ANU E-Press Publications on the Asia & the Pacific
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Ashley Carl presents to the University of Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
On Friday 17 April 2009, Ashley Carl gave a presentation on the GSIA to Indonesian students at the Gadjah Mada University.
Ashley is completing a Master in Arts (International Relations) specialising in Peace and Conflicts. He is currently working with the International Organisation for Migration in Indonesia, managing several emergency and reconstruction projects in central Java.
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New GSIA graduates
11 December 2008
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Latest Publication from
Greg Fry, Director of Studies
Greg Fry's latest publication, Intervention and state-building
in the Pacific: The legitimacy of 'cooperative intervention' - co-edited
with Tracisius Tara Kabutaulaka - is hot of the presses from the
University of Manchester and Palgrave Macmillan.
It is the latest release in the prestigious series
on New
Approaches to Conflict Analysis, edited by Peter Lawler, Senior
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Manchester.
Intervention
and state-building in the Pacific
on Amazon.com
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Bilveer Singh, Papua: Geopolitics
and the Quest for Nationhood
 MAIR
alumni
and associate professor in the Department of Political
Science at the National University of Singapore, Bilveer Singh,
has just released a new book on Papua: Papua: Geopolitics
and the Quest for Nationhood (New Brunswick and London:
Transaction Publishers, 2008).
Papua:
Geopolitics and the Quest for Nationhood
on Amazon.com
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2020 Summit
Two members of the IR Department, Kathy Morton and
Danielle Chubb, participated in the 2020 Summit. For information
on the ANU contribution to this event more generally, please see
the OnCampus article "Summiteers
reflect on ideas powerhouse."
Also at the 2020 Summit was recent GSIA Graduate,
Sara Goldsworthy, who not only participated in a focus group on
"Australia's future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing
region and world," but also got to meet Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd and actor Hugh Jackman. [more]
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Lorraine Elliott
Lorraine Elliott returned from a productive year of
leave, during which she had a Visiting Professorship at the Institute
for Environmental Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam
(funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in
May and then a Visiting Fellowship at the Research Institute for
Law, Politics and Justice at the University of Keele in the UK for
the following 5 months. During this time she convened and participated
in various conferences and workshops, and had many publications.
Recent publications include ‘Transnational environmental crime
in the Asia Pacific: an un(der)-securitised security problem?’,
The Pacific Review 20(4) 2007: 499-522; ‘US policy
interests and the challenges of environmental security in Asia’
in Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Willis (eds) Strategic Asia
2007-08: Domestic politics, internal change and grand strategy
(Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2007) and ‘Globalization
and political violence: the environmental connection’ in Richard
Devetak and Christopher Hughes (eds) The globalization of political
violence: globalization’s shadow (London: Routledge,
2008). Lorraine will be teaching Global Governance again in Semester
2.
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Miwa Hirono
Miwa Hirono, a Visiting Fellow and PhD graduate in
IR, and teaching staff here in the GSIA, has received a book contract
from Palgrave
MacMillan in the US to publish her PhD thesis, titled Civilizing
Mission: International Religious Agencies in China. She has
also been offered a five year RCUK Research Fellowship leading to
a permanent lectureship at the University of Nottingham. Sadly,
this means Miwa will be leaving us after this year, but we wish
her all the best.
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Chris Reus-Smit Speaks to College
Audience
Professor Chris Reus-Smit delivered an orientation
address to 100 new students at Burton
and Garran College on Saturday evening on 'Individual Rights
and the Transformation of
World Politics'.
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Orientation Day, Semester
1, 2008
Orientation Day for 2008 was held on Wednesday, 20
February 2008. More than 40 new graduate students were in attendance,
and also some of the 15 honours students and 16 cross-campus students
who will be studying with the GSIA this semester. Many of the faculty
spoke - including Chris Reus-Smit, who gave the introduction, Heather
Rae, who chaired the proceedings, and Lorraine Elliot, who gave
a superb overview of her Global Governance course to be taught in
second semester.
After lunch, a number of former and continuing students
gave tours to the newcomers - Michele Acuto, who will be tutoring
this year, and studying for his Master of Diplomacy; Christine Nam;
and others - you know who you are and our thanks go out to all of
you.
It's going to be an exciting year. The students this
year represent thirty different countries, from every inhabited
continent on the planet, and include staff from 14 different foreign
ministries and five embassies, as well as all the branches of the
Australian armed services, a large number of departments of the
Australian public service (everything from agriculture to customs
to transportation, as well as all the usual suspects), and... Well,
you get the picture. It's an exceptional bunch of students, with
a vast range and depth of experience. Make the most of it.
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GSIA Intranet Web Pages Updated
With 2008 well underway and the start of Semester
1 fast approaching, we have begun updating many of the pages on
the GSIA Intranet, such as the careers page ("The
Next Step") and the page devoted to conferences and calls
for papers. On the later, we have just posted information on
a US$10,000 essay contest in the area of nonproliferation.
