Senior Fellow, Department of International Relations. CCI Internal Governance Board Member. (College of Asia and the Pacific)

BA (Auckland)

MA (Hons) (Auckland)

PhD (ANU)

Professional Background

In September 2005, I returned to the Department of International Relations after a two year secondment to the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick where I was Reader in International Relations and Programme Director for the MA in International Relations. Since my return to the ANU, I have taught the Global Governance course in the IR Department's GSIA programme. My present research includes work on regional environmental governance in Southeast Asia, for which I have a book contract with MIT Press. In 2005 I completed a project funded by the United States Institute of Peace, working with my co-researcher Dr Graeme Cheeseman of the Australian Defence Force Academy, on cosmopolitan militaries and the use of military force and forces in support of cosmopolitan objectives. Under this project we ran two workshops in the UK and an international conference at the ANU and in 2004 published a co-edited book with Manchester University Press. In early 2006, I received a grant from the International Centre for Excellence in Asia Pacific Studies (ICEAPS) to run a workshop on transnational environmental crime and illegal resource activity in the Asia Pacific as part of my new research on the global dimensions of this topic.

Career Highlights

Exchange Fellowship, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Australian Academy of Social Sciences (2007); Visiting Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (2002); Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics (2001); Research grant, United States Institute of Peace (2002); Australasian Political Studies Association L F Crisp Medal for originality and intellectual contribution (1997); Vice-Chancellor's Endowment for Excellence for retention of outstanding staff; Member, Australian National Committee, Council for Security Cooperation Asia Pacific (CSCAP).

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Global politics of the environment; environmental governance in Southeast Asia; peace and security including non-traditional security; cosmopolitan political theory; cosmopolitan militaries; transnational harm, cosmopolitan ethics and the politics of consent; transnational environmental crime.

Notable Publications

'Cosmopolitan environmental harm conventions', Global Society, vol. 20, no. 3 (2006).

'Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response' in Peter Dauvergne (ed.) International handbook of environmental politics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005).

The Global Politics of the Environment, 2nd edition, Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan/New York University Press, 2004 (first edition also published as Kankyo no chikyu seijigaku trans. Ota Kazuo, Katano Atsuhiro, Takahashi Hajime, Nakano Osamu, Kiraki Takayuki (Kyoto: Horitsu bunka sha, 2001).

Forces for good: cosmopolitan militaries in the 21st century, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004 (co-edited with Graeme Cheeseman).

'Environmental protection and US-Asia relations: a policy of disconnect', The Pacific Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2004, pp. 291-314.

'Imaginative adaptations: a possible environmental role for the UN Security Council?', Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 24, no. 2, 2003, pp. 47-68.

'ASEAN and environmental cooperation: norms, interests and identity' The Pacific Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 2003.

'Reconstituting social order: the United Nations and social reconstruction in disrupted states', in W. Maley, C. Sampford and R. Thakur (eds), From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States, United Nations University Press, Tokyo and New York, 2002.

'The global politics of the environment: the hegemony of neo-liberalism', in S. Lawson (ed.), The New Agenda for International Relations: From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2001.