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Research

The School of History and Politics has a diverse and exciting research culture. We have a broad scope of both history and politics research. The School supports a large group of postgraduates and research fellows, making for a highly stimulating research environment.

Fields of Research: History Discipline

  • American history
  • Art history
  • Australian and comparative Indigenous and migrant history
  • British studies
  • French studies
  • Global production of commodities
  • Gastronomy/History and culture of food and drink
  • Legal and constitutional history
  • Police history
  • Russian history
  • Social, cultural and military history of warfare

Fields of Research: Politics Discipline

Comparative Politics | Area Studies | International Politics | Feminist Political theory | Political Theory | History of Political Thought | Radical and Cultural Theory | Australian Politics

Comparative Politics

  • Comparative British/Australian politics
  • Development theory
  • Gender and issues in liberalism and liberal democratic theory
  • Humanitarianism and conflict
  • Human rights in the Third World
  • India’s political economy
  • Political economy of suicide and homicide
  • Political economy of the Third World
  • Political Leadership
  • Political management of economic reform
  • Political obstacles to development
  • Rural development
  • Voting and suffrage

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Area Studies

  • African political theory
  • African Politics
  • African politics
  • Geopolitics of Northeast Asia
  • Middle East
  • North American Politics
  • Politics of Zimbabwe
  • Post-Socialist Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
  • South Pacific politics
  • Southeast Asian politics
  • West European Politics

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International Politics

  • Alienation & Terrorism
  • Asymmetric Conflict
  • Australian Foreign Policy
  • Balance of Power in Asia
  • Chinese Foreign Policy
  • Concepts of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region
  • Critical Security Studies
  • Human Rights & International Justice
  • International Political Economy
  • International Politics of Culture
  • International Relations Theory
  • Russian Foreign Policy

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Feminist Political Theory

  • Citizenship and community theory
  • History of feminist thought.
  • Politics of sexuality
  • Women and policy

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Political Theory

  • Language, identity and cultural membership
  • Philosophy of J.G. Herder
  • Political communication.
  • Political language and rhetorical theory
  • Politics of film, media and popular culture
  • Social capital
  • Theories of ethics and identity

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History of Political Thought

  • Communitarianism
  • Development and prehistory of liberalism and Stoicism.
  • Early French socialism
  • French Political thought
  • Multiculturalism
  • Nationalism

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Radical and Cultural Theory

  • Autonomy and anarchism
  • Cooperatives and the market
  • Cultural criticism and critical theory
  • Market socialism
  • Marxism and Anarchism
  • Media and cultural theory
  • Political theory of the community
  • Post-colonial theory
  • Post-structuralism and Post-modernism
  • Theories of ideology and discourse

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Australian Politics

  • Aboriginal studies
  • Australian Liberal and Labor Governments
  • Parliamentary and Constitutional Reform.
  • Public Policy theory and practice
  • Republicanism