Power and Regulation

Focus Area

Examining how concepts and practices of power and regulation are formulated, propagated and enacted.

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Beyond Bipolarity

The IAP seeks to look beyond the fast emerging consensus that the world is moving into a bi-polar configuration, with US-China rivalry setting the magnetic field of forces within which many lesser powers and smaller countries may feel that they have to choose sides

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The Civilisationism Project

In the past two decades, there has been a world-wide resurgence of discourses that define the people in terms of their unique civilizational identity and call for states to refurbish their timeless civilizational glory.

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InterAsian Legalities Cluster Launch

We are pleased to announce the InterAsian Legalities Cluster, a research partnership between the The Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS / based at Melbourne Law School), the Arab Council of Social Sciences, and WSU School of Law

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Power and regulation

The IAP will look at how the concepts and practices of power and regulation are formulated, propagated and enacted across InterAsia. Projects falling under this theme engage with the idea of who and what is seen to hold ‘legitimate power’ and the mechanisms through which this power is legitimated, taking into account the dense network of overlapping yet distinct legal systems, jurisdictions and norms.