(re)Defining Responsibilities in Time of Fear: The Interlocking Role of State and International Financial Institutions in Economic Security

(re)Defining Responsibilities in Time of Fear: The Interlocking Role of State and International Financial Institutions in Economic Security

Jul 14, 2020 | Commentaries, Publication

Vol. I No. 4 | July 2020

Authors:
Annisa D. Amalia, Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia.
Makmur Keliat, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia.
Eric Sugandi, Project Consultant, Asia Development Bank Institute, Tokyo

Summary
Human security agenda often provokes a debate on “whose security to be protected, and by whom?”. The personal and national level of security are seen as mutually exclusive. The current global Covid-19 outbreak has taught us that resolving insecurities, most particularly the economic insecurities, cannot be detached from the government’s responsibility to boost the national economic recovery, for the sake of securing the (economic) life of the people. The bolstered state’s role here should not be regarded as the promotion of protectionism, but instead reinforce the need to advance an intensive collaboration between multiple stakeholders, particularly between the state and international financial institutions.

Keywords: Covid-19, economic security, economic recovery, financial institutions, international cooperation

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(re)Defining Responsibilities in Time of Fear: The Interlocking Role of State and International Financial Institutions in Economic Security

Nothing is Written in Stone: Redefining the Perception of Human Security through Arts

Jul 6, 2020 | Commentaries, Publication

Vol. I No. 3 | July 2020

Authors:
Annisa D. Amalia, Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia.
Evi Fitriani, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia.
Sally Texania, Visual Arts Independent Curator.

Summary
As the international society continue to witness varying forms of threats to humanity, the concept of ‘human security’ as introduced by the state has constantly been challenged for its inadequacy to capture and address the realities of human insecurity. The silver lining of this situation, however, relies on how those mainstream ideas of human securities are continuously contested and redefined through the medium of art. Through the use of alternative public and transnational space, art represents sincere aspirations of the people and facilitate them to realize their vision of their own – and others’ – (in)securities, beyond the imaginary, yet powerful, wall of sovereignty which serve the national and rational interests of the powerful actors.

Keywords: arts, human security, relational aesthetics, representations of (in)security

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