1. Demokratisering og inkluderende utvikling(Democratisation and inclusive development).

This is a yearly bilingual lecture during the concluding course for BA-level students in development studies at the University of Oslo.

The focus is on the problems of the third wave of democracy and the challenges of combining democratisation with sustainable rights

and welfare based development.

2. Vad orsakade och karaktäriserade det politiska folkmordet i Indonesien 1965-1966?(What were the causes and character of the political genocide in Indonesia 1965-1966?)

This was a yearly contribution to Professor Bernt Hagtvet’s popular course at the University of Oslo on human rights and genocide

which, unfortunately terminated after his retirement. The lecture may now be given separately. It draws extensively on results recently

summarised in my review article ‘The legacies of the Indonesian counter-revolution: New insights and remaining issues’ Journal of

Contemporary Asia (2019) ttps://DOI:10.1080/00472336.2019.1616105.PDF

3. Politikk i sør: normer og realiteter under den andre og tredje demokratiseringsbølgen

Detta är en föreläsning om den tredje demokrativågens uppgång och fall, och konsekvenser för Nord, inom ramen för masterkursen

’RETKOM4123 – Ideer, diskurser og makt: Kritiske perspektiver på tekst og samfunn’, Universitetet i Oslo.

www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/RETKOM4123/

4. Kerala Efforts at Inclusive Development in View of the Global Crisis of Social Democracy

The public Puthupally Raghavan Memorial Lecture, November 2018, arranged by the Kerala Council for Historical Research. See

published version of the lecture.PDF

5. Indonesia’s New Populist Order and Diffused Progressives in Comparative Perspective.

Public lecture at University of the Philippines, 2018.

Published in CIDS discussion paper series 18-002 ISSN 2619–7448 (print) ISSN 2619–7456

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6. Varför hotas demokratin i det globala Syd?

Offentlig populärt formulerad föreläsning i flera editioner.

Recent teaching and related supervision

(for most recent items, see the frontpage!)

Recent teaching and related supervision

1. BA course on ‘Politics and Development’ with the Department of Political Science andtheSocial Science Faculty’s unit for Development Studies.

This popular basic course on Politics and Development for BA-students focused on (i) general theories of politics and development, (ii) state and society relations, (iii) weak and strong state in the Global South, (iv) cleavage and collective action, (v) problems and options of democratisation and equal citizenship, (vi) politics and development cooperation, (vii) empirical cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

The course was terminated by the Department of Political Science in the mid-2010s in conjunction with my sabbatical leave. The structure, or individual lectures, may be reinvented in other frameworks.

2. MA and PhD courses with the Department of Political Science.

The following well-attended courses were terminated in the mid-late-2010s by the Department of Political Science when losing interest in contextual studies of Global South politics, thus also concluding its international student and research exchange with Indonesia and India. The courses, or individual lectures, may be reinvented in other frameworks. For example, the first course on social democratic development was transformed into a two-day staff development course at the Olof Palme International Center in 2017.

'Democracy and Social Democratic Development in the Global South',http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/statsvitenskap/STV4352B/

http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/statsvitenskap/STV9352/

These courses engaged in three basic discussions in the study of politics and development. The first question is under what conditions democracy of various standards is possible in developing countries. The courses provided an historical review of theories and actual outcomes, with special emphasis on the character and problems of the third wave of democratisation. The second question is about the causes for current stagnation of democracy. Main attention was drawn to the roots of depoliticisation, poor governance and elitist representation. To overcome these challenges, the research behind the course suggests that more social democratic oriented development is needed. Hence, the third question is whether and how this would be possible. A number of historical and current experiences were interrogated in the largest democracies of India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa but also in Burma and Scandinavia. The results are fundamental for local priorities but also within international cooperation. The courses were based on the research carried out in a leading international network of scholars, co-directed from Oslo.

