International Studies Staff
Teaching International Studies at the Univeristy of Adelaide is conducted mainly within the Politics Discipline itself. The Discipline has a number of area studies specialists, inter alia: Associate Professor Felix Patrikeeff (Russia, Eastern Europe, Southeast and Northeast Asia); Dr Clem Macintyre (Western Europe & Australia); Associate Professor Peter Mayer (South Asia); Dr Juanita Elias (Southeast Asia & Western Europe); Dr Ian Hall (Western Europe). However, due to the multidisciplinary nature of the program, other academics contribute to it (from the Disciplines of Asian and European Studies, History, Philosophy, Geography/Environmental Studies). The program allows students to specialise in a number of sub-fields, which will include Security Studies, International Political Economy, International Justice and Society etc. As many of the offerings intended for this expansion are already available, students should consult with the Programme Director for guidance on how to shape their individual study plans to maximise the coherence of studies they pursue. An especially important decision for the student is the thesis area chosen by them. Such a process should come at the end of the student's coursework, and will involve personal consultation with the Program Director regarding the topic and the likely supervisor.
Program Convenor
Associate Professor Felix Patrikeeff
Felix Patrikeeff is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the International Studies program. His research interests are in the fields of International Relations, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Political History and Geopolitics / Security Studies, and in a variety of settings (the Asia-Pacific region, China and Hong Kong (SAR), Russia and its borderlands, Central and Inner Asia). he has supervised a wide range of successful research theses in these areas. Before he came to Adelaide, Felix coordinated postgradate programs in International Studies in Sydney and Penang, Malaysia. Felix has a large number of books, chapters and scholarly papers to his credit, including Russian Politics in Exile (2002), and, more recently, jointly authored / edited books on Railways and the Russo-Japanese War (2006), and The Asia-Pacific Region and a New International Order (2006).
Dr Ian Hall
Ian Hall joined the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in International Politics in July 2006. He was previously a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and, between February and May 2006, a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at La Trobe University. He read Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford, and holds a MLitt in International Security Studies and a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. His past research has examined the thought of a number of twentieth century historians and international theorists, including Herbert Butterfield, Arnold Toynbee and Charles Webster. In 2006, he published The International Thought of Martin Wight (New York: Palgrave), the first full-length study to explore the thought of that highly influential theorist. He has also published on political realism, the 'English school', conservatism, strategic coercion, and international ethics. Ian is currently working on two collaborative projects, on British international thinkers and on international ethics, as well as his own projects on 'the revolt against the West' and on utopianism and international theory. He has been a recipient of research funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the Qantas Early Career Researcher Travel Fund, and University of Adelaide Faculty Small Research Grants.
Dr Juanita Elias
Juanita Elias is Lecturer in International Politics and a key member of the teaching staff in International Studies. her research interests include gender perspectives in International Political Economy, the politics of corporate social responsibility and the political economy of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She is author of Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Company and Gendered Employment in a Globalising World (2004). Most recently she has published work in the journals International Feminist Journal of Politics and New Political Economy. Before Juanita came to Adelaide, she taught at the University of Manchester.
Associate Professor John Perkins
John Perkins, BSc (Econ.), Hull, Ph. D, UNSW, was educated at Hull and Munich universities. Recently retired from teaching economic history and economics at the University of New South Wales, he is currently Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Economics, Macquarie University. He has held visiting professorships at the Technical University of Berlin and the universities of Rostock and Nottingham and published numerous articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books on the German-Australian relationship, German economic and social history, the history of retailing and Australian economic and social history. He co-authored, with Robert Conlon, Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Australia (Ashgate, 2000). A recently article is 'Nazi Foreign Trade Policy and Australia, 1933-1939', Australian Historical Studies, XIII, 2004. Currently he is completing a book on the German Nazi Party in Australia and researching Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence in Australia between the world wars.
Mr Simon Pope
Simon Pope is the Science Team Leader for Estimative Intelligence at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Queensland, a Masters degree in Cognitive Science from the University of New South Wales, and is undertaking his Ph.D in Political Science at the University of Adelaide.
Before joining DSTO in 2006 he was a Senior Research Scientist for the CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC), undertaking research into approaches and technologies for estimative intelligence analysis. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratories in New York and made significant contributions to IBM software and technologies that are in use world-wide.
He has also worked as a management consultant, writer, programmer, and engineer - but asks people not to hold that against him. He has never been a member of a secret society (though if he were he probably wouldn't tell you), but would like to be asked all the same. He considers himself something of an expert on Harry Potter but acknowledges the few job opportunities this affords. His goal in life is to become filthy rich doing something that he loves doing (like that's any different to anyone else), but will gladly accept cash donations in return for absolutely no consideration. His immediate goal is to put "science" back into "Political Science" but recognizes that a few other vowels and consonants may also be needed. He blathers on for no apparent reason when asked to write biographical summaries in the faint hope that someone, somewhere will one day laugh.
Mr Jason Sargent
Jason Sargent currently works for the Department of Defence in the area
of Protective Security. Prior to joining Defence he was an officer for the Australian
Federal Police as a Protective Service officer. Jason was fortunate enough to
be offered the opportunity to work OS with the AFP and gained valuable experiences
and insights as a result. Jason has also previously worked in the area of Intelligence
and is currently lecturing in Practical Intelligence at the University of Adelaide.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Policing in which he concentrated his studies mostly
in the field of Intelligence, Organised and Transnational crime. He also holds
qualifications as an Intelligence analyst. Jason will be undertaking a Grad Dip
in Psychology in 2009. Jason was formerly the state representative for AIPIO (Australian
Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers), and he continues to hold membership
of the organisation.
Mr Charles Vandepeer
Charles Vandepeer is currently completing a PhD on how Western Intelligence
Agencies perceive threats. His research includes approaches to understanding and
visualising current and future threat environments. Publications include: Addressing
the Challenge of the Unknown, The Journal of the Australian Instiute of Professional
Intelligence Officers, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007.
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