Visitors

David Armstrong, PhD
July-September 2009

Dr Armstrong is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter in the UK. His research interests include the historical development and politics of international society and law, and human rights in international relations. He will teach a special course in the Graduate Studies in International Affairs program on the Politics of International Law.

http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/armstrong/index.php
E: j.d.armstrong@exeter.ac.uk

Cynthia Banham, BA/LLB (Macquarie), GradCertJourn (UTS), MIA (ANU)
February 2008-February 2010

Cynthia is Visiting Fellow/Journalist in Residence in the Department of International Relations. She has a Bachelor of Arts/Law from Macquarie University, a Graduate Certificate in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Masters of International Affairs from the Australian National University. She is also the Diplomatic Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, where she has worked since 2000. Before working in journalism, Cynthia practised as a solicitor.

T: +61 2 6125 0906
E: cynthia.banham@anu.edu.au

Anthony Burke, BA(Hons), MA (UTS), PhD (ANU)
January-July 2009

Dr Burke is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has published widely at the intersection of security studies, war and peace, international relations theory, and political philosophy. His books include Fear of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety (Cambridge, 2008), Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against the Other (Routledge, 2007), and as co-editor, Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester, 2007) and Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge, 2008).

While visiting the Department he will be working on a book provisionally entitled Global Security and Postmodern Conflict, which explores the changing nature of war and conflict after the end of the Cold War, the challenge it poses to dominant strategic and security paradigms, and the need to ally a critical analysis of the utility of force to holistic and sustainable security frameworks. It will include case studies on Iraq, the 'war on terror' and Afghanistan, the Israeli-Arab conflict, humanitarian uses of force, and asymmetric nuclear and counter-proliferation policies.

http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/staff/burke.html
T: +61 2 6125 0902
E: a.burke@adfa.edu.au

Ralf Emmers, BA (VUB-Vesalius College), MSc, PhD (LSE)
April-May 2009

Dr Emmers is the Head of Graduate Studies in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He will be visiting the Department as an ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) Visiting Fellow. His research interests include security studies and IR theory, international institutions in the Asia-Pacific, maritime security, and the security and international politics in Southeast Asia.

http://www.rsis.edu.sg/about_rsis/staff_profiles/Ralf_Emmers.html
E: isremmers@ntu.edu.sg

Tony Heron, BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield)
16 September-8 October 2009

Dr Heron is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests relate to the theory and practice of international and comparative political economy, especially in relation to the politics of international trade and development. He has a particular interest in the global textiles and clothing industry and in the political economy of small states.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/politics/staff/tonyheron.html
T: +61 2 6125 0902
E: T.Heron@sheffield.ac.uk

Valerie Hudson, BA (Brigham Young), MA, PhD (Ohio State)
January-March 2009

Dr Hudson is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. She received her doctorate at Ohio State University, and taught previously at Northwestern and Rutgers Universities. Her research interests include foreign policy analysis, national security, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson's articles have appeared in International Security, Journal of Peace Research, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Psychology, and other journals. Her co-authored book Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population (with Andrea Den Boer, MIT Press, 2004) won the AAP Award for Best Book in Political Science, and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Best Book in Social Demography. She is co-PI on the WomanStats Project and the New Kind of Social Science Project, the latter of which has received NSF funding.

http://geocities.com/vmrhudson/index.html
T: +61 2 6125 0919
E: Valerie_hudson@byu.edu

T.J. Pempel, BS, MA, PhD (Columbia)
July-August 2009

T.J. Pempel is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He will be visiting the Department as an ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) Visiting Fellow. His research interests include comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan and Asian regionalism.

http://polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Pempel,T/
E: pempel@berkeley.edu

Bilveer Singh, PhD (ANU)
July 2009

Dr Singh is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He will be visiting the Department as an ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) Visiting Fellow. His research interests include Papuan separatism and the threat of Indonesian Balkanisation, understanding the dynamics of Singapore's politics, and the sources of Islamist radicalism and violence in Southeast Asia.

http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polbilve/
E: polbilve@nus.edu.sg