'Welfare Regimes in Asia and Scandinavia in Comparative Perspective: Changes and Challenges'

http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/statsvitenskap/stv9363/

The global economy is undergoing rapid change; the centre of gravity is moving eastward; and increasing worries are expressed over the future of the established welfare state in Europe. In Asia, at the same time, new ambitions and new forms of welfare regimes are emerging. The reading of efforts at Social Democracy in quite different contexts against each other remains important, but this course broadens the geographical spectra and focus more specifically on citizen rights and welfare policies. Our research so far indicates that these issues are crucial in the development of more unified counter movements, especially in the Global South. The course followed up on the book ‘Reinventing Social Democratic Development – Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons’ (Lead Editors Olle Törnquist and John Harriss) and a doctoral students’ course and a scholarly workshop on the same theme organised jointly by the JNU and UiO, in Delhi in March 2015. This subsequent course was arranged in conjunction with an international scholarly workshop aimed at a comprehensive survey, based on comparative materials, of models of welfare from Scandinavia to South Africa, and India to South Korea. The focus was on four themes:

1. New welfare policy regimes: theoretical and comparative perspectives. How might we rethink extant classifications of the welfare state to better grasp both trends in the Global North and new efforts in the Global South?
2. Are European welfare regimes being undermined after the financial crisis, further complicated by migration and the refugee crisis?
3. Working life and welfare provisioning. It is often maintained that, in the Scandinavian model, generous welfare allowances generate economic growth. Investigating the mechanisms between these factors makes it possible to understand whether and how such a happy coincidence can be repeated in other parts of the world.
4. Transformative rights and welfare policies. Our results so far suggest that while the current conditions in the Global South differ from those that enabled social and political forces to fight for the combination of equity and growth during late industrialisation in the North. Counter movements might now converge behind citizen and labour rights and welfare agendas as well as improved governance to implement such reforms – but how?

1. Demokratisering og inkluderende utvikling(Democratisation and inclusive development).

This is a yearly bilingual lecture during the concluding course for BA-level students in development studies at the University of Oslo.

The focus is on the problems of the third wave of democracy and the challenges of combining democratisation with sustainable rights

and welfare based development.

2. Vad orsakade och karaktäriserade det politiska folkmordet i Indonesien 1965-1966?(What were the causes and character of the political genocide in Indonesia 1965-1966?)

This was a yearly contribution to Professor Bernt Hagtvet’s popular course at the University of Oslo on human rights and genocide

which, unfortunately terminated after his retirement. The lecture may now be given separately. It draws extensively on results recently

summarised in my review article ‘The legacies of the Indonesian counter-revolution: New insights and remaining issues’ Journal of

Contemporary Asia (2019) ttps://DOI:10.1080/00472336.2019.1616105.PDF

3. Politikk i sør: normer og realiteter under den andre og tredje demokratiseringsbølgen

Detta är en föreläsning om den tredje demokrativågens uppgång och fall, och konsekvenser för Nord, inom ramen för masterkursen

’RETKOM4123 – Ideer, diskurser og makt: Kritiske perspektiver på tekst og samfunn’, Universitetet i Oslo.

www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/RETKOM4123/

4. Kerala Efforts at Inclusive Development in View of the Global Crisis of Social Democracy

The public Puthupally Raghavan Memorial Lecture, November 2018, arranged by the Kerala Council for Historical Research. See

published version of the lecture.PDF

5. Indonesia’s New Populist Order and Diffused Progressives in Comparative Perspective.

Public lecture at University of the Philippines, 2018.

Published in CIDS discussion paper series 18-002 ISSN 2619–7448 (print) ISSN 2619–7456

//issuu.com/up.cids/docs/up_cids_dp_series_18-002

6. Varför hotas demokratin i det globala Syd?

Offentlig populärt formulerad föreläsning i flera editioner.

Reports and working papers

(Selection) (Papers without link to PDF are available on request)

• Full report from concluding conference on the Power, Welfare Democracy research programme (with Vegar Arnesen and Kristian Stokke) Power, welfare and democracy: Lessons from Indonesia in Comparative Perspectives, especially Myanmar and Scandinavia. University of Oslo, 29-30 Nov. 2017. PDF

• Research-Based Democracy Promotion. Learning from an Indonesian Pilot Programme. Report commissioned by the Swedish development Co-operation Agency with the Norwegian Embassy to Jakarta. Oslo and Jogjakarta: University of Oslo and the PCD Press 2008. For the basic conclusions, see ‘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) cit. with PDF in book section

• Democratic Political Blocks (DPBs) (With the affiliated association of politicians for meaningful democracy (pmd) What? Why? How?) Internal Report for Demos, December 2007.

