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Members of staff and their fields of special interest

SUSAN BLACKBURN Foreign aid; Southeast Asian development policies; gender and Asian politics; non-government organisations and social movements in Southeast Asia.

ANDREW BUTFOY International relations with special reference to arms control, strategic studies, concepts of international security, and the US in world politics.

BRIAN COSTAR Australian politics with special reference to elections and parties, especially the National Party, State politics and the politics of labour.

JOHN DALTON Australian politics and foreign policy; Malaysia; Fiji; Australia and the South Pacific.

ALASTAIR DAVIDSON Social and political theory with special reference to modern European theory; human rights, citizenship and the republican question; Marxist studies; the state and constitutional reform in Australia. Aspects of modern European politics, especially Italian; globalism.

ROBYN ECKERSLEY Green politics and philosophy, modern social and public policy, political theory, new social movements, environmental philosophy, environmental law and ecological economics.

NICK ECONOMOU Australian politics, especially public policy, environmental policy and politics, federal and state elections, Australian media and politics.

HUGH EMY Australian politics; political theory; liberalism, democracy and the state.

HYAM GOLD Political behaviour, Australia and New Zealand politics; Australia - New Zealand relations.

DAVID GOLDSWORTHY Australian foreign policy; politics of development; decolonisation; North-South relations.

PAUL JAMES Social and political theory; nationalism, the state and community; Australian politics with special reference to cultural studies, and the impact of technology on politics and democracy.

MICHAEL JANOVER History of political thought; ancient Greek culture, politics and philosophy; critical theories of modernity and postmodernity.

PETER LENTINI: Russian domestic politics, comparative postcommunist politics, European politics, electoral studies, women's representation, gender and cultural politics.

RAY NICHOLS Culture and political action; politics and philosophy of language; political theory (modern-contemporary European); ideology; epistemology, hermeneutics; contemporary America; early twentieth-century France.

TONY O'GRADY Chinese politics with special reference to military and Communist Party leadership and to the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Christian churches in China; Indian parties and elections.

ANDREW PERRY Modern politics and economics of Japan, Korea and the Philippines; East Asian international relations; American foreign policy, especially in relation to Asia; politics of international and transnational trade and finance; Japanese relations with Southeast Asia and Australia.

HARRY REDNER Nature of past civilisations; the present global system as a civilisational world; technology and science; nuclear arms race; urban metropolises; international balance of power; third world and non-European societies.

CHRIS REUS-SMIT International relations theory; history of state systems; political economy; culture, social norms and ideas in international politics; international institutions; international law; theories of state formation; the United Nations; ethics and international relations; critical theory.

GILLIAN ROBINSON: Theories of modernity, particularly democracy, citizenship and the nation state; ancient Greek politics and philosophy; Australian politics and culture; feminist critiques of modern political theory; European social and political theory; contemporary ethical and moral philosophy

COLIN RUBENSTEIN Aspects of public policy formation and implementation, including foreign and defence policies; science and technology policies, energy policy, multiculturalism; Middle East.

ROGER SPEGELE The theory of international relations with special reference to critiques of realism. International political economy, historical and contemporary including Australia's current trading problems; ethics and politics, globalism; political theory and aspects of literary studies.

DENNIS WOODWARD Australian politics with special reference to elections and parties; Chinese politics with special references to the People's Liberation Army and to industrial and agricultural policies.

DAVID WRIGHT-Neville Critical theory, cultural politics and the politics of identity; the relationship between politics and culture in East Asia; Western conceptions of East Asia; the politics of East-West contacts, especially Australia-Asia relations; contemporary East Asian capitalism; Japanese, Malaysian and Singaporean politics.


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