Politics and International Relations
Staff & Consultation Hours
Students are generally encouraged to be resourceful and be able to carry out their own research, but academic staff are available for consultation within term teaching weeks. Consultation hours vary each semester according to teaching commitments. It is recommended that you make an appointment by email. Please keep in mind that academics have a busy teaching schedule and will not be always be able to respond immediately.
Staff
Dr Geoffrey Hawker
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
Senior Lecturer Tony Palfreeman
MIR Founding Member
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
Prof Stephanie Lawson
MIR Convenor - IRPG841
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 Lloyd Cox
(on leave Semester 1 2009)
IRPG833
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
Lecturer Dr Lavina Lee
IRPG831 & IRPG857
Lavina Lee has a combined law and commerce degree from the University of NSW, a Master of Arts with distinction from King's College, University of London, and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Sydney. In 2008 she was awarded the Australian Political Science Association prize for best doctoral dissertation. 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.
Lavina’s research interests include the role of culture and norms in international relations, legitimacy and US hegemony, US foreign policy and developments in international law on the use of force, international security, and nuclear non-proliferation issues. In 2009 Lavina was awarded a grant by Macquarie University to pursue a project on the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement and its implications for Australian nuclear policy.
In February 2010, Routledge will publish Lavina Lee's first book, US Hegemony and Legitimacy: Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq.
Email: lavina.lee@humn.mq.edu.au
Dr Andrew Mack
IRPG837 & IRPG849
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
Assoc Prof Aleksandar (Sasha) Pavkovic
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
IRPG840 & IRPG844
Dr Keith Suter is an economic and social commentator, strategic planner, conference speaker, author and broadcaster.
As a broadcaster, he appears on Australian radio an average of once per day. He is the TV Channel 7 “Sunrise” foreign affairs editor appearing on weekday mornings. He is also a foreign policy analyst for Sky TV Australia and Radio 4BC Brisbane.
He also holds the following offices:
- Director of Studies, International Law Association (Australian Branch)
- Chairperson, International Commission of Jurists (NSW)
- Chairperson, International Humanitarian Law Committee, Australian Red Cross (NSW)
- Board member, Wesley Mission, Sydney
His first degree is from the University of Sussex (international relations/ international law). His first doctorate (University of Sydney) was on the international law of guerrilla warfare (a study of the two 1977 Additional Protocols to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions) and his second (Deakin University) was on the economic and social consequences of the arms race.
He has been a member of the international think tank The Club of Rome since 1993.
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”. In 2007 he was awarded the Australian Red Cross Distinguished Service Medal.
Email: keith.suter@pict.mq.edu.au
Those applying for entry to the Master of Politics and Public Policy to commence in the 1st Semester, 2009 should
1. Apply through UAC online: www.uac.edu.au
2. Send a copy of your cv to MPP@humn.mq.edu.au
Enrolment can be full time or part time, as internal or distance students.
For further details on posgraduate studies and application information please visit the Postgraduate Studies Website
The University has set the fees for 2009 at @ $460.00 per credit point.
Closing dates for applications in the first half-year 2009 are:
For ext/distance students
Main date 31 October 2008
Final date 12 December 2008.
For internal students
Main date 31 October 2008
Final date 9 January 2009.
Initial inquiries please phone:
(02) 9850-8869
Email: MPP@humn.mq.edu.au