Politics and International Security experts
Murdoch University’s political experts offer a wide range of knowledge on local, state, national and international politics; political and social practices; politics and the internet; citizenship, democracy and governance; environmental politics and globalisation; Australian government; and political and ideological tensions relating to nationalism.
Murdoch’s international security experts focus on terrorism in a globalised world, international security, ethnic conflict, insurgency movements and counterinsurgency operations, ethnic secession in world politics, military and non-military approaches to conflict management, international law and politics, and the United Nations.
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Professor Sam Makinda
Security, terrorism and counter-terrorism Professor Samuel Makinda is the Professor of Politics and International Studies and the Chair of Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies at Murdoch University. He currently serves on the Australian Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee for International Security Issues. He is also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. He has research experience in the following areas: Transnational terrorism, arms control, security in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Professor Makinda was invited by the Kenyan Government to serve as a consultant to the biennial conference of Kenya’s ambassadors and high commissioners in Nairobi in May 2007. He also helped to establish a new Foreign Service Institute for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nairobi. He previously worked with the Foreign Affairs Group in the Parliamentary Research Service at the Australian Federal Parliament in 1980s, where he briefed Members of House of Representatives, Senators, Ministers and Parliamentary Committees on various international security issues, including US-Soviet relations and arms control. |
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Dr Shahar HameiriNon-traditional security in the Asia-Pacific region Shahar Hameiri’s work has focused on non-traditional (non-military) security issues and their management in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular he has examined Australian state-building interventions in the South Pacific and Australian aid and security policies in that region. Apart from publishing scholarly work he has written often for online and print media on these issues. Dr Hameiri is an Australian Research Council Postdoctural Fellow, a fellow of Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre and a lecturer in international politics in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Dr Ian CookAustralian politics, Western Australian politics, political thought in Australia, the internet and politics Dr Ian Cook specialises in providing independent and critical commentary on Australian and Western Australian politics. He has also published works examining the forms of liberalism that have been influential in Australian politics and society, including Liberalism in Australia, and on the effects of the internet on politics and society. As co-author of Government and Democracy in Australia, a textbook on Australian politics, and Keyword in Australian Politics, Dr Cook is committed to explaining the nature of Australian politics in a way which makes it accessible and interesting. |
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Rajat GangulyEthnic conflict, terrorism and security Dr Rajat Ganguly is Program Chair in Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies and a senior lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University. An acknowledged expert in his field, Dr Ganguly is widely published in the areas of ethnic conflict, insurgency and terrorism; conflict, development and security; conflict management and peace building; foreign policy analysis; democracy, human rights, good governance; and South Asian politics, security and foreign policy. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of South Asian Development. |
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Dr Jane HutchisonSocial and political change in the Philippines Dr Hutchison’s research interests include labour and urban poor movements in the Philippines, political economy of development effectiveness and transnational activism. She teaches in Murdoch’s politics and international studies and development studies programs, and is a Fellow of Murdoch's Asia Research Centre. |
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Dr Janice DudleyAustralian politics and government; democracy and citizenship, sustainability, and environmental politics Dr Janice Dudley is an expert on issues of democracy and citizenship, citizenship education, Australian government and politics, sustainability, and environmental politics. She teaches Australian politics and government, and environmental politics and is the coordinator of the Parliamentary and Public Sector internship program at Murdoch University. Dr Dudley was an active participant in the Schools Constitutional Convention Program since the early 1990s, and has been a final checker and independent reviewer for the WA TEE (Yr 12) Political and Legal Studies Examination Paper since 1997. |
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