Adhi Cahya Fahadayna

Russia, as one of the key actors in international politics, faces problematic issues in Chinese-Taiwan Relations. As a significant player, Russia reserves a close and stable relationship with China. However, Russia could not avoid Taiwan's significant role in Northeast Asia, especially its role in allying with the West. Taiwan undoubtedly offers a promising prospect for the Russian economy, but political relations with Taiwan could not significantly contribute to Russian FP. In this paper, Russian foreign policy will be examined on both sides, Russian foreign policy toward China and Russian foreign policy toward Taiwan. The purposes of this paper are trying to analyze the Russian foreign policy dilemma toward China-Taiwan relation. The analysis of this paper will focus on President Vladimir Putin as the decision-maker and explore all circumstances that will influence the decision-making process. The level of analysis implemented in this paper is domestic politics that significantly contribute to Russian foreign policy decisionmaking. This paper will gather secondary data from the news, journal, and book as the primary sources. The paper's outcome analyzes Russian foreign policy's dilemma and explores how Russian foreign policy toward China-Taiwan relations' current dynamics.

The financial crisis is a chain of a phenomenon that has many implications. If financial crisis strikes a particular region, certainly, this will affect other regional areas. European financial crisis in 2011 was a phenomenon that would provide an enormous influence on the economic condition in Indonesia. In the extent of the crisis, Indonesian economic development could not be separated from the European economic crisis because Indonesian domestic financial instability could become a crucial aspect that would affect the impact of the European economic itself, even geographically Indonesia and Europe is not located in the same region. If Indonesia continues to expect with the existence of blessing in disguise, it possible that the condition might turn worse than a crisis that happened in 1997. The are a significant possibility of a crisis that would affect Indonesian economic stability. This paper will talk about the possibility of European crisis influence toward Indonesian economy and how Indonesian economy anomaly show the sign of the influence of crisis itself.

Perkembangan teknologi, informasi dan Komunikasi adalah fenomena yang tidak dapat dihindari. Fenomena perkembangan teknologi, informasi dan komunikasi akan menyetuh segala aspek kehidupan manusia. Dengan perkembangan teknologi, informasi dan komunikasi yang pesat akan memiliki dampak-dampak yang positif dan negatif. Dampak positif akan cenderung memudahkan manusia dalam melakukan kegiatan sehari-hari. Namun, dampak negatif yang deberikan akan sangat sulit diantisipasi. Dampak negatif yang ditimbulkan adalah adanya aksi atau tindakan yang dapat mengganggu stabilitas keamanan dan ketertiban serta tindakan melanggar hukum lainya. Tindakan negatif ini akan terjadi secara individual, senyap dan sangat abstrak. Solusi efektif dan efisien untuk mengatisipasi dampak negatif ini adalah melalui pengawasa terhadap warga negara. Namun, hal ini bertentangan ruang publik dan ruang privat yang melekat dalam individu tertentu. Ruang privat merupakan hak asasi dan hak sipil setiap warga negara, jika hal ini dapat diintervensi oleh negara maka privasi individu akan diambil alih ke ruang publik. Fragmentasi inilah yang dikikis habis oleh perkembangan teknologi, informasi dan komunikasi. Hal ini dikarenakan perkembangan teknologi, informasi dan komunikasi menghilangkan batasan-batasan yang ada.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country that has high petroleum reserves. Saudi Arabia also has a unique side in global politics configuration. Beside Saudi Arabia always be viewed as close ally of the United States, this country also known as the center for Islamic civilization and Islamic religion. Saudi Arabia still maintains the absolute monarchy as the fundamental foundation of state and government system. However, the wave of democratization in the modern world become stronger, Saudi Arabia continue to struggle for the existence of absolute monarchy as state’s main identity, which cannot be separated from the dogmatic doctrine of Islam. By owning highly petroleum reserves, Saudi Arabia uses the petroleum reserves as a geopolitical power as well as bargaining power for superpower state, such as United States. However, because of current situation in Middle East, people of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been made to rethink about irrelevancy of absolute monarchy in the development of civilization.

Sebagai salah satu new religious movements, Ikhwanul Muslimin yang memiliki organisasi yang modern dan sangat antusias terhadap konflik Israel-Palestina. Selain itu Ikhwanul Muslimin sebagai organisasi keagamaan memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap politik luar negeri Mesir setelah kemenangannya pada pemilu 2011-2012. Penelitian ini berusaha melihat signifikansi pergerakan keagamaan baru atau yang dikenal dengan new religious movements dengan melihat pengaruh Ikhwanul Muslimin dalam politik luar negeri Mesir dalam konflik Israel-Palestina. Ikhwanul Muslimin yang memiliki jaringan dan sayap politik yang kuat dan besar di Mesir. Dengan menggunakan isu konflik Israel-Palestina yang sangat identik dengan kepentingan keagamaan, Ikhwanul Muslimin mampu memberikan pengaruh pada perubahan politik luar negeri Mesir utamanya setelah kemenangannya dalam pemilu 2011-2012. Ikhwanul Muslimin dengan menjadikan agama sebagai instrument utama pergerakan mampu mendominasi politik Mesir pasca revolusi dan mampu memperoleh dukungan legitimasi dari rakyat Mesir. Dengan menggunakan penelitian eksplanatif, dan analisis data kualitatif penelitian ini menganalisis dan menjelaskan signifikansi kelompok dan agama dalam politik luar negeri sebuah negara.

This paper will discuss the US regionalism agenda towards ASEAN. ASEAN as the Southeast Asia only regional organizations has significant implications for US trade and economic agenda. This paper will try to understand what is the current policies that the US policymakers enforce in the Southeast Asia. This article will focus on multilateral diplomacy that the US has implemented and what the impact towards US interest in Southeast Asia. Additionally, it will discuss the future and prospect of ASEAN towards US regionalism agenda, more importantly with the rise of the Chinese economy. This paper also will try to find the significance of ASEAN towards the US regional initiatives to contend Chinese domination in Asia. This article will be using latest literature review this paper will focus on the current issue and provide critical approach on how ASEAN respond in the US agenda. More importantly to show what the direct impact of US regional agenda toward ASEAN, and vice versa. This paper will use SWOT analysis to underline the primary strategy of the US and significance of the ASEAN. This paper also uses qualitative data analysis for support the recommendation and analyses the future of ASEAN.

This topic will focus on how the religion could influence the post-conflict development in Aceh, Northern Indonesia. It will discuss the position and potency of religion in the conflict resolution with analysis how successful religion could stop the Aceh Conflict and bring peace to Acehnese people. This paper also will measure how important religion toward peacebuilding in Aceh. Moreover, this paper will explain the problem behind the Acehnese implementation sharia law and clash between societies that stimulated by the sharia law. This article uses secondary data that acquired from books and scholarly journals. This article also implements case study in which will analyzes the case of data that acquired from the research.