Staff profile

Dr Michael O'Keefe

Senior Lecturer, Bachelor of International Relations Convenor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

Social Sciences Building - Level 3, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-La Trobe), PhD (La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

Member of Editorial Committee, Global Change, Peace and Security (formerly Pacifica Review), Carfax Publishing Co./Taylor and Francis P/L, Oxford.

Area of study

International Relations
Politics

Brief Profile

Dr Michael O’Keefe lectures in International Relations. He is particularly interested in Australian Foreign Policy (especially toward the South Pacific) and US politics. His recent publications include ‘Australia and the Fragile States of the South Pacific’, in Trading On Alliance Security 2001-2005 and ‘Anti-Americanism and US Bases’ in Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, Themes.

 

Michael’s research interests include the preceding issues and new forms of insecurity in relation to state fragility and epidemic diseases (HIV/AIDS). He manages two websites for practitioners in the HIV policy field: (www.hivpolicy.org and www.hivpolicytoolkit.org). 

 

Michael’s administrative responsibilities include being Convenor of the Bachelor of International Relations and Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Social Sciences. He has been actively involved in the Design for Learning process with an emphasis on curriculum renewal. Michael also has regular spots on the ABC's 730 Report, ABC Insiders, ABC 774, Radio National, 3CR, ABC.net, New Matilda, etc. Michael’s writing has also appeared in The Age, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, and Fiji Times.

Teaching Units

  • POL2/3AAW - Australian Foreign Policy.
  • POL3PCW Professional Competence: Transition to the Workplace.
  • POL2/3IAP - American Politics.
  • POL 5 HSD: Human Security and Development.

Also teaches into programs at the University of Fiji and Hiroshima University.

Recent Publications

  • O'Keefe, M (2012), 'AIDS, Security and Evidence: Questioning Assumptions about AIDS in Militaries, National and International Security and Public Policy Priorities', Contemporary Politics. June.
  • O'Keefe, M (2011), 'Australian Sanctions Against Fiji: Reappraising the Calculus of Success', Refereed Paper for the Australian Political Studies Conference, Canberra, September.
  • O'Keefe, M (2011), ‘Contextualising the AIDS Epidemic in the South Pacific: Orthodoxies, Estimates and Evidence’, Australian Journal of International Affairs.
  • O'Keefe, M (2010), 'The International Response to the 2006 Fiji Coup: The Efficacy of Sanctions-'lite'. A refereed paper for the Fourth Oceanic International Studies Conference, Auckland July.
  • O’Keefe, M (2010), 'HIV/AIDS and Security in PNG: National and Human Security', in Vicki Luker and Sinclair Dinnen (eds), Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea, ANU E Press, Canberra.
  • O’Keefe, M (2010), 'On The Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today by Michel Agier’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 22/1: February.
  • O’Keefe, M (2009), ‘Human Security and HIV’, Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference, 2009, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Brisbane, September.
  • O’Keefe, M (2009), ‘HIV/AIDS and Security in PNG: Whose Insecurity?’, 9th International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP), Bali, Indonesia, August.
  • O’Keefe, M  (2009), hivpolicytoolkit.org, 9th International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP), Bali, Indonesia, August (with Molly Anggo).
  • O’Keefe, M (2008), ‘State Fragility and AIDS in the South Pacific’, Research Report No. 9, AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative, Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands, April. http://asci.researchhub.ssrc.org/state-fragility-and-aids-in-the-south-pacific/attachment
  • O'Keefe, M (2008), ‘Charting the Course of the AIDS Epidemic in the Pacific’, Oceanic International Studies Conference, Brisbane, July.
  • O’Keefe, M (2007), 'Australia and the Fragile States of the South Pacific', in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (eds), Trading On Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp 131-149.
  • O’Keefe, M (2007), 'US Military Bases and Anti-Americanism'', in Brendon O’Connor and Martin Griffiths (eds), Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes, Volume 4: In the 21st Century, Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford, pp 115-126.
  • O'Keefe, M (2005), 'Australian Intervention in its Neighbourhood: Sheriff and Humanitarian', and 'Introduction', in Righteous Violence: Ethics, Politics and Military intervention from Bosnia to Iraq.