| Francesca Beddie is a co-founder and director of Make Your Point consultancy. She had fifteen years' experience in the Australian Public Service, both in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (with postings to Jakarta , Moscow and Berlin ) and as part of the senior management team in the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). She was a member of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee Taskforce on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation. Between 2002 and 2004 she was the Executive Director of Adult Learning Australia (ALA), the peak body representing adult learning providers in Australia . She is presently Editor of the Asian Studies Association of Australia's monthly e-bulletin, Asian Currents (http://iceaps.anu.edu.au/ac/asian-currents-06-02.html), and a public member of the Australian Press Council.
Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest, Adjunct Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Professor of Law in the Institute of Legal Studies at the Australian Catholic University, and Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He was the founding director of Uniya , the Australian Jesuit Social Justice Centre. In 2005, he returned to Australia from a fellowship at Boston College . His books on Aboriginal issues include The Wik Debate (1998), One Land One Nation (1995), and Land Rights Queensland Style (1992). His books on civil liberties are Too Much Order with Too Little Law (1983), and Legislating Liberty (1998). His book Tampering with Asylum (2003) compares Australia 's asylum policies with those of other first world countries. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation, and was awarded the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal for his work in East Timor and the Australian Centenary Medal for his service with refugees and human rights work in the Asia Pacific Region. During the 1998 Wik debate, Paul Keating christened him the meddling priest. The National Trust has classified him as a Living National Treasure.
Michael Carrel is a retired naval officer who served as Defence Attaché at the Australian Embassy in Paris during the mid-1990s. On leaving the Royal Australian Navy, he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a delegate to the Armed and Security Forces, based in Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina . He currently maintains a connection with the Red Cross as a member of the Board of the Australian Red Cross (ACT) and as Chair of its International Humanitarian Law Committee. He has recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne on Australia 's Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of Japanese Defendants. He works for the Commonwealth Ombudsman in Canberra .
Andrew Cooper is Associate Director of The Centre for International Governance Innovation and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo . He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and has been a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University , Washington , D.C. (2000). His books include In Between Countries: Australia, Canada and the Search for Order in Agricultural Trade (1997), and Tests of Global Governance: Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World Conferences (2004); as co-author (with Kim Nossal and Richard Higgott), Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order (1993); as editor, Niche Diplomacy: Middle Powers After the Cold War (1997); and as co-editor (all with John English and Ramesh Thakur), Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy? (2002), International Commissions and the Power of Ideas (2005), and Reforming from the Top: A Leaders' 20 Summit (2005).
Megan Davis is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Technology , Sydney . She has seven years' experience in international law including work as a legal researcher for the Foundation of Aboriginal Islander Research Action (FAIRA), as legal advisor and consultant to ATSIC at the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the United Nations Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She held a United Nations Fellowship at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in 1999. She has a BA (Australian Studies) and an LLB from the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland ( Duchesne College ) and has a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and LLM (International Law) from The Australian National University. She is currently researching the emerging right to liberal democratic governance at international law. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australia Capital Territory and practised as Legal Counsel in the administrative and native title law section of Legal Affairs, ATSIC. She has lectured for three years in Public Law and Australian Legal Systems and Process at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law. She is on the Editorial Board for Balayi and the Journal of Indigenous Policy and the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter . She is also on the Management Committee for the Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales .
John Eddy, SJ is Director of the Australian Institute of Jesuit Studies. After completing his DPhil at Oxford University , he served for many years as Senior Fellow in History in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. His publications include Britain and the Australian Colonies 1818-1831: The Techniques of Government (1968).
Frédéric Grare is currently Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and a superior degree in political science from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as Counselor for cooperation and culture at the Embassy of France, Islamabad . Prior to this assignment he was Director of the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi . His most recent publications include India , China , Russia : Intricacies of an Asian Triangle (2004) (co-edited with Gilles Boquerat); and Political Islam in the Indian Subcontinent: The Jamaat-i-Islami (2002).