A new addition to the GSIA Intranet is the Course
Materials webpage, from which staff and students can access
course guides and readings for all our current courses. This new
page is the main jumping off point for the new "eBrick"
system, by which all required readings will be made available electronically,
rather than in the form of bound photocopies ("bricks").
As the Semester gets underway, hopefully we will have
major updates to the student profiles available via the Intranet.
You can check out profiles on many of our 2007 students here,
and for our new 2008 here.
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Chris Reus-Smit receives
inaugural teaching award from the College
The inaugural College
of Asia and the Pacific Teaching Awards were announced late
in January, and our own Chris Reus-Smit won the Award for Teaching
Excellence. While Chris no doubt appreciates the cash prize that
comes with the award, we are happy to see yet another acknowledgement
of the excellence in teaching which is one of the strengths of the
GSIA.
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Chris Reus-Smit awarded the
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
Professor Chris Reus-Smit, Head of the Department
of International Relations and lecturer for GSIA, has been awarded
a Fernand
Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute
in Florence for the period from October 2008 through May 2009.
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End of Year Dinner
The GSIA End of Year Dinner was held at Vivaldi's
on Friday evening, 26 October, hosted by the GSIA Student Representations.
Greg Fry, Heather Rae and Chris Reus-Smit attended, representing
the department, along with all the administrative staff, Farnaz,
Kaz, and Nick. Many of the other teaching were regrettably committed
to the China Workshop which had been scheduled for the same time
and were unable to attend. The tutors showed up in force, with Mary
O'Kane, Miwa Hirono, Yang Jiang and Tomohiko Satake all showing
up to help celebrate with the students. Visiting lecturer Andrew
Phillips was there, as well. Drinks and mingling were followed by
a fine multicultural meal, with appetizers, Moroccan Chicken, a
vegetarian main course, and baklava and Turkish Delight for dessert.
After the main course, our guest speaker Graham Dobell
gave an entertaining talk on mistranslations and cross-cultural
confusion in international political relations. He was followed
by David Ndumo, representing the graduating students, who gave a
wonderful and warmly received speech on his time at GSIA and on
the challenges and responsibilities awaiting the graduates. After
David, Chris Reus-Smit spoke on his own avoidance of the real world
and his gratitude to our students for taking it on and allowing
him to live vicariously through them. More seriously, he spoke of
the contribution which the GSIA students make to the research activities
of RSPAS, helping it maintain its status as a world-class institute
and the largest school of Asian and Pacific Studies in the English-speaking
world.
After Chris's remarks came the heart of the evening,
with Greg Fry presenting all of the graduating students with a small
gift on behalf of the department. Each student was applauded as
they made their way up to the podium, and while it was a pleasure
to share in and celebrate their accomplishment, it was also sad
to realize how many friends will be leaving us shortly.
The evening's events were entertainingly mc'ed by
Kate Boswood and Trang Nguyen on behalf of the Student Reps. At
the conclusion of the events, Farnaz, Nick and Kaz were presented
with gifts by the students.
After dessert was served, staff and students got down
to some serious mingling and were still going strong at 10pm.
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The GSIA's Latest "Publications":
Spring is here, and the GSIA community has been blessed with two
new additions with the birth of Angus Jack Kennedy to Nicky George
and Gavin Kennedy, and of Zara to Drew Layton and his wife. The
whole GSIA community sends its congratulations and best wishes to
both families.
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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific
Program (RMAP)
"The Resource Management in Asia-Pacific (RMAP)
Program is an inter-disciplinary program of research on the historical,
social and institutional context of natural resource management
in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region..." [ more
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Information on upcoming RMAP events and abstracts
and audio of past events can be found here...
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Visiting Fellow from the China
Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
Ms Chen Qingyi, assistant research fellow with the
Institute of World Economic Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary
International Relations (CICIR) in Beijing, will be visiting the
Department of International Relations for a year as part of the
exchange agreement between ANU and CICIR. Ms Chen is currently carrying
out research on the emergence of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India and China) and the likely impacts that these emerging economies
may have on international economic relations. She will be arriving
on 2 October and will be based with Nathan Johnson in room 4139.
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Professor Ravenhill at the
WTO and Elsewhere
John Ravenhill was a member of the Australian Services
Roundtable delegation that was part of the Global Services Coalition's
mission to the WTO in Geneva in September. On 3 October he spoke
at a formal dinner at Bruce Hall on APEC; on 5 October he gave a
presentation at a workshop on International Political Economy in
Australia at Adelaide University.
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New Information Pages
We are establishing new information pages - one on
"the next step" - funding and other opportunities to pursue
after your GSIA degree (including scholarships, jobs and internships)
- and another on conferences and calls for papers to supplement
the material posted to the GSIA Calendar:
GSIA students may want to review these pages periodically for opportunities
to further their career or studies.
