Intellectuals in Post-Soeharto Politics

Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics

Effecting reality : intellectuals and politics in the current conjuncture

165 In this brief contribution, I take up three issues under the headings respectively, leverage, linkage and ‘economy’. The first might be called the current political economy of intellectual production; it asks the question what do social scientists do to affect reality. In the second part of the paper I try to alert us to the slipperiness of key institutions and concepts; it cannot be assume...

The Contest Between Radical-Conservative Islam and Progressive-Liberal Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

A False Start? Indonesian Business Associations as Democratic Actors in the Immediate Post-Soeharto Era

Fujimori and Post-Party Politics in Peru

As it has in the past, Peruvian politics defied regional trends in the 1990s. Whereas democracy either took hold (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) or at least survived (Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua) throughout most of Latin America, it collapsed in Peru. That collapse took place on 5 April 1992, when President Alberto Fujimori, in a military-backed autogolpe (self-coup), closed the Congress, suspend...