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Research based debate

–Jakarta Post, Tempo andEconomic & Political Weekly

  • ‘From irony of success to tragedy of failure’failure’Jakarta Post30.10.20PDF.


  • ‘Homage to AE Priyono’.Jakarta Post15 04.20PDF.


  • ‘In memoriam: Arief Budiman, architect of the democracy movement’,Jakarta Post04.20,PDF.


  • ‘The rise and crumbling of reformist populism in Indonesia’ Jakarta Post 29 and 30.10.19PDF.



  • ’The Politics of Amnesia’Economic and Political Weekly3 Oct 2015 (full version) cit with PDF in article section – Indonesia. Short version; ’The Politics of Amnesia’Jakarta Post29.09.15)PDF.


  • ‘From Neoliberalism to New-Etatism’,Jakarta Post18 Dec, 2014.PDF.

Next generation. (East Laut Island, Kotabaru, S. Kalimantan)

  • ‘Stagnation or Transformation in Jokowi’s Indonesia?’ Tempo(English Edition) November 23, 2014, Jakarta.PDF.


  • ‘Indonesia’s Democratization Stagnant but Not Lost’, Jakarta Post, February 25, 2014.PDF.


  • ‘Megawati’s Indian Lessons’,Jakarta Post, December 16, 2013.PDF.


  • ‘Democracy Bashing: On Corruption and Peace’ In Aceh,Jakarta Post,27 January 2012.PDF.


  • ‘Is Social Democracy Being Undermined?’ (2011)Economic and Political Weekly(op.cit. with PDF in article/essays – general section)


  • ‘The Maestro of Civil Society Work (Remembering Asmara Nababan)’ Jakarta Post, 8 November /2010.PDF.


  • ‘Remembering Joesoef Isak's Contribution to Democracy’,Jakarta Post, August 21, 2009.PDF.


  • ‘The Nobel Prize for Ahtisaari and Aceh’, Jakarta Post10 December, 2008.PDF.


  • ‘Indonesian Democracy: Advances, Setbacks, Options’, Jakarta Post, May 6, 2008. PDF


  • ‘From Elitist to Popular Representation’, Jakarta Post, April 11, 2007. PDF


  • ‘The Political System Needs to be Opened, Not Closed’,Jakarta Post, December 27, 2006. PDF
  • ‘Making Democracy Meaningful for Indonesia’,Jakarta Post, November 24, 2005.PDF


  • ‘Indonesian Democracy: Façade or Under Way?’ Jakarta Post, January 1, 2005.PDF


  • ‘The Mulyana Soap Opera,Tempo4/2005PDF


  • ‘Dilemmas of the Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement in Indonesia’, Jakarta Post, January 27, 2004.PDF


  • ‘Problems and Options of Indonesian Democratisation’, Jakarta Post,February 2, 2004.PDF.Extended version inEconomic and Political Weekly,XXXIX:10, March 6, 2004.


  • ‘The Death of a Human Rights Campaigner’,Jakarta Post, November 26, 2004.PDF


  • ‘Munir: In Memoriam’, in Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIX:48, November 27, 2004.PDF
  • ‘C’mon, Bung, Let’s Get It Back’, Tempo, October 18, 2004. (In Indonesian in Edisi11-17 October) PDF


  • ‘What’s Wrong with Indonesia’s Democratisation?’Asian Journal of Social Sciences(2002) op.cit withPDFin article section-Indonesia.Brief versionpublished in Jakarta Post, April 10 and 11, 2001,PDF and Economic and Political Weekly, April 14, 2001.


  • ‘An Open Letter to Indonesian Reformists’ (about the need for a genuine truth and reconciliation commission on the 1965/66 massacres), Jakarta Post, April 17, 2000. PDF


  • ‘Students Deserve Peace Prize’ –Jakarta Post1999-10-07.


  • ‘Reconciliation a Must in East Timor’ - Jakarta Post/on line edition Jakarta. 1999-09-28 (also with the title Crisis in East Timor in Economic and Political Weekly(Bombay) Vol. XXXIV:39, 1999) - Jakarta Post,Jakarta, 1999-09-27/28.PDFto EPW version


  • ‘Birth of the World's Third Largest Democracy - Part 1 & 2 -- Jakarta Post, Economic and Political Weekly,Bombay(1999) Op.cit. with PDF in article section-Indonesia


  • ‘The Day After’, in Economic and Political Weekly, January 8, 2000. PDF


  • ‘Will the Students Succeed?’ in Jakarta Post 1999-02-09.PDF


  • ‘Sizing up an Appropriate Electoral System’, inJakarta Post1998-12-09.PDF


  • ‘The Indonesian Lesson’ (brief version) Jakarta Post1998 (Op.cit. with PDF in article-essay section – Indonesia.)


