Status
Assistant Professor
Contact
msmalley@nps.edu
Research Interests
Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; State formation, failure and survival; Causes and consequences of decentralization in developing countries |
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Biography
Michael S. Malley is assistant professor of comparative politics in the department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He teaches classes in comparative politics, as well as others focused on the domestic politics, political economy, and international relations of Southeast Asia. He speaks Indonesian fluently and has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Indonesia since the late 1980s.
Dr. Malley's research is focused on issues of state formation, state failure and survival, and regime change in Southeast Asia. He has particular expertise in the area of center-local relations, decentralization policy, and provincial politics and political economy in Indonesia. His research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, National Security Education Program, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the US-Indonesian Society, and a Fulbright scholarship. His recent publications include several book chapters and articles: "Regions: Centralization and Resistance" (1999), "Beyond Democratic Elections: Indonesia Embarks on a Protracted Transition" (2000), "Class, Region, and Culture: The Sources of Social Conflict in Indonesia" (2001), "Indonesia: Violence and Reform beyond Jakarta" (2001), "State Institutions and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia" (2002), and "New Rules, Old Structures, and the Limits of Indonesia’s Democratic Decentralization" (2003).
Professor Malley earned his doctorate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after receiving a master's degree in Southeast Asian Studies from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. As part of these academic programs he also studied at the National University of Singapore and two Indonesian universities, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and IKIP in Malang.
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