Owen Harries was Editor-in-Chief of the Washington-based journal The National Interest during 1985-2001. Previously he had taught at the Universities of Sydney and NSW; been Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser; Head of Policy Planning in the Department of Foreign Affairs; Australian Ambassador to UNESCO; and a Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He was principal author of the report Australia and the Third World ; editor of volumes on America's Purpose (1991) and China in the National Interest (2003); and author of over two hundred articles in leading journals, magazines and newspapers.
Jorge Heine is Chilean Ambassador to India . Previously, he was a Professor of Political Science at Diego Portales University (2000-2003), Director of the International Affairs Program at the Chile 21 Foundation (2001-2003), a Consulting Professor at Stanford University (1999-2003) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2002-2003). He also served as the Minister of National Assets of Chile (1999). Prior to that he served as Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), as well as non-resident Ambassador to Mozambique , Namibia , Swaziland and Zimbabwe . He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books, including Looking Sideways: The Specifics of South-South Co-operation (1998), The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City (1993), and A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada (1991). His articles have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and The Miami Herald and he is the author of over fifty book chapters in symposium volumes and articles published in journals lincluding PS: Political Science and Politics, The Wilson Quarterly, Caribbean Review, Revista de Ciencia Política, Estudios Internacionales, Cono Sur and Transafrica Forum . After attending Santiago 's German School , he graduated from the University of Chile Law School in 1972 and did graduate studies in Political Science at York University in England , where he received a BPhil in Modern Political Analysis and at Stanford University in California , where he received an MA and a PhD.
John Hemery is the founder and Director of the Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies (CPDS), a private institution contributing to the development of good governance. He was educated at Dartmouth College in the United States , and at Oxford and Cambridge . After an academic career in international relations, latterly as Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Leeds , he developed and directed for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office a ten-year program of diplomatic training and parliamentary exchange for the twenty-seven governments of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia emerging after 1989. Since then he has designed and directed specialist courses and study visits for diplomats, politicians, officials and civil society organisations in forty countries, including a five-year program of assistance to the thirteen governments preparing for Accession to the European Union. He and his colleagues prepare British diplomats for political work and political negotiation, and also deliver training in negotiation and chairing skills to governments preparing for the Presidency of the EU. He is currently Chair of the UK Forum on Diplomatic Training, Chair of the European Diplomatic Training Initiative, and Rapporteur of the International Forum on Diplomatic Training. His recent publications include ‘Training Diplomats for 2015' in Net Diplomacy: 2015 and Beyond (2001); and ‘Training for Public Diplomacy: an evolutionary perspective', in The New Public Diplomacy: soft power in international relations (2005).
Pauline Kerr took up an appointment as Fellow and Director of Studies at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in January 2004. She is an Honours graduate of The Australian National University, from which she also received her PhD. Before joining the College, she had served as Academic coordinator, Diploma of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra; Academic Adviser, Australian Defence College; and Research Fellow in International Relations at The Australian National University. Her research is focused on human security, traditional security, conflict management, and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region. Her recent publications include ‘Trends and Options in Transnational Policy: A Conference Report', Australian Journal of International Affairs , vol.59, no.1, March 2005, pp.19-23 (with William Maley); ‘The Contemporary Asia-Pacific Security Situation: The Challenges for Diplomacy in the Push for Peace', in Peter Greener (ed.), The Push For Peace (2005) pp.64-76; ‘The Utility of the Human Security Agenda for Policy Makers', Asian Journal of Political Science , vol.11, no.2, December 2003, pp.89-114 (with William Tow and Marianne Hanson); The Evolving Dialectic Between State-centric and Human-centric Security (Canberra: Working Paper 2003/2, Department of International Relations, The Australian National University, 2003); and 'Human Security', in Alan Collins (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies (2006).
Klaus-Peter Klaiber is a Visiting Fellow of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy. After obtaining a law degree in 1966 from the University of Mainz, Germany, and further postgraduate studies in Politics, Economics and History in Geneva , Switzerland , he joined the German Foreign Service in 1968. He has served in Kinshasa , Nairobi , Washington DC and London . He was Deputy Political Director (1992-1995) and Head of Policy Planning in the German Foreign Ministry (1995-1997). He was Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs at NATO Headquarters in Brussels (1997-2001) and Special Representative of the European Union in Afghanistan (2002) before serving as German Ambassador to Australia (2002-2005).
