Part of the Asian security seminar series, a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, this seminar is being offered with the support of the MacArthur Foundation and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (ARC CEPS).

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

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Part of the Asian security seminar series, a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, this seminar is being offered with the support of the MacArthur Foundation and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (ARC CEPS).

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

The Asian Security seminar series is a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Professor Pempel is renowned for his extensive work in the field of International Political Economy. His research focuses on comparative politics, Japanese political economy, and Asian regionalism. His most recent books include Crisis as Catalyst: Asia’s Dynamic Political Economy(Cornell University Press, 2008), Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell University Press, 2005), and Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2004).

The Asian Security seminar series is a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Michael J. Hiscox is Professor in the Department of Government. He specializes in international political economy, and most of his research and teaching is focused on the political economy of trade, investment, and immigration. Hiscox received his B. Econ. (Hon.) from the University of Sydney in 1989, and received his PhD. (Government) from Harvard in 1997. He was Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSD from 1997 to 2001. His first book, International Trade and Political Conflict, was published by Princeton University Press in 2001 and won the William H. Riker Prize in 2002. Hiscox has published articles in leading scholarly journals on international trade, investment, immigration, industrialization, and globalisation. His second book, High Stakes: The Political Economy of US Trade Sanctions, will be published next year. His recent papers have addressed questions concerning factor mobility and structural adjustment within economies, trade adjustment assistance policies, the measurement of barriers to trade, determinants of foreign investment flows, the size of nations, and public attitudes toward international trade and immigration.

Iris Wielders (BA/MA International Relations, University of Amsterdam; MA International Humanitarian Assistance, University of Groningen) is a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. Her PhD project investigates accountability dilemmas in international cooperative state building interventions. She has worked in conflict prevention and peace building in Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Pacific region more broadly.

Dr Malcolm Cook is Program Director, East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. In this seminar, he proposes a new agenda for multilateral cooperation between Australia and Japan.

Dr Cook completed a PhD in International Relations at the Australian National University. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the International University of Japan and an honours degree from McGill University in Canada, his country of birth.

Before moving to Australia in 2000, Dr Cook lived and worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Lowy Institute in November 2003, he ran his own consulting practice on East Asian political and economic policy reform and risk analysis. He is the author of Banking reform in Southeast Asia, (Routledge, 2008), in addition to numerous op-ed pieces, academic journal articles and policy reports.

The Asian Security seminar series is a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Dr Kim Woo-sang was appointed the Korean Ambassador to Australia in May 2008.

Previous positions have included being director of the Institute of East & West Studies at Yonsei University and being a member of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. He has also served as a key advisor to President Lee Myung-Bak on foreign policy and security issues.

Dr Kim Woo-sang received his doctorate in Political Science in 1988 from the University of Rochester, New York. For 20 years he has researched and taught security, foreign policy, and international politics at a number of institutions and universities including the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, and Yonsei University in Seoul.

This seminar is part of the 'Asian Security' seminar series, a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

In this seminar, Dr Alan Gropman assesses the impact—both at home and abroad—that US President Barack Obama has made during his first 100 days in office. The seminar is part of the 'Asian Security' seminar series, a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Dr Alan Gropman has been a faculty member of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University since 1991 and is currently its Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy. Previously he was Chairman of its Department of Grand Strategy and Mobilization.

He served 27 years in the United States Air Force, including two tours in Vietnam where he accumulated more than 670 combat missions. He retired as a Colonel. He also served as a war planner in Europe and at the Pentagon.

He has a PhD in History from Tufts University, earned a diploma from the National War College, and is a distinguished graduate of the Air War College.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Dr Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He completed his MSc and PhD in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests cover security studies and international relations theory, maritime security, international institutions in the Asia-Pacific, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia.

Valerie M. 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.

Joint seminar with Department of Political and Social Change

This seminar is part of the Asian Security Seminar Series. It is being co-hosted by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Department of International Relations, and the Crawford School of Economics and Government (all of The Australian National University). The seminar is made possible by the Embassy of the United States of America in Canberra.

Joint seminar with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Tony Payne is Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. He was the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) from 1996 to 1999 and Co-Director from 2002 to 2004. He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Administration of City University Hong Kong in May 2005 and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University in January-April 2006. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of International Relations, RSPAS, The Australian National University. His principal research interests are the politics of the Caribbean, international political economy and the politics of development.

Philip Towle is Reader in International Relations at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. He joined in 1980 following a period as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, previously having worked for Reuters News Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was Deputy Director (1982-93) and then Director of the Centre of International Studies (1993-1998). He currently runs the course on International Security for the MPhil in International Relations. His research interests are in East Asian security and the causes and consequences of warfare.