Humanities and Social Sciences

Politics and International Relations Program

Postgraduate Studies - Research Supervision

You will also be working with a team of researchers who are held in high esteem by their peers and who have made significant and pioneering contributions in their respective fields. The Program has a high profile in public intellectual life, with several of its professors often leading debates on local, national and international issues. The Politics and Industrial Relations Program is research active, with fifteen books, as well as numerous chapters and journal articles, being published in the last five years. Current and recently completed research projects include:

• Global Governance and UN reform
• Ordinary People’s Politics
• The Howard Government
• History of the Liberal Party
• Pedagogy and Colonialism in India
• Anti-Americanism in the Middle East
• Leadership in Indonesia
• AIDS and Security
• Thailand: Culture, Development and Security
• European Integration
• Immigration Policy
• Civilian peace teams in the international arena
• Gandhi’s influence
• Gore Vidal and American Political Debate
• Globalization and world politics
• Security institutions in Asia
• Changing character of great power diplomacy
  

Research Areas for Supervision

Members of the Program have individual web pages where you can learn more about their research interests and areas of supervision. If you would like to make contact with staff to discuss possible supervision, please feel free to make direct contact on the links below. You are also welcome to contact the Postgraduate Coordinator directly who will make supervision enquiries on your behalf (see below). At La Trobe we match research proposal and supervisor. If we do not feel adequate supervision is available in your chosen area we will be happy to advise of alternative supervision at other institutions. Below you will find some details of relevant research and supervision areas available in the Program. The list is not exhaustive, however.

• Professor Dennis Altman: Sexual Politics; AIDS; American Studies
• Associate Professor Nick Bisley: International relations of the Asia-Pacific, globalization, great power diplomacy, regionalism and international security
• Professor Judy Brett: Australian Politics; Liberal Party; Political Culture
• Professor Joseph Camilleri: International Relations; Asia Pacific; United Nations
• Professor Robert Manne: Australian Politics; Intellectual History; Eastern Europe
• Dr John Chiddick: British Foreign Policy during the Cold War
• Dr Michael Connors: Contemporary Thai Politics, Critical Studies on Democratization; the Politics of Development in Southeast Asia
• Dr Anthony Jarvis: International Relations Theory; Globalization; Economic Regions
• Dr Michális Michael: Greece-Turkey-Cyprus, International Conflict Resolution, Prevention and Analysis
• Dr Angus McIntyre: Indonesian Politics and Society; Political Psychology; Leadership Studies; Political Biography
• Dr Michael O'Keefe: Various Aspects of Australia's Defence and Foreign Policies; Humanitarian Intervention: International Ethics; Security; Global Governance
• Dr Gwenda Tavan: History and Politics of Race, Immigration and Nationalism, and Australia-Asia relations
• Dr Tom Weber: Peace Studies; Gandhi

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Interdisciplinary Supervision

The Program is also happy to arrange co-supervision for students whose research interests may stretch across the various Programs in the School of Social Sciences. To see the range of research interests within the School of Social Sciences please Staff Directory in study areas listed: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/socsci/staff.html

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