1.Whether the philosophy/foreign policy of Indonesia as seen through game theory facilitates cooperation or conflict; on whether the patterns of globalization in the country support the hyperglobalist, sceptics, or transformationalist view; and whether Indonesia’s winners and losers from the process of globalization are represented through the NIE, the SPG, the Outliers, or Feminist Economics perspective, Islamic Economics, and Asian Values perspective.
2. How Indonesia has adjusted to the period of a G-Zero World (i.e., instability and public spending cuts) and the Beijing Consensus; how developed is the country in regard to the concepts of competitive advantage of nations, global city, and global gender gap; and whether Indonesia has managed or has been altered because of the new geopolitics of energy or other scarce natural resources (i.e., food, water, rare earth elements, etc).
3. How do identity politics and diasporic groups ofIndonesia affect the country’s economic development; whetherthe economic relations between the state and corporations (i.e., state capitalism, social capitalism, market capitalism, Islamic economics, etc) in the country have resulted in economic growth after the 2008 financial crisis; and whether Indonesia has solved or has been impeded by the puzzle of economic development.