Faculty & Research

• October 2022
• Teaching Material

Proactive for Her Supplement I

• 2022
• Article
• Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment

The Third Indochina War called forth dramatic changes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. Foremost among these changes was a shift in the geopolitical orientation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The organization’s founders established ASEAN in 1967 to contain Chinese influence in Southeast Asia. But in the wake of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in late 1978, ASEAN forged a tacit alliance with the People’s Republic of China to pursue a campaign of rollback against Vietnam. This article argues that ASEAN's volte-face and China’s reentry into networks of regional diplomacy depended upon a shift in Indonesian threat perceptions. As political Islam displaced Chinese communism as the key threat fixating Indonesian policy, the Suharto regime abandoned its longstanding attempts to integrate Vietnam into the architecture of regional order and instead accommodated itself to a Thai-led effort to enlist China as a counterweight against Vietnam. The reorientation of Indonesian diplomacy reveals the dynamics of a phenomenon that anthropologist Heonik Kwon has called the “decomposition” of the Cold War – the geographically and temporally uneven erosion of the Cold War as a social reality and the gradual elaboration of a post-Cold War era.

• June 2022
• Article
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization

A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs

In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at the United States Department of State – aligned behind activity-based costing/management in a multi-country initiative to track resource allocation and funding for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative will generate detailed information, down to the patient level, on the costs of delivering HIV care. The initiative recognizes that governments and global institutions need to align and optimize their investments, particularly during a transition in which the governments assume greater fiscal responsibility for service delivery. The initiative will provide detailed information on where current investments are being directed and how this transition is shaping programs in reality. PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Global Fund will launch a Secretariat to coordinate the initiative’s activities and support the collaborative learning component across participating countries. The initiative could also serve as a model for examining the cost and delivery of other health services.