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"Australians: What are
we? How do we see ourselves? How do others see us?"
Commonwealth Lecture by the Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser
On 20 April 2007, former prime minister Malcolm Fraser
spoke to a packed house at the Coombs Lecture Theatre on "Australians:
What are we? How do we see ourselves? How do others see us?"
Afterwards, he spoke with GSIA students in a special, informal session.
This was followed by a reception. [photos].
For more information, including an audio file of the
lecture, see [here].
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China-Taiwan Relations
Justin Liang (MIA, Class of 2005) has co-authored
a chapter on the People's Liberation Army in a new publication from
from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace entitled Assessing
the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security.
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Indonesian
Ambassador Speaks to GSIA
As the first GSIA Special Lecture for this semester,
the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, H.E. Teuku Mohammad Hamzah
Thayeb, spoke on "Indonesia-Australia Relations: Challenges
and Opportunities" on Monday, 6 August, to members of the GSIA
community. The Ambassador's remarks were followed by a brief Q&A
session, and then a reception.
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Bilveer Singh, Politics and Governance
in Singapore
McGraw-Hill publishing house has recently released Bilveer Singh's
latest book on Politics
and Governance in Singapore. Associate Professor Singh, a graduate
of the MA(International Relations) from ANU, teaches politics at
the National University
of Singapore. His other books include Succession Politics
in Indonesia (Macmillan, 2000) and Defence
Relations between Australia and Indonesia in the post-Cold War Era
(Greenwood Press, 2002)
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GSIA Piano Trio Formed
The GSIA Piano Trio has been formed by two students, Trang Nguyen
(violin) and Natalie Sambhi (cello), and they are looking for an
advanced-level pianist to round out the group. They hope to be performing
throughout the semester for staff, students and friends. Their repertoire
will include Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Haydn trios, amongst
others. Contact the GSIA office
for info.
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The Hedley Bull Centre
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The GSIA will be relocating
next year to the new Hedley Bull Centre, currently under construction
at the corner Liversidge Street and Garran Road, and due for
completion in May 2008. The new building will house the Asia-Pacific
College of Diplomacy, the Department of International Relations,
the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and the Department
of Political and Social Change. It is named in honour of Australia's
most celebrated international relations scholar: Professor Hedley
Bull was joint Head of the Department of International Relations
from 1966 to 1976, and it was during this period that he wrote
his most famous work, The
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Ed Aspinall, "The Construction
of Grievance"
The
Journal of Conflict Resolution will publish an article
by GSIA faculty member Ed Aspinall, "The Construction of Grievance:
Natural Resources and Identity in a Separatist Conflict" in
the December issue.
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Orientation Day - 11 July 2007
The Semester 2 Orientation Day for new students was held on Wednesday
11 July in the afternoon. A fine time was had by all. The head of
the Department of International Relations, Professor Chris Reus-Smit,
opened the event, stressing in his introduction the invaluable contribution
made by our students, with their diverse backgrounds and experience,
to the success of the department. Our Director of Studies, Greg
Fry, provided his own welcome, and an introduction to the GSIA program.
Dr Jacinta O'Hagan discussed the still relatively new Peace and
Conflict Studies specialisation, while Dr Heather Rae talked about
tutoring and other resources for students. An overview of GSIA administration
and key information sources for students was provided by Nick Chapman,
Assistant Program Administrator.
Thirty new students joined GSIA this semester, and most of them
were able to attend the Orientation. Our new students come from
11 different countries, including Australia, the United States,
Japan, Indonesia and Thailand.
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Inaugural Oslo Peace Scholarship
Recipient
The recipient of the inaugural Oslo Peace Scholarship is Nino Kemoklidze:
I graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Nationalism Studies (with
Distinction) in 2006 from the University of Edinburgh, where I
studied on an OSI / FCO-Chevening / University of Edinburgh Scholarship.
My dissertation topic was "Nationalism and War: The Case
of Georgia in Early 1990s." Witnessing the fall of the Soviet
Union and living through the turbulent period of Georgia’s
civil wars accentuated my wish to study the causes of violent
ethnic/national conflicts and the means of resolving them. I believe
that doing a degree in International Affairs specializing in Peace
and Conflict Studies will be a lifetime experience and a chance
to deepen my knowledge and understanding of this field. My previous
education in my home country Georgia includes an Academic Degree
(Honours) in Economical Law and a BA (Honours) in the History
of Diplomacy and International Relations. Before joining the Refugee
Programme of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Budapest in September
2006 as part of the OSI Human Rights and Governance Grants Programme
Internship Initiative, I worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Georgia as an Attaché in the Department for the Americas
and did an internship for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Parliament of Georgia.
Nino will be studying at PRIO in Oslo from August,
and will be joining the GSIA in Canberra in February 2008.
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