Martine Letts became Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy in January 2005 following four years as the Secretary General (CEO) of Australian Red Cross and a 17-year career with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She served as Australian Ambassador to Argentina , Uruguay and Paraguay , and Deputy Head of Mission and Australian Deputy Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna , and was an adviser to Foreign Minister Evans from 1992 to 1994. She specialised in arms control and disarmament on postings in Geneva , Vienna and as a policy officer in DFAT. She serves on two advisory committees to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: the Executive Committee of the Council on Latin America Relations (COALAR) and the National Consultative Committee on International Security Issues (NCCISI). She was appointed to the Council of The Australian National University on 1 July 2004 and is a member of the inaugural Board of Nonprofit Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Political Science and German) from The Australian National University, and speaks French, German and Spanish.
Geoffrey Brahm Levey is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales , and was foundation director of the UNSW Program in Jewish Studies from 1996-2005. He is editor of Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism (2006), and co-editor (with Philip Mendes) of Jews and Australian Politics (2004), and (with Tariq Modood and Ien Ang) of Secularism, Muslims, and Multicultural Citizenship (2006).
David Lovell is Professor of Politics at the University College of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy . He was born and raised in Adelaide , where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees; he came to Canberra in 1981 to write his PhD under the supervision of Prof Eugene Kamenka in the History of Ideas Unit at The Australian National University. He has taught at the University of New South Wales since 1983. During the early 1990s, he edited The Political Theory Newsletter , and was managing editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science . In 1992, he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and since 1993 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is on the editorial board of its journal, The European Legacy . He was a participant in the China-Australia Joint Seminar on Civil Society in Beijing in 1999, and was a member of the Australian government delegation to the Second Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, held in The Hague , May 2001. He is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He was Head of the School of Politics at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy from 2001-2003, and was Presiding Member of the Research Committee, 2003-2004, before acting as Rector of University College in 2004. He spent the first half of 2005 as a Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University's National Europe Centre, and the second half as a Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy.
William Maley is Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy , a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde , and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Refugee Studies Programme at Oxford University . He is author of The Afghanistan Wars (2002), edited Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (1998, 2001), and co-edited From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States (2003).
Mangala Moonesinghe is a Barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple , London , and has served Sri Lanka as both a diplomat and MP. His parliamentary service, from 1965-1977 and 1989-1994, included terms as Executive Member of both the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. He was a Member of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by the Heads of State of South Asian Nations to identify measures and mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) to achieve its objectives, and in 1997 was a Member of the International Assessment Mission to report on the status of Governance in Nepal organized by The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, Sweden. He was High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India from 1995-2000 and 2002-2005, and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom from 2000-2002.
Stuart Murray is Teaching Fellow in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at Bond University , where he has been undertaking his PhD. His research is concerned with reordering diplomatic theory, with the aim of introducing and constructing three distinctive theoretical categories: traditional, nascent and innovative. He will be joining the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in June 2006 as a Visiting Fellow, where he plans to work on the publication of his thesis whilst engaging in many of the day-to-day activities of the College.
Paul O'Callaghan is Executive Director of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). In his 19 years in government service, he served as Australia 's High Commissioner in Samoa and had assignments in Malaysia and Thailand . He was a trade adviser to the then Trade Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Primary Industry in 1996–97. He has degrees from The Australian National University and the London School of Economics and completed the Benevolent Society's Sydney Leadership program in 2002. He has served on the boards of a number of non-profit organisations and is active in the St Vincent de Paul Society at a local level. He is a member of the National Nonprofit Roundtable and Australian Collaboration and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He is also a board member of the Australian Society for Association Executives (ACT chapter). He played a major role in shaping the national disability employment reform agenda between 2001 and 2004 as the disability service provider representative. He led the sector through an historic Australian Industrial Relations Commission process to ensure fair pay for people with disabilities.
