Politics and International Relations
Staff
Associate Professor Geoffrey Hawker
POL 255,POL 307,POL 308,POL 395 Academic & HDR Advisor
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 President of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.
E-mail: geoffrey.hawker@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8885
Professor Murray Goot
BA (Syd) FASSA.
Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow
Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations
Macquarie University
His research focuses on public opinion, Australian politics and the mass media. His publications include Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and The Imagined Public (with Tim Rowse, MUP 2007), an edited volume on ‘Public Opinion and the War in Iraq' (special issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research (OUP, 2004), Developments in Australian Politics (edited with Judith Brett and James Gillespie, Macmillan, 1994), Make A Better Offer: The Politics of Mabo (edited with Tim Rowse, Pluto, 1994), and Australia's Gulf War (edited with Rod Tiffen, MUP, 1991). His current research includes: an ARC-funded study of the polls, the press and Australian politics since the 1940s; work on Mass-Observation; and a study of Australian attitudes to the United States, commissioned by the United States Study Centre at the University of Sydney.
Email: murray.goot@mq.edu.au
Tel: 9810 8183 (2007-08)
Associate Professor Morris Morley
POL 277, 279, 389Honours Convenor 2010
BA (Monash), MA & PHD ( State University of New York).
Senior Research Fellow, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington D.C. Research interests: US foreign policy toward the Third World, especially Latin America; The Third World and the Cold War; Domestic Forces and US foreign policy. Courses taught: International Relations; American Foreign Policy toward the Third World ; Revolutions. His books include: Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952-1987 (Cambridge 1987) U.S. Hegemony Under Siege ( Verso 1990, co-author), Washington Somoza and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in U.S.-Nicaraguan Relations, 1969-1981 (Cambridge 1995); Unfinished Business: America and Cuba After the Cold War, 1989-2001 (Cambridge 2002, co-author); Cuba, the United States, and the Post-Cold War World: The International Dimensions of the Washington-Havana Relationship (University Press of Florida, 2005, co-editor).
E-mail: mmorley@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8818
Professor Stephanie Lawson
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).
E-mail: stephanie.lawson@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8878
Associate Professor Sasha Pavkovic
On leave until January 2010
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.
E-mail: aleksandar.pavkovic@mq.edu.au or apavkovi1@yahoo.com
Tel: 9850 7043
Senior Lecturer Dr Andrew Mack
IRPG 837 & 849
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.
E-mail: andrew.mack@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8864
Lecturer Dr Gennaro Gervasio
POL 278, POL 322, POL 370
BA, Ph D (Naples "L'Orientale")
Gennaro Gervasio's teaching and research areas cover the broad area of Middle East and Muslim Contemporary Politics, and include the role of the Arab (mainly but not only secular) intellectuals, the politics of the Arab media, the processes of democratization and de-liberalization in the Arab World, the trajectories of radicalization, and the formation of new Islamic identities in the Muslim diasporas across the world.
An edited version of his doctoral dissertation, dealing with the history and the politics of the Marxist movement in Egypt (1967-1981), has just been published in Italian (Il dissenso laico in Egitto, Rome: Jouvence 2007) and is forthcoming in Arabic (al-Haraka al-Markisiyya fi Misr 1967-1981, Cairo: The Higher Council of Culture).
Before joining the Dept of Politics & Ir at MQ in April 2008, he has held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Mansoura (Egypt), Bristol (UK), Milan and Naples "L'Orientale" (Italy).
E-mail: Gennaro.Gervasio@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 9660
Lecturer Dr Lloyd Cox
(on leave Semester 1 2009)
POL 101, POL201, IRPG 833
Dr Cox's principal research and teaching areas are Australian and U.S. political history and foreign policy, globalization and nationalism, 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, globalization, U.S. foreign policy, and comparative 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 ). His latest research project compares U.S.-Australia relations leading up the Vietnam and second Gulf War respectively. Hence, his research interests are now turning to questions about Empire and the link between U.S. domestic politics and 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 Australian, U.S. and New Zealand political history, globalization and nationalism, US foreign relations, and political theory (especially around socialist thought, and citizenship).
E-mail: Lloyd.Cox@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 4096
Lecturer Dr Ian Tregenza
POL 107, POL 395
BA (Macq) PhD (UNSW).
Ian Tregenza's teaching is primarily in the area of political theory. He convenes the first year unit ‘Thinking Politically' (POL167) and co-convenes the third year unit ‘Politics,Theories and Methods' (POL391). His book Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes: A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas ( Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2003) is a revised version of his doctoral thesis. He is currently working on an ARC funded (2007-2010) research project on the tradition of philosophical Idealism in Australia, 1850-1950. Current areas of research include: British Idealism; Australian political thought; Australian citizenship; late nineteenth and early twentieth century religious thought.
E-mail: Ian.Tregenza@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8808
Lecturer Dr Lavina Lee
IRPG840, IRPG 857
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. She 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.”
E-mail: Lavina.Lee@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8872
Convenor Noah Bassil
POL 258, IRPG 855
Noah Bassil is currently completing a PhD in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University and researches areas of political economy and ethnic and racial politics. Noah has convened units in the areas of the Politics of Development and Underdevelopment, North African and Middle Eastern Politics, Politics of Terrorism. Noah holds a position as a Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Middle East and North African Studies Centre.
E-mail: Noah.Bassil@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8811
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