  • ‘Whither Studies of Asian Democratisation?’ in KasarinlanUniversity of the Philippines. 1997; 12 (1) and Economic and Political Weekly.1998-01; 33 (3).PDF


  • ‘Violence in Paradise’, in Economic and Political Weekly1998-01:33(4) and with the title ‘The Dark Side of Paradise’, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 30:4 (1998). PDF


  • ‘From New to Human Order in Indonesia?’ InNIAS nytt, 3, October 1996 and Economic and Political Weekly, October 5, 1996,PDF


  • ‘Old Communism Irrelevant’ (during the crackdown on democracy activists branded as communists) in Jakarta Post,1996-08-23.PDF

Research based debate/op-ed. – in Scandinavia

(Selected texts; and not inclusive of contributions to radio & TV)

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  • Kubanska läkare hjälper till i kampen mot Corona – vi kan hjälpa Kuba, (med Vegard Bye) Dagens ETC, 2020.04.25 (https://www.etc.se/debatt/kubanska-lakare-hjalper-till-i-kampen-mot-corona-vi-kan-hjalpa-kuba


  • Inåtvänd vänsterpolitik bakom Labours valförlustDagens ETC2020-01-06 https://www.etc.se/debatt/inatvand-vansterpolitik-bakom-labours-forlust/



  • Flyktingpolitiken är inte 'klassiskt socialdemokratisk' iETC Magasin 17- 2018-06-01PDF


  • ’Ingen demokrati utan välfärd’Om Världen2017-01-10PDF


      • Så kan vi nå ett 'global deal',Dagens Arena,June 30, 2016-06-30. PDF


        • ’Glemselens Politikk’Klassekampen09.15; Replik KlassekampenPDF;


      • ’Glömskans Politik’,Dagens Nyheter09.15PDF


      • De mäktiga skiftar sina prioriteringar -- till förmån för vad? Dagens ETC, 27/01/2015. PDF


    • Sterk stat först? Fra nyliberalisme til gammeletatisme.Klassekampen 8 PDF november, 2014 , replik (hvordan bygge en effektiv stat) Klassekampen22 november, 2014 PDF





  • ’Problemet är provinsialismen, inte socialdemokratin’ARENA02.07PDFog ISV blogg www.sv.uio.no/isv/forskning/aktuelt/blogg/ta-politika/2011/svenska-socialdemokratin.html


  • ‘Ny vår för demokratin’? Samfunnsviteren. (2011) ISSN 0805-7206. 18(3), s 14 - 16. PDF


  • ’Tsunami-biståndet i Aceh kan missa historisk chans’,Göteborgs Posten, Januari 2006.PDF


  • ‘Nästa fredspris - för freden’.PDF


  • ’Kampen måste gå vidare: aktivisten Munir stod för det bästa i den indonesiska demokratirörelsen’, Dagens Nyheter17 november, 2004. PDF


  • ‘Bistand og demokratibygging’, Dagbladet, 1 april, 2004.PDF


  • ’Kriget stärker extremisterna’,Dagens Nyheter,19 november 2001. PDFÄven i Ny Tid med titeln ’Den globala alliansen och demokratin’, 16 november 2001.


  • ‘Steinrike, nyfattige Norge’, Dagbladet, Desember 12, 2000, Syn og Segn and Samfunnsviteren, PDF


  • ‘Asias krise: globalisert røveri, lokalt despoti, nytt demokrati?’Dagbladet(Nettavisen) 2000-02-22. Også iNy Tid3 mars 2000: ‘Globalt røveri eller lokalt despoti?’PDF


  • ‘Östtimorkommittens första ordförande (1975-1979) minns.’Östtimorbulletinen/ Merdeka2000-02; årgång 5 (11) PDF


  • ‘Frykt ikke sannheten’, Ny Tid, 20-26 mai, 2000. PDF


  • ’Indonesia, dagen derpå’, Ny Tid, 1-7 januari, 2000.PDF


  • ’Födslen til verdens tredje störste demokrati’ - Ny Tid, Oslo, 1999-09-03.PDF


  • ‘Den vingliga vägen mot demokrati’, Svenska Dagbladet, 22 December, 1999;PDF


  • ’Kommentar: Östtimor -- folkliga aktioner är det enda som biter’ Svenska Dagbladet1999-09-28.PDF(Även i Merdeka & Östtimor informationnr.10, 1999) samt på norsk ’Folkelige aksjoner nytter!’, Ny Tid, nr. 36, 1/10/99) PDF


  • Indonesiens val en demokratisk seger’ – ArbetarenSAC, Stockholm. 1999-09 (35). PDF


  • ‘Analys av läget i indonesien och krisens bakgrund -- når ökonomer bare tenker ökonomi’, Ny Tid1998-05-21.