April W. Palmerlee is Director of Potomac Partners Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based consulting firm specializing in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the think tank The Centre for Independent Studies. Prior to that, she was Senior Coordinator of International Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State from January 2002 until April 2003. As Senior Coordinator, she was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy concerning women worldwide. She and her team established, evaluated, and extended programs to promote women's political and economic participation in their countries with the aim of increasing democracy and human rights worldwide. In her capacity as head of women's issues for the State Department, she also lead or co-chaired numerous American delegations on these issues to international meetings and ministerials, such as APEC, OAS, and the UN. Prior to her appointment, she was an executive at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York , America 's largest non-partisan foreign policy think tank. There she was, successively, Special Assistant to the President, Director of Communications, and Director of Strategic Planning. She has also worked for couturier and philanthropist Oscar de la Renta, Montréal-based financial publisher The Bank Credit Analyst , and non-governmental organization The Spanish Institute. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service and a Master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University 's School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to English, she speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish, and Italian.
Haider Reza is Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan , a position he has held since 2002. He received his first degree (BSc) from Carthage College , Wisconsin in 1976, and his MD degree from Kabul University Medical College in 1982. From 1983 to 1986, he performed medical duties with the Afghan Mujahideen in the Panjsher valley under Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. From 1986 to 1994, he worked for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan , and in 1995-1996 was Secretary-General of the Afghan Red Crescent Society. From 1996 to 2002 he served as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan , Iraq and Yugoslavia .
Peter Rodgers is is a former senior Australian diplomat. His 24 years in the foreign service included postings to Indonesia and Egypt and, between 1994 and 1997, as the Australian Ambassador to Israel . He has also worked as a journalist. As the Jakarta correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age he received the Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting on East Timor . He left government service in 1998 to resume his writing career. He has since taught Middle Eastern politics at The Australian National University's Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and at the Centre for Strategic and Defence Studies in Canberra . His most recent book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Herzl's Nightmare—one land, two peoples , was published in Australia in 2004 and has since been published both in the US and the UK . He is currently working on a new book, looking at the Middle East in the year 2020.
John Sanderson retired from the position of Governor of Western Australia in October 2005 after five years in that role. He was Chief of the Australian Army 1995-1998 and commanded the United Nations Peacekeeping Force during the period of UN transition authority in Cambodia(UNTAC) throughout the mission from March 1992 to the completion in October 1993. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Australian Staff College , the Joint Services Staff College and the United States Army War College . He is a civil engineer by background, holds honorary doctorates from a number of institutions and is an Adjunct Professor of both Murdoch and Griffith University . He has commanded at all levels including on operational service in Borneo , Vietnam and Cambodia .
Ralph Seccombe is a graduate of the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge . He joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972, and had diplomatic postings in Pretoria , Lagos , Vienna , Warsaw and Islamabad . In Canberra , he worked on a variety of political, economic, trade and managerial issues, including United Nations economic agencies. In 1991-1993 he served with the United Nations on secondment, representing the UN International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in Pakistan . Since retiring from the Australian Public Service in 2001, he has worked part-time as an editor and writer. He lives in Lake Macquarie , NSW.
Michael Smith is CEO of AUSTCARE, an Australian non-government development organisation that assists refugees, displaced people, returnees and those impacted by landmines to reduce poverty and enhance human security through the provision of emergency assistance and development programs. Major-General Smith was the first Deputy Force Commander of the UN Peacekeeping Force in East Timor (UNTAET) from January 2000 to March 2001, and immediately prior was Director General East Timor in the Australian Defence Force where he worked closely with the UN Secretariat during the UNAMET and INTERFET missions. He is the author of Peacekeeping in East Timor: The Path to Independence (2003). He has an MA in International Relations from The Australian National University and is a graduate of the Australian College for Defence and Strategic Studies. He was a UN military observer in Kashmir (1974-75), and as Australian Defence Attache in Cambodia (1994) worked with the UN office and UN agencies in the immediate post-UNTAC period. He has presented on peacekeeping and peacebuilding at a number of international conferences. He is on the Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Foreign Minister's National Consultative Committee on International Security Issues.
