Walking the middle path
The characteristics of Indonesia's rise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4748639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Awidya Santikajaya (Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-586 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020702016686381 |
| OpenAlex | W2587452455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
This article provides a framework to help understand Indonesia's rise. Although the study of emerging powers has flourished in recent years, much discussion is devoted to explaining large emerging powers, such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Indonesia's rise is overlooked because its material capabilities are less than those of the BRIC countries. In order to characterize the emergence of Indonesia, this article establishes a set of parameters to distinguish Indonesia from BRIC and middle powers. The parameters are: (1) attitude toward the international order; (2) performed role; and (3) nexus between regional and global roles. This article argues that Indonesia displays three characteristics that distinguish it from BRIC and middle powers-(1) soft-revisionist; (2) normative bridge building; and (3) accommodative regional leadership. The third and fourth sections of this article test these characteristics through G20 and climate change case studies. This article concludes that the characteristics of Indonesia's emergence are located in a conundrum between those of BRIC and middle powers. Although it shares some characteristics with BRIC countries, Indonesia is carefully trying to keep a distance from BRIC and to maintain strategic autonomy in relations with other international actors
Autonomy · BRIC · China · Economics · Economy · Emerging markets · International trade · Nexus (standard · Normative · Order (exchange · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Engineering · Law
The Rise and Return of the Indo-Pacific
Brokering Peace
Role Legitimation in Foreign Policy
Certification as strategy
Middle power, status-seeking and role conceptions
Settling outside the WTO
When trade and foreign policy collide
Reconciling revisionism with the status quo in IR
Indonesia enters the multipolar era by joining BRICS
Back to the past
Crafting consensus
Middle Powers in the Indo‐Pacific
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |