Global Utilities

Politics and International Relations Program

Research

Politics and International Relations is a dynamic centre for research with some of Australia’s leading scholars conducting work within the program. Among the important publications produced by program staff are the following monographs:

Robert Manne (ed.) (2008) Dear Mr Rudd, Black Inc.

Nick Bisley (2007) Rethinking Globalization, Palgrave-Macmillan.

Judith Brett (2007) Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard, Black Inc.

James Leibold (2007) Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How the Qing Frontier and its Indigenes Became Chinese, Palgrave Macmillan.

Sanjay Seth )2007) Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India, Duke University Press.

Michael Connors (2007) Democracy and National Identity in Thailand, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Michális S. Michael, Larry Marshall, Michael Seigel and Joseph A. Camilleri (eds) (2007) Asia-Pacific Geopolitics: Hegemony versus Human Security, Edward Elgar.

Dennis Altman (2006) 51st State? Scribe.

Tom Weber (2006) Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians, Roli.

Dennis Altman (2006) Gore Vidal’s America Polity.

Gwenda Tavan (2005) The Long, Slow Death of White Australia, Scribe.

Robert Horvath (2005) The Legacy of Soviet Dissent: Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia, Routledge.

Angus MacIntyre (2005) The Indonesian Presidency: From Personal toward Constitutional Rule, Rowman & Littlefield.

For further details please see the staff directory.

The areas of research covered by members of the Politics and International Relations program include:

  • Australian politics
  • Peace and conflict studies
  • Globalization and governance
  • International political economy
  • International Relations theory
  • Political theory
  • Post-colonialism
  • South Asia
  • Thai politics
  • Democracy and democratization
  • Migration and Immigration policy
  • AIDS and security
  • European Union and European integration
  • International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
  • Regionalism
  • Indonesian politics
  • United Nations and reform
  • Religion and international relations
  • American politics
  • Australian foreign policy
  • Ethics of intervention
  • Politics of the Middle East

In addition to the ongoing research projects, International Relations in the Politics Program hosts an important new Centre for Dialogue. This is a major new centre with broad support from government, business and several major international partners. The Centre has a working papers series and a significant conference and event program. You can visit the extensive website of The Centre for Dialogue for more detailed information. The program is also host to a major international journal, Global Change, Peace & Security. The journal has been established for over fifteen years and publishes Australian and international research across a broad range of topics. For more details about issues, subscription or submission of articles visit the journal’s website.

 

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Last Updated: 1 August, 2008