Rebecca Smith is Amnesty International Australia's Advocacy Coordinator. She is responsible for coordinating the organisation's advocacy work across Australian Parliaments, governments and their agencies and for strengthening the organisation's networks with NGOs, community organisations and independent agencies. She is also responsible for Amnesty International's advocacy work regarding intergovernmental organisations in Australia and implementing the organisation's global strategies and activities in this area. She has a broad background in advocacy, policy development and government relations experience from NGO, political and government agency perspectives.
Shankari Sundararaman is Associate Professor at the Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies of the School of International Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University , where she teaches Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests pertain to politics and security in the Asia-Pacific region with a special emphasis on Southeast Asia, particularly on Indonesia and Cambodia . Her research also focuses on the evolution of India 's Look East Policy and its expansion to cover regions of the South Pacific. She participated in the Fourth India-Australia Security Roundtable held at Canberra in April 2005, a track II initiative between these two countries. Dr Sundararaman has also worked as a member of the research faculty of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and has several publications to her credit, including Cambodia: The Lost Decades (2000). She is the recipient of the ASIA Fellows Award for 2005-06 and as part of this, is expected to be based at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta as a Visiting Fellow later this year. As a Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy from May-July 2005, Dr Sundararaman conducted research on relations between India , Indonesia and Australia .
Koichiro Tanaka is Director of JIME Center and Group Manager of Iran Group, Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ), Tokyo , Japan . He received his BA in Persian linguistics from the Faculty of Foreign Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and an MA Degree on Persian linguistics from the Graduate School of the same university in 1988. He started his carrier at the Embassy of Japan in Tehran as a Political Attaché in 1989, and then in 1992 joined the Japanese Institute of Middle Eastern Economics (JIME) as a Senior Researcher to follow the political events in Iran . He maintained this position until he left the Institute in late 1998 in order to serve the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan (UNSMA), which in those days was headed by Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, as a Political Affairs Officer. After the completion of his Mission in October 2001, he immediately joined the International Development Center of Japan, and subsequently reunited with JIME from June 2004. Apart from his research activities, he has contributed to the International Observation for the Election/Selection of the Emergency Loya Jirga in May to June 2002 and the two EU missions for the observation of presidential election and parliamentary election in Afghanistan in years 2004 and 2005 respectively.
Russell Trood is a Liberal Senator for Queensland . Prior to his election Senator Trood was an Associate Professor of International Relations at Griffith University . He has a LLB from the University of Sydney , a Masters in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales , and a PhD in international relations from Dalhousie University , Canada . He has published extensively on Australian strategic and defence policy, including most recently Powershift: challenges for Australia in Northeast Asia (2004) (with William Tow). He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute and member of a number of foreign affairs committees and institutes.
Ronald Walker is a Senior Special Fellow of UNITAR and Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy. He has studied at Sophia University ( Tokyo ) Cambridge , and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was an Australian diplomat for 38 years with eight postings overseas (three at Ambassadorial level) and twelve different assignments in Canberra (six in the Senior Executive Service). His areas of specialisation were initially South East Asia but from 1974 to 1996 international security (especially nuclear issues) and multilateral issues. He was Australia 's Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva and later Vienna where he was concurrently Ambassador to Austria , Slovenia , Croatia and Bosnia–Herzegovina and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 1993-94. He has written several articles on nuclear arms control and is author of Multilateral Conferences: Purposeful International Negotiation (2004). His main academic interest is in the role of process in determining outcomes. His other interests include African and Aboriginal art and antique prints and maps, in which he also deals.
Samina Yasmeen is Director of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia . She teaches courses on world politics, strategy and diplomacy, and Islam and world politics. Her research interests include the analysis of the domestic and foreign policies of the states of South Asia, confidence building in international relations, women and citizenship, and the place of Islam in the international system. She has recently co-edited Islam and the West: Reflections from Australia (2005), and is currently writing a book on Lashkar-e-Toiba . She holds an MA from The Australian National University, and a PhD from the University of Tasmania .
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