  • ’Hjälp till en katastrof: Olle Törnquist ser Väst satsa fel ännu en gång i Indonesien’. Aftonbladet, 8 april 1998. PDF


  • ’Den Indonesiska Läxan’, iMerdeka & Östtimor Information7/1998,Svenska DagbladetStockholm. 1998-09-13, in SwedishPDF


  • ’Våldet i paradiset’, iDagens Nyheter1998-01-20PDF


  • ’Paradiset och det politiska våldet’, i Merdeka och Östtimorinformation. 1997; 3


  • ’Den enda vägen är den smala vägen’, inSvenska Dagbladetmed titeln September 22, 1996.PDF

Yet, kind and gentle... (Highland cattle in Jim Scott’s stable)

(Publications from 1990 until 1996 not yet retrieved)


  • ’Olle Törnquist om staten och demokratin. Det räcker inte att byta socialism mot kapitalism’,Sida Rapport, 3/1990PDF


  • ’Den snabba utvecklingens baksida’ (Tiananmen square in a comparative perspective) i Dagens Nyheter, June 12, 1989. PDF


  • ’Indonesien: protester mot brutal expansion’, i SIDA Rapport, nr. 2, 1984.PDF


  • ’Indonesien och kolonialismen: Max Havelaar och Pramoedya's romankvartett’, i Sveriges Radio: Obs-magasinet, 25/3-83. PDF


  • ’Om beroendeskolan’, i Zenit, nr. 4, 1983. PDF


  • ’Från analys till film’, i Film & TV, no. 4/1983. An analysis of a semi-documentary film based on prof. Erich Jacoby's book "Man and Land". PDF


  • ’Stöd åt tillväxt eller demokrati?’ i Stockholms Tidningen, October 19, 1983. PDF


  • ’Öst-timors kamp - kort historik fram till den indonesiska invasionen’, iÖst-Timor: det glömda kriget, Öst-Timor kommittén, Stockholm, 1981. PDF


  • ‘De visade oss kriget och människorna’, (They showed us the war and the people: A critical analysis of Lennart Malmer's and Ingala Romare's documentary films on Vietnam), i Film & TV, no 23-24, 1980. PDF


  • (under pseudonym) ‘Indonesisk resa 1—8’, i Aftonbladet, February 28, and 29, March 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, and 14, 1980. PDF


  • (Med Kenneth Hermele) ‘There is no business like agro-business - ett samtal med Erich H. Jacoby’, iKommentar3/78.PDF


  • ’Island - en politisk vulkan’, i Ny Dag, nr. 54, 1978. PDF


  • (Med Thommy Svensson); ’Den nygamla kinesiska utrikespolitiken’, i Aftonbladet, 30 december, 1971. PDF

Debate – academic priorities & freedom

  • Debatt 2017 iAftenpostenmed UiO rektor om new public management och hot mot akademisk frihet:PDF

https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/rQyw0/Nye-trusler-mot-den-akademiske-frihet--Olle-Trnquist


https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/O49vl/-La-det-ikke-vare-noen-tvil-om-den-akademiske-frihet---Svein-Stolen


https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/zapVw/Kort-sagt_-fredag-22-september

  • ‘Appendix 1: Implementation against odds: The Indonesian Story’ (self-evaluation of the research based democracy promotion in Indonesia), in Törnquist, O.Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation’ (2013) Op.cit. with PDF in book section


  • ’Statsvetenskapen och ‘det globala syd’ – kommentarer till Göran Hydéns minnen;Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift2011, årgång 113:3.PDF


  • ‘Of Concerned Scholarship’, in Williams, Gavin, (ed.): Essays presented to Björn Beckman on his 60th birthday, CRD, Kano (Nigeria), 2004. PDF


  • ‘Development Studies Between Fashion and Reality: Reflection on the Norwegian Impasse’, in Forum for Development Studies,Vol. 29:1, 2002. PDF(RejoinderPDFto Stein Tønnesson).


  • ‘Synpunkter på SAREC's fortsatta stöd till forskning om demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter’ (Sakkunnigutlåtande) (Comments on SAREC's future plans for support to research on democracy and human rights), Uppsala, 1994. (Available on request)


  • ‘Utvecklingen i tredje världen och den svenska utvecklings­forskningens relevans’, (The transformation of the third world and the relevance of Swedish development research: A report from a conference arranged by the Akut group with Swedish social science oriented scholars on the third world and the Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries. September 28-30, 1983.), theAkut-series no. 29, Uppsala University, 1984. (Available on request)


  • ’Kritisk solidaritet och solidarisk kritik’, i Kommentar8/1980. PDF

Lokal debatt (urval)

Kungshamn, Sotenäs

 

I: On public planning real estate speculation and citizen rights: the case of Sotenäs municipality (in Swedish)
















II. On unreliable public service' election-compass




 

III. In defence of liberal democracy (vs. the Swedish-democrats)




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