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The recent rediscovery of institutions in the study of international development has drawn considerable attention to macro arrangements, but sparked much less interest in mid-range, sectoral institutions and how they are reshaped under dynamic domestic and nondomestic constraint…

My thesis argues that in 1982-2008, "state Islam" created a pluralistic Indonesia and an anti-pluralistic Malaysia. The rubric of "state Islam" is a political alliance of secular politicians, religious bureaucrats, and Islamic socio-religious organizations. During these twenty-f…

This study fills what has long been recognized as a major gap in the field of International Relations (IR): an account of when and how change occurs in the structure of the international system. Attempts to create social change, to create or to alter intersubjectivity, are relat…