Staff Profiles

Ann Capling BA (York), MA (Calgary), PhD (Toronto) Phone: 8344 5194 Email: <annc@unimelb.edu.au> Location: Room 507, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

Background

Ann Capling was born and educated in Canada and completed her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1991.  She joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne in 1993.  She has served in a number of leadership roles in the Melbourne Arts Faculty including Associate Dean, Academic Programs (2001-03); Head of Department of Political Science (2005-06); Director, Centre for Public Policy (2007); and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies (2008- ). 

Ann is currently Vice President of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA), is on the editorial board of Global Governance, and in 2007 was a Member of the Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trade System, whose report can be downloaded from  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/warwickcommission/

Research

• Australian trade policy
• The World Trade Organisation
• International trade and trade agreements
• Global economic governance
• International public policy

Subjects Taught

• Trade Policy and Politics 
• Advanced Policy Design

Supervision

• Global economic governance
• Trade policy and international trade agreements
• Australian foreign economic policy

Recent Publications - 2004-2008

Books

All the way with the USA:  Australia, United States and Free Trade (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005), vi + 96 pages

 
J ournal Articles

AC and Kim Richard Nossal, ’The Region That Never Was (And Never Will Be): The Case of North America’, Review of International Studies, 35, 1 (2009), forthcoming.

 ‘Twenty Years of Australian