Education as an Agenda of Social Action in Malaysia: The Search for Unity in a Plural Society

Askandar, Kamarulzaman

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“…Southern voices have increasingly called for the inclusion of Southern states at the levels of policy-making. 58 This is particularly relevant for states such as Indonesia, who are seasoned agents of multilateral peace operations but who, in the post Cold War era, have become their targets. Hegemonic frameworks such as the liberal peace operate in ways that continually exclude alternative possibilities, while generating benign self-images often at odds with their practical realities.…”

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Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance

Agensky

Barker

2012

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It is necessary to move beyond the marginalization of the global South towards a perspective that takes it as a relational, generative, and agentive site within world politics. Indonesia is an instructive case in this regard: its participation in various multilateral peace projects constitutes a narrative of Southern agency that runs counter to dominant accounts of contemporary global governance. The dominant methodologies of peacekeeping, worked out through various iterations into a project of liberal governance, have been deeply implicated in many sets of illiberal relations. This illiberal side to the 'liberal peace' can be seen in the ways particular North -South relations have been structured into peace governance, as well as its instrumentalization by powerful domestic elements of Southern states. This is well exemplified by the Indonesian case, whose postcolonial transitions have been caught up in problematic civil -military relations, with both its governments and armed forces deriving various types of support from the international community at various times. Following the Cold War, and especially post-Suharto, these have intertwined with matters of ethno-religious violence, military authority, democratization, and the rise of political Islam. Indonesia's participation in global liberal governance interventions raises questions about peace operations as a world-ordering technology.Analyses of Southern states in global governance remain largely undeveloped, especially regarding their roles in security relations. 1 Dominant accounts treat the global North -South in binary rather than relational terms, obscuring the many complex agencies that underpin international

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