• ‘The Role Of Democracy in Aceh’ Paper to 7th EUROSEAS Conference at University of Naples, 12-15 September 2007: Panel 32: The Politics of Post-Conflict Aceh: In-depth Analysis and Comparative Perspectives.

• ‘Problems and Option of Scaling-Up and Building Democratic Representation’, Contribution on early results from field studies to Demos executive report on preliminary conclusions from thematic studies, Jakarta April 2007.

• Labour, Capital and Post Colonial Democracy Comparative Notes From Indonesia And India. Draft paper to Conference on “Trade Unions and Politics: Africa in a Comparative Perspective”, Johannesburg, 21-22 July, and  the RC 44 sessions at the International Sociological Association World Congress, Durban, 23-29, July, 2006.

• Four Questions to Experienced Pro-Democrats in Indonesia on the Major Dilemmas of Moving Ahead. Manuscript for Demos, Jogjakarta 2006.

• ‘The New Local Civil Society: Perspectives from the North and The South’. Paper to The Forum for Local Democracy, University of Oslo, February 2, 2006.

• Politicisation and Democracy: Towards Contextual South-North Comparisons under Global Neo-Liberalism, Project proposal to the Oslo University Politics Department's joint research programme, November, 18, 2004.

• Riset Nasional Demos Putaran Ii (2004/2005). Masalah-Masalah dan Pilihan-Pilihan Demokratisasi Di Indonesia. Kuesioner. (with A. E. Priyono et al) Jakarta: Demos, 2004.

• Re-Politicisation of Democracy In Developing Countries: Reflections on an Emerging Trend, Paper toworkshop on 'Supporting Political Party Systems', arranged by SIDA and the Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, October 13, 2004; Published in an anthology from Sida, Stockholm, Sweden.

• ‘Democratic Actors and Their Constituents in Indonesia’, in Report from the International Conference on Democracy and Human Rights, Göteborg, 2-5 October, 2003. Centre for Asien Studies, Göteborgs Universitet, 2004.

• Assessing and Supporting Democratisation in Indonesia: A User Oriented Approach. Proposal to NORAD and Sida for an integrated Democracy Research and Studies Programme, University of Oslo, December 2002.

• Towards an Actor Oriented Approach to Democratisation Assessment, Paper to “democracy Assessment and Indicators: a Global Policy-Development Seminar, Organised by International IDEA and the Local Politics and Democratisation Network, University of Oslo, 21-22, October 2002.

• The Missing Link in New Popular Politics of Democratisation, Paper to the ECPR workshop on Parties, Party Systems and Democratic Consolidation, Grenoble, 6-11, April, 2001.

• The Role of Labour Unions in the Process of Democratisation in Asia (Eds. with Gunnar Handeland), Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, 2000.

• The 9 Asia Workshop Hearings 1999-2000, in co-operation with the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

• Kritiska variabler i förhållandet mellan staten och det civila samhället illustrerat av utvecklingen i Indonesien – Key note paper to seminar on Demokratisering og ökonomisk utvikling - hva kommer först? Lom, Fossheim (arrangerat av FNI). 1999-10-14.

• Democratic Actors and Their Constituents in Indonesia: Joint report on the ongoing project about democratic processes till the fall of Suharto and proposal to continue by analysing the role and capacity of democratic actors during the current transition from authoritarian rule – “From Crackdown to Democracy?”; (with Arief Budiman). Oslo, Jakarta and Melbourne, Sept. 1998

• Of Civil Society: Theoretical Reflections with Indian and Southeast Asian Illustrations, Contribution to the conference Civil Society, Authoritarianism, and Globalisation Stockholm/Bergendal. 1998-09.

• The Dynamics of Democratisation in Indonesia: A Comparative Perspective – Paper read at the 1998 seminar series Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth. 1998-12-16.

• Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia – the EUROSEAS 98 conference: Looking forward, Looking Back, Hamburg. 1998-09 and the Conference on Democratisation in Indonesia and the question of East Timor Jakarta; Universitas Paramadina Mulya. 1998-11-30.

