 2007 SEAF visiting scholar Joseph Liow’s study of Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia has been published by Oxford University Press. Liow is an associate professor in the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He worked on completing the manuscript at Stanford. SEAF director Don Emmerson blurbed the book as “broad in coverage yet rich in detail, cautionary without being alarmist, [and] a cogent antidote to wishful thinking about religion, society, and the state, not only in Malaysia but in the wider Muslim world as well.”]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1754http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2028Here is what University of Queensland Prof. Alex Bellamy thinks of a recent book, Hard Choices: Security, Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, edited by SEAF Director Don Emmerson: "It is widely acknowledged that Southeast Asia stands at a fork in the road. The ratification and adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter in 2008 has given the regional body new found legal status, ...]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2028http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2025Ony Avrianto Jamhari taught the Indonesian language at Stanford in 2005-06 as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) under Fulbright sponsorship. He was active on campus in other ways as well, including organizing an Indonesian film festival. SEAF Director Don Emmerson enjoyed working with him on research projects in Indonesia. In 2009 Ony began teaching Indonesian language and culture at Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea.]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2025http://seaf.stanford.edu/events/5930Open to the public (RSVP required)
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Christian von Luebke researched and wrote this paper during his residence at Shorenstein APARC as the 2008-09 Shorenstein Fellow. He delivered it at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, 3-6 September 2009. He is presently doing further research and writing on this and related topics at APARC as a German Science Foundation (DFG) Fellow.]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:13:34 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/publications/22695http://seaf.stanford.edu/publications/22614, 05/15/2009
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US President Barack Hussein Obama's speech on June 4, 2009 in Cairo, the second of three planned trips to Muslim-majority countries, was outstanding.]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:26:26 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/publications/22605http://seaf.stanford.edu/publications/22556Red & White Publishing in "Energi Positif: Opini 100 Tokoh mengenai Indonesia di Era SBY [Positive Energy: 100 Leaders' Opinions of Indonesia in the SBY Era]", June 2009
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