Dr Andrew Rosser

Biography/ Background

I am a political economist who works on development issues in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and Timor Leste. My main interests are the resource curse, the political economy of policy-making, the politics of inclusion, rebuilding governance in fragile states, and corporate governance/corporate social responsibility. I am Convenor of the Bachelor of Development Studies at Adelaide, teach undergraduate courses in that program, and coordinate the ACICIS Development Studies Professional Practicum. I have worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), AusAID, the University of Sydney and Murdoch University and acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Oxfam, UNRISD, UNDP, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Publications

Sole-Authored Books

2002 The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Indonesia, Richmond: Curzon.

Edited Collections

2006 IDS Bulletin: Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States, 37 (2).

Articles in Refereed Journals

Forth. The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia, (with Donni Edwin), Pacific Review.

2009 Risk Management, Neoliberalism, and Coercion: The Asian Development Bank's Approach to "Fragile States," Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (3), pp.376-389.

2008 Introduction: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Australian Aid Policy, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62 (3), pp.315-318.

2008 Neo-liberalism and the Politics of Aid Policy-Making in Australia, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62 (3), pp.372-385.

2007 Escaping the Resource Curse: The Case of Indonesia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 37 (1), pp.38-58.

2006 Escaping the Resource Curse, New Political Economy, 11 (4), pp.557-570.

2005 Indonesia: the Politics of Inclusion, (with Kurnya Roesad and Donni Edwin), Journal of Contemporary Asia, 35 (1), pp.53-77.

2003 Coalitions, Convergence and Corporate Governance Reform in Indonesia, Third World Quarterly, 24 (2), 2003, pp.319-338. reprinted in K. Jayasuriya (ed.) Asian Regional Governance: Crisis and Change, London: RoutledgeCurzon.

2001 Economic Orthodoxy and the Asian Economic Crisis (with Kanishka Jayasuriya), Third World Quarterly, 22 (3), pp.381-396.

1998 Contesting Reform: Indonesias New Order and the IMF (with Richard Robison), World Development, August, pp.1593-1609.

Articles in Non-refereed Journals

2006 Introduction, IDS Bulletin: Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States, 37 (2), pp.1-13.

2006 Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, IDS Bulletin: Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States, 37 (2), pp. 27-39.

2006 Indonesia, IDS Bulletin: Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States, 37 (2), pp.53-66.

Book Chapters with Commercial Academic Presses

Forth. Natural Resources and Social Development: Issues and Evidence in K. Hujo (ed.) Financing Social Policy, Houndmills and Geneva: Palgrave and UN Research Institute for Social Development.

2009 Rebuilding Governance in Failed States: An Illustration from Timor Leste in Wil Hout and Richard Robison (eds.) Development and the Politics of Governance, London: Routledge.

2008 The Political Economy of International Financial Reform Since the Asian Crisis The Case of Corporate Governance in J. Robertson (ed.) Power and Politics after Financial Crises: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism in Emerging Markets, London: Palgrave, pp.102-124.

2007 The Transition Support Program in Timor Leste in J. Manor (ed.) Making Aid Work in Fragile States, Washington: World Bank, pp.59-84.

2007 The First and Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Projects in Timor Leste in J. Manor (ed.) Making Aid Work in Fragile States, Washington: World Bank, pp.123-143.

2006 Pathways From the Crisis: Politics and Reform in Southeast Asia Since 1997 (with Kanishka Jayasuriya) in G. Rodan et al (eds.), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed, pp.258-282.

2005 Development in International Financial Policies (with Stephany Griffith-Jones and Ricardo Gottschalk) in OECD Fostering Development in a Global Economy: A Whole of Government Perspective, Paris: OECD, pp.83-114.

2005 The Political Economy of Corporate Governance in Indonesia in Ho Khai Leong (ed.) Reforming Corporate Governance in Southeast Asia, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 180-199.

2005 The Politics of Financial Sector Vulnerability in Indonesia in K.S. Jomo (ed.), After the Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in Four Asian Economies, Singapore University Press, Singapore, pp.98-115.

2003 What Paradigm Shift? Public Sector Reform in Indonesia Since the Asian Crisis in I. Scott and A. Cheung (eds.) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual? Richmond: Curzon, pp.227-247.

2003 Globalisation, International Norms, and the Politics of Accounting Reform in Indonesia in G. Underhill and X. Zhang (eds.), What Is To Be Done? Global Economic Disorder and Policies for a New International Financial Architecture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.263-282.

2001 Economic Crisis and the Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Southeast Asia (with Kanishka Jayasuriya) in G. Rodan et al (eds.), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. pp.233-258.

1999 Surviving the Meltdown: Liberal Reform and Political Oligarchy in Indonesia (with Richard Robison) in R. Robison et al (eds.), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis, Routledge, pp.171-191.

1998 The Political Economy of Institutional Reform in Indonesia: The Case of Intellectual Property Law in K. Jayasuriya (ed.), Law, Capitalism and Power: The Rule of Law and Legal Institutions, Routledge, pp.95-117.

1995 Australia and the New World in Asia: The Economic Dimension (with Richard Robison) in H. Soesastro and T. McDonald (eds.), Indonesia-Australia Relations: Diverse Cultures, Converging Interests, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, pp.132-167.

Selected Other Publications

2006 The Political Economy of the Resource Curse: A Literature Survey, IDS Working Paper 268.

1998 The East Asian Economic Crisis: A Brief Overview of the Facts, the Issues and the Future, Asia Research Centre Working Paper, No. 86.

1998 From Chaos to Disaster, The Weekend Australian, 23-24 May.

1997 Reform Bid Loses Steam, The Australian, 15 August, p.38.

Entry last updated: Saturday, 19 Dec 2009