• The Transition to Democracy In Indonesia – Key-note paper to the conference Toward structural reforms for democratisation in Indonesia: Problems and Prospects Jakarta (Indonesian Institute of Scienses and Ford Foundation). 1998-08.

• Aborted Democratisation: Suharto's Victory and the IMF's Lack of an Alternative – Key note paper to seminar on Indonesia's Crisis: Roots and Prospects Nobelinstitutet, Oslo (organiser: The Pacific Asia Network). 1998-04-21

• Politics, Parties and Democratisation: Theoretical Reflections on Concrete Cases in Indonesia, Kerala and The Philippines -- ECPR Joint sessions 1998; Workshop 2:Change and Continuity in the Roles of Parties in Democratisation, University of Warwick, UK. 1998-03

• Analysis of the Situation In Indonesia: The Wild Beast and The Sleeping Beauty,report to Indonesia hearing with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1998-02-16.

• Kommentarer till världsbanksrapporten om stat och styre i den tredje världen, Paper to Norsk Institutt for by- og regionforskning, Oslo. 1997-12-11

• On Popular Philippine Politics of Democratisation in Comparative Perspective -- European Conference on Philippine Studies Aix-en-Provence. 1997-04-27.

• Marginal Notes on Impressive Attempts -- On the Efforts at Democractic Decentralisation and Planning from Below in Kerala; Paper to International Kerala Conference, New Dehli. 1996-12-09.

• Summary of Tentative Conclusions from Restudy of the Popular Politics of Democratisation in the Philippines.Uppsala University, 1995.

• New Popular Movements and the Middle Classes in the Process of Democratisation. Paper to the 1 st. European Association for South-East Asian Studies Conference, Leiden, June 1995.

• (with Anders Uhlin), Democracy in the Third World: Frontiers of Research and Possible Syntheses, Uppsala and Lund, January 1995.

• ’Synpunkter på Sarec's fortsatta stöd till forskning om demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter’ (1994) /op.cit. Debate-academic focus and freedom)

• What's Wrong with Third World Marxism? Political Lessons from Indonesia, India and the Philippines: The Akut-series no.44, Uppsala University, 1991. (Also (somewhat shortened) in Frontier (Calcutta) Vol 23, no. 43, June 8, 1991.)

• State and Agrarian Transformation: Critique of an Indian and Indonesian debate. Working paper Uppsala University 1989.

• U-landsforskare i Uppsala med intresse för samhälls­vetenskapliga utvecklingsproblem, en kartläggning 1986/87. (Social science oriented scholars on the third world in Uppsala with an intertest in problems of development: an annotated inventory), Uppsala University, the Faculty of Social Sciences, 1987.

• Problems of Radical Peasant Struggles in Contemporary Indonesia, in Rural Transformation in Southeast Asia, (Eds.) Christer Gunnarsson, Mason C. Hoadley, and Peter Wad, Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies, Lund, 1987

• Problems of Radical Political Strategy under the Rise of New Capitalism: South and Southeast Asia in a comparative perspective; The Akut-series no. 28, Uppsala 1984.

• Utvecklingen i tredje världen och den svenska utvecklings­forskningens relevans, (1984) cit. in section Debate-Academic debate and freedom

• Problems of Class Analysis — Contradictions and Social Movements in the Third World: Report from a Nordic seminar, Uppsala, April 23-25, 1982. The Akut-series no.23, Uppsala University, 1982.

• U-landspolitik på storföretagens villkor. (with Björn Beckman);  Kommentarer till 1977 års Industribiståndsutredning.(SWEDIC: Swedish third world policy conditioned by big-business. Comments on the 1977 committee report on assistance for industrial development), Uppsala University, the Akut-group, 1977.

Flying dogs. Delicious, they say, in Tentena. C. Sulawesi

Leftovers

(Selection)

• (with John Harriss) Indian Experiments in Social Democracy: The Case of Kerala (updated chapter 3 in 'Reinventing Social Democratic Development for translation and publication in Malayalam – which did not materialise)

 Ruteng,  Flores

• Aceh: Veranda of lost opportunities – (left over ms. from 2012, for a collapsed anthology). PDF

• Civic action and deficit democracy (left over ms from 2007, for a collapsed anthology; ms. was updated and published elsewhere) PDF