Asia Research Centre

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Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre is celebrating twenty years of research into capitalist development and political conflict in Asia this year. The Centre was formed with Federal funding as a Special Centre of the Australian Research Council in 1991, the same year that the Soviet Union collapsed, Keating unseated Hawke, and the web browser was invented.

Since that time, the Centre has developed to become one of Australia’s leading concentrations of expertise on South East Asia, with a thriving programme of research on Japanese studies also. Murdoch University has some of the world's leading scholars working on Asia. Highlights of the recent research agenda include an AusAID funded project conducted by a team of Centre members led by Emeritus Professor Richard Robison on the political economy of aid effectiveness; an Australian Future Fellowship awarded to Professor Vedi Hadiz to study populist Islam in Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa; and an Australian Professorial Fellowship awarded to Professor Garry Rodan to study the politics of representation in South East Asia. The Asia Research Centre also recently became a member of an international consortium of universities investigating the emergence of an Indian Ocean economy from the 10th century onwards, through a project led by historian Professor James Warren.