Arnout van der Meer, Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia. Southeast Asia Program Publications

DIETARY MODULATION OF THE RESISTANCE TO INTESTINAL INFECTIONS INGEBORG BOVEE-OUDENHOVEN and ROELOF VAN DER MEER

Notes on Van der Meer scan for absolute luminosity measurement

The absolute luminosity can be measured in an accelerator by sweeping beams transversely across each other in the so-called van der Meer scan. We prove that the method can be applied in the general case of arbitrary beam directions and a separation scan plane. A simple method to develop an image of the beam in its transverse plane from spatial distributions of interaction vertexes is also propo...

Japan and Southeast Asia: the Lineaments of Quasi-hegemony

Japan has had a profound influence on Southeast Asia. Whether it is measured by Japan’s often brutal, but ultimately liberating, war-time occupation of the region, or by the more recent economic interaction, Japan has played a major part in shaping Southeast Asia’s political and economic development. At one level this is hardly surprising. Japan, as T..J. Pempel (1999: 27) reminds us, ‘remains ...

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

The United States and Southeast Asia: Change and Continuity in American Hegemony

The United States has been the most powerful country in the world since the Second World War. In the wake of September 11, at a time when the US has an unrivalled ability to project power in any part of the globe, this may seem like a remarkably anodyne observation. Yet it is important to remember that for much of the post-war period the Soviet Union was a formidable adversary that constrained ...