Frans Djalong
Peneliti, Penulis, dan Analis Ekonomi Politik, Demokrasi, dan Geopolitik

Third World Forum, Dakar, SenegalThis paper reminds us what was really Bandung and non-alignment, which the author understands as having been in its time “non-alignment on the imperialist pattern of globalisation” of the time. Today, again, states and societies of the global South are the victims of the pattern of imperialist unipolar globalisation… Baca Selengkapnya
I begin this article with the words of my best-loved Russian poet Alexander Blok, who is comparable in his gift of clairvoyance to the greatest Russian genius Fyodor Dostoevsky. I have long been watching the world inexorably moving towards a wave of military conflicts threatening to develop into a third world thermonuclear war… Baca Selengkapnya
Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term as Russia’s President. Mainstream Western Russian “experts” paint Putin as a corrupt autocrat governing over a failed system and nation. Their “reality” couldn’t be further from the truth. In her July 27, 2020, review of Catherine Belton’s book, Putin’s People, in The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum concluded that following… Baca Selengkapnya
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call: it was time to move past the vision of a post‒Cold War world in which regimes in Moscow and Beijing would become responsible stakeholders in a rules-based international order. What has emerged, instead, is an increasingly contentious world plagued by authoritarian aggression, most dangerously… Baca Selengkapnya
As is traditional, the month of May in Russia is marked by the broad celebrations commemorating the anniversary of the Great Victory. The defeat of Nazi Germany—an achievement to which our country made a decisive contribution, with the support from our Allies—paved the way for the post-war international order, with the UN Charter… Baca Selengkapnya
Multiculturalism and pluralism have occupied central stage in contemporary talk. Comtemporarines of this talk relates to the increasing tension between national and transnational dimensions and sources of identity construction and formation. Quite in contrast with pluralism as political category, multiculturalism seems to be the most debated and contested theoretical and practical project world-wide.… Baca Selengkapnya