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Graduate Research in Political Science & International Relations - Staff

 

Graduate Research in Political Science & International Relations brings together staff and research scholars from departments and programs across the University.

Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts

Mr David Adams (Australian politics; public administration)
Dr Jim George (international relations; political theory)
Dr Gwen Gray (health policy; public policy; theories of welfare; federalism; women and public policy)
Dr John Hart (American and British politics)
Dr Rick Kuhn (Australian political economy; Marxism; German and Austrian political economy)
Dr Katrina Lee Koo (critical security studies, identity and conflict, gender and international politics)
Dr Michael McKinley (international relations; strategic studies; Australian foreign policy; regional security)
Dr John Minns (international political economy, newly industrializing countries, labour movement)
Dr William Sutherland (Pacific Islands Politics; Regional co-operation in the Pacific)
Professor John Warhurst (Australian political institutions; political parties and interest groups; elections and voting; public policy)
Dr Ben Wellings  (nationalism, history and politics in Europe, Britain and Australia)
Dr David West (contemporary political theory; politics of sexuality; Habermas and critical theory; theories of new social movements)

Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia), Faculty of Arts

Dr Matthew Gray  (political economy; international realtions in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict)
Dr M Mehdi Ilhan (Modern Turkish language; Ottoman history and language; history of Islam)
Dr Kirill Nourzhanov (politics; international relations; conflict resolution in contemporary Central Asia)
Professor Amin Saikal (Middle East, Central Asia, international relations)
Dr Seyed Mohammad Torabi (Persian language; history of Persian literature)

International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Dr Lorraine Elliott (Global governance, global environmental politics, non-traditional security including environmental and human security, Asia Pacific regionalism, environmental governance in Southeast Asia, cosmopolitan international theory)
Mr Greg Fry (International politics of the South Pacific region, nuclear arms control, Australia's foreign policy, and international relations theory)
Emeritus Professor Stuart Harris (International relations of China and countries of Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and Australia's foreign policy) [Visiting Fellow]
Dr Paul Keal (Indigenous rights in world politics, the theory and practice of sovereignty and self-determination in the Asia-Pacific region, ethical and cultural factors in the political re-building of war torn states, and concepts of security)
Dr Kathy Morton (The role of civil society in international relations, international environmental politics, international development and the influence of international norms on domestic political and socio-economic change)
Dr Jacinta O'Hagan (Issues of culture and identity in international relations, conceptions of the West in world politics, and conceptions of Humanitarianism)
Dr Heather Rae (Theories of international relations, the historical sociology of the state, nationalism, the construction of state boundaries and the smuggling and trafficking of human beings)
Professor John Ravenhill (The politics of international economic relations, especially the fields of trade and production, and Australian foreign policy)
Professor Chris Reus-Smit (International relations theory, international history, international law, international ethics, institutional theory, and the application of social and political theory to the study of global politics)
Professor William Tow (Alliance politics, US security policy in the Asia-Pacific, security politics in the Asia-Pacific and Australian security policies)
Dr Peter Van Ness (Chinese foreign policy and the international relations of East Asia) [Visiting Fellow]

Political & Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Professor Harold Crouch (political development in Southeast Asia; Indonesian and Malaysian politics)
Dr Sinclair Dinnen (Papua New Guinea; Pacific Islands; politics of law and order; comparative criminology)
Dr Greg Fealy (Islamic movements and ideology; Indonesian politics)
Dr Heike Hermanns (civil society; local politics; political perceptions in Asian countries; Korean politics)
Professor Ben Kerkvliet (agrarian politics; state-society relations; politics in Southeast Asia)
Dr Luigi Tomba (Chinese contemporary politics and society, labour market and labour reform) (shared position with Contemporary China Centre)

Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy

Dr Pauline Kerr (traditional & human security in the Asia-Pacific; Australian security & policy towards the region; international relations theory)
Professor William Maley

Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Dr Robert Ayson (strategic theory, nuclear proliferation and disarmament, regional stability, New Zealand defence and foreign policy)
Professor Des Ball (strategic studies; regional security)
Professor Paul Dibb (Australian defence policy; regional strategic trends)
Professor David Horner (military history; strategic and operational concepts)
Dr Ron Huisken (ballistic missile defence; alliance issues & security mechanisms in East Asia)

Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences

Professor Barry Hindess (social and political theory; contemporary politics)
Professor Ian McAllister (elections, public opinion, UK politics and methodology)
Professor Rod Rhodes (executive government; governance; policy networks)
Professor Marian Sawer (gender and politics; representative democracy)
Dr John Uhr (Australian government; political theory)
Professor John Wanna (Australian government and public administration)


Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences

Professor Geoffrey Brennan (public choice theory)
Professor John Dryzek (democracy; political theory; environmental politics)
Professor Robert Goodin (political and moral philosophy)


Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government

Dr Peter Drysdale (East Asian and Pacific political economy and international relations, Japanese political economy, the politics of economic growth and development)
Dr Yusaku Horiuchi (electoral systems and political behavior, political economy, public opinion, research methods, Japanese politics and political economy)
Dr Peter Larmour (South Pacific politics; customary land tenure; governance for development)
Professor Andrew MacIntyre (East Asian and Pacific political economy, Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics; political institutions and economic development)
Professor Richard Mulgan (classical political theory, public sector management, accountability)
Dr Ann Nevile (social policy; policy-making process)
Dr Benjamin Reilly (political institutions; democratization; ethnic conflict; electoral systems)
Professor Glenn Withers (public policy; public choice)

Staff from other areas

Dr John Ballard Graduate School (public policy; health politics; Melanesia) [Visiting Fellow]
Dr James Jupp Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, RSSS (immigration; multicultural affairs)
Dr. Christa Knellwolf National Europe Centre (European national identity (17th to 19th century); European exploration and colonisation (18th and 19th centuries), cultural history)
Dr Will Sanders Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Faculties (Indigenous affairs policy, including social security, housing, employment, local government and intergovernmental relations. Also Indigenous-specific elections and the role of Indigenous people and issues in general elections)
Dr Jeremy Shearmur Philosophy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts (philosophy/methodology of social science; political theory; history of political thought; classical liberalism; Hayek; Popper)