Greg Fry, BCom (Econ) (UNSW), MA (PolSci) (ANU)
Hedley Bull Fellow and Director of Graduate Studies in International Affairs; Department of International Relations

Tel: +61 2 6125 2179
Fax: +61 2 6125 8010
Email: greg.fry@anu.edu.au
Location: Room 3.54, Hedley Bull Centre

Biographical Statement

Greg Fry has been researching the international politics of the Southwest Pacific region since he commenced his MA thesis on South Pacific regional identity at ANU in 1975. For the past twenty years he has also been Director of Studies of the Graduate Studies in International Affairs Program where he has taught International Relations Theory, and World Politics, alongside courses on Pacific themes.

Research Interests

International politics of the South Pacific; regional and national governance in the South Pacific region; conflict and conflict resolution in the Pacific island states; and Australia's relations with the Pacific region

Key Publications

• Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific: The Legitimacy of Co-operative Intervention. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008 (co-edited with Tarcisius Kabutaulaka).
• 'Whose Oceania? Contending Visions of Community in Pacific Region-Building', in Michael Powles (ed.), Pacific Futures. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006: 204–15.
• '"Pooled Regional Governance" in the Island Pacific: Lessons from History', in Satish Chand (ed.), Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Press, 2005: 89–104.
• 'A Pacific "Arc of Crisis"? Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Oceania', in N. N. Vohra (ed.), India and Australasia: History, Culture and Society. New Delhi: India International Centre and Shipra Publications, 2004: 270–81.
• Contending Images of World Politics. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2000 (co-edited with Jacinta O'Hagan).
• 'Political Legitimacy and the Post-Colonial State in the Pacific: Reflections on Some Common Threads in the Fiji and Solomon Islands Coups', Pacifica Review, 12(3) 2000: 295–304.
• 'Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific', Contemporary Pacific, 9(2) 1997: 305–44.
• 'International Cooperation in the South Pacific: From Regional Integration to Collective Diplomacy', in W. Andrew Axline (ed.), The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation: Comparative Case Studies. London: Pinter Press, 1994, pp. 136–77.
• 'At the Margin: The South Pacific and Changing World Order', in Richard Leaver and James L. Richardson (eds), Charting the Post-Cold War Order. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 224–42.
• Australia's Regional Security. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991 (editor).
• 'Toward a South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 41(6) 1985: 16–20.

Career Highlights

Director of Graduate Studies in International Affairs (1988–2009); Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (1994); Visiting appointments at University of Hawaii, University of the South Pacific, International Peace Research Institute (Oslo).