Bobyano Dolyamano Blessing Purba
Analyst, East Asia Desk
Boby Purba is Analyst with the East Asia Desk at World Order Lab. He is currently an Undergraduate Student in International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. He writes on issues concerning the Global South, institutional reform, democratic accountability, and East Asian geopolitical developments in contemporary international politics.
Boby's broader research interests include Indo-Pacific geopolitics, ASEAN and regionalism, international political economy, energy politics, resource nationalism, sustainable development, and the role of emerging technologies in international affairs. His work particularly explores how structural inequalities within international institutions shape the policy choices and strategic autonomy of developing and emerging states.
Boby has published analytical and opinion pieces in international and national outlets, including Modern Diplomacy, The Diplomatic Insight, Australian Outlook, and Kumparan. His recent work has addressed global governance and SDGs, ASEAN institutional reform, Taiwan and East Asian security, critical minerals, energy politics, and maritime governance in the Indo-Pacific.
He is also developing an emerging theoretical framework, Innovation Inertia Theory of Development (IITD), which examines structural and contextual barriers that may prevent developing countries from translating innovation capacity into sustained development. His wider academic objective is to contribute to research on development, international order, and the strategic agency of the Global South.
Language: Indonesian (Native), English (B1).
Education:
Bachelor's Degree, International Relations
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Kristen Indonesia (2024 - 2028)
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Research Interests
Boby Purba
Analyst,
East Asia Desk
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Regional Focus
Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies
ASEAN
Energy and Resource Politics
Geopolitics of East Asia
Geopolitics of Indo-Pacific
Global Governance
International Political Economy
International Relations Theory
Indonesia
Australia
Southeast Asia
East Asia
Global South
Pacific Island
Indo-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Selected Articles & Publications
Beyond Burden Sharing: A Normative Case for Indo-Pacific Maritime Solidarity
Australian Outlook | June 16, 2026Beyond Reunification: North Korea’s Constitutional Shift & Limits of Global Governance
The Diplomatic Insight | June 4, 2026Why Keeping Silence on Taiwan Is No Longer Safe
Modern Diplomacy | May 25, 2026Asia Is Paying the Bill for America’s War
The Diplomatic Insight | March 24, 2026Rethinking ASEAN Values: Between Partial Reform and Radical Break
Modern DIplomacy | March 15, 2026Bandwagon Effect: Systemic Barriers to Global Governance and SDGs 16
Modern Diplomacy | February 27, 2026
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