Manipulating Tradition: The State, Adat, Popular Protest, and Class Conflict in Colonial Lampung

Farrokhi Yazdi's political protest approach and his colonial critical thinking in the constitutional era

Farrokhi Yazdi, as one of the libertarian politicians played a significant role in constitutional poltical Movement. He dedicated his own life and poetry to constitutional government. Farrokhi's poem is a critical and protesting one which shows social and political suffers and pains and is regarded as a court which aims at judicially trying and passing sentence to corruptions, as well as publis...

Resource claims between tradition and modernity: masyarakat adat strategies in Mului (Kalimantan Timur)

The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict

Two decision-makers choose hawkish or dovish actions in a conflict game with incomplete information. The decision-making can be manipulated by “extremists” who send publicly observed cheaptalk messages. The power of extremists depends on the nature of the underlying conflict game. If actions are strategic complements, a “hawkish extremist” (provocateur) can increase the likelihood of conflict b...

Resource claims between tradition and modernity: masyarakat adat strategies in Mului (Kalimantan Timur)

Popular Nationalism and International Conflict

Does popular nationalism breed international conflict? International relations scholars have either dismissed nationalism as epiphenomenal or have assumed that it increases the likelihood of interstate violence. Contrary to these conventional views, this paper claims that popular nationalism can have a stabilizing effect, which facilitates the status quo, and that its conflictinducing effect ap...