BA (Adel.) PhD (ANU) teaches African politics and Australian public policy. He has held research positions at the universities of NSW, Birmingham, Canberra and the ANU, was research director for the (Coombs) royal commission on Australian government administration and managed a consultancy firm for eight years. He is the vice-president of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.

Email: ghawker@hmn.mq.edu.au

Tony Palfreeman MA(ANU), Lic es Sc. Pol (Geneva) studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and at the A.N.U. He inaugurated the Master's program in international relations at the University of N.S.W., contributed to a similar program at Deakin University, and was a founding member of the team which established the MIR at Macquarie. His writing and research interests are in Australian foreign and immigration policies, and in the role of small states in global politics

Email: tonypalf@tig.com.au

Dip. Teach., BA, PhD (NE), has held teaching and research positions at the University of New England , the Australian National University and the University of East Anglia (UK). Her research focuses on issues concerning culture, ethnicity, nationalism, and democracy, and combines comparative and normative approaches to the study of world politics. She is the author of many articles dealing with these issues in the Asia-Pacific region as well as globally. Her recent books include Culture and Context in World Politics (Palgrave 2006), International Relations: A Short Introduction (Polity Press, 2003), Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Identity and Representations of Region (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and The New Agenda in International Relations: From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics? (Polity Press, 2001).

Email: Stephanie.Lawson@humn.mq.edu.au

Dr Cox's principal research and teaching areas are globalization and nationalism, US foreign policy, Australian and comparative politics, and political theory. Having completed a PhD that examined the relationship between accelerating globalization and intensified ethno-national conflict, he has since published articles on nationalism, and political-economic restructuring in Australia and New Zealand, about which he is currently writing a book (Altered States: New State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, 1983-2006). He is also working on an ARC project that compares economic and political developments in Australia and New Zealand since the late nineteenth century. His research interests are now turning to questions about Empire and US foreign policy, which are canvassed in the Masters course that he teaches on the United States in the International system. Dr Cox is interested in supervising post-graduate students working on aspects of globalization, nationalism, Australian and New Zealand politics, US foreign relations, and political theory (especially around socialist thought, and citizenship).

Email: lloyd.cox@humn.mq.edu.au

Lavina Lee has a combined law and commerce degree from the University of NSW, a Masters of Arts with distinction from King's College, University of London, and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Sydney. Her research interests include the role of culture and norms in international relations, legitimacy and US hegemony, international relations theory, international security, US foreign policy and developments in international law. Lavina was previously a consultant with Control Risks Group, and held a research position with Chatham House, London. Presently, she is teaching in the Masters program at Macquarie and has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Sydney and the University of NSW.

Email: lavina.lee@humn.mq.edu.au

BA (Flinders) MAQual (Adel) PhD (Syd). His professional career has included positions as laboratory manager for an Australian wool processing company, executive assistant to the former Federal Health Minister Dr Neal Blewett, and president of a national entertainment industry union. His career in the entertainment industry includes board membership with the film development corporation Film South, and with the Sydney-based film production company, Macau Light Co. He is a woodwind player and currently works with the rock-blues band Red Dog. His academic career has included teaching positions at Adelaide, Sydney, New South Wales and Boston universities and with Open Learning Australia. His recent publications include The Balance of Payments Crisis and Policies to overcome it (1997),The Hill is there, but who has the Light? (On Don Dunstan’s premiership) (2006) and Class, Ideology and Australian Industrial Relations (2006). His research priorities include an investigation of the sources and impacts of regional economic crises on systems and processes of regional organization in East Asia, with particular emphasis on terrorism. He is currently working with Humanities Dean Professor Christie Slade on a biography of South Australian premier Don Dunstan. He has been a long time editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy.

Email: andrew.mack@humn.mq.edu.au

Aleksandar Pavkovic , BA, MA (Yale), BPhil (Oxford), DrSci (Belgrade) - whom everyone calls Sasha - studied and taught philosophy before coming to political theory and comparative politics. His main research interests are theory and practice of secession, nationalist ideologies and European politics. He teaches courses on political theory, national self-determination and on the European Union. His books in English include Slobodan Jovanovic: An Unsentimental Approach to Politics (East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 1993), The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia (Palgrave, 1997 and 2000) and Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession (Ashgate, 2007). He has edited books on Yugoslav philosophy, nationalism, history of Serbia, identity and self-determination and on patriotism.

Email: aleksandar.pavkovic@mq.edu.au

Dr Keith Suter is the Consultant on Social Policy at Wesley Mission Sydney. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Global Business Network Australia, Consultant to Aged and Community Services (NSW), Health Services Association (NSW), and the Conflict Resolution Network.  His first doctorate was in the international law of guerrilla warfare and his second in the economic and social consequences of the arms race.
From 1991-1998, he was President of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney. Between 1979 and 1999 he was at various times the national and state presidents (NSW and WA) of the United Nations Association of Australia. In 1999 he was made a Life Member of the UN Association.
His latest book is “In Defence of Globalization” (University of New South Wales Press, 2001). In 1986: International Year of Peace, he was awarded the Australian Government’s Peace Medal. In 1994, he was voted “Australian Communicator of the Year”.

Email: keith.suter@wesleymission.org.au