Case Study
In a new study for the Middle Powers Project, M. Chatib Basri and Evan A. Laksmana explore how “active alignment” can help Indonesia shape strategic competition between the United States and China, facilitating cooperation between the major powers to support Indonesia’s own strategic priorities. The Middle Powers Project is in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
In this report, co-authors Muhamad Chatib Basri and Evan Laksmana assess Indonesia’s potential to employ its geographic, economic, and diplomatic capital to shape U.S.-China strategic competition. They suggest the country adopt an “active alignment” strategy to facilitate cooperation between the major powers and support Indonesia’s own strategic interests.
To shape this alignment, Jakarta must translate its “passive assets” into “active capital” in the form of tangible policy options, necessitating a series of domestic economic, defense, and diplomatic reforms to reconfigure the country’s strategic policymaking ecosystem.
Case Study
In a new study for the Middle Powers Project, Senem Aydin-Düzgit explores how Turkey’s position as a strategically autonomous power enables it to balance ties with the Western and non-Western world, yet the country’s economic vulnerabilities create roadblocks in the pursuit of its foreign policy goals. The Middle Powers Project is in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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In a new study for the Middle Powers Project, Anthoni van Nieuwkerk examines how South Africa’s identity as a key middle power shapes the priorities of the Global South, yet the country’s foreign policy of active nonalignment inhibits its ability to fully embody a leadership role. The Middle Powers Project is in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Case Study
In a new study for the Middle Powers Project, C. Raja Mohan assesses how India’s national ascent towards global influence faces developmental constraints and maintains that the country must balance ties with China and the United States to harness its economic potential and situate itself as a leader in the Global South. The Middle Powers Project is in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Feature
This past semester, the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia engaged in conversations and research on topics ranging from Indonesia’s election to US-Taiwan relations with the goal of continuing to develop policy solutions to the region’s most pressing concerns.
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Democracy and development were on the ballot during Indonesia’s national elections earlier this month according to experts at a Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia event on what Prabowo Subianto’s victory now portends for the future of the country.
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On February 23, the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia hosted a Global Elections Webinar Series event to reflect on the implications of Prabowo’s landslide victory for the state of democracy and prospects for national development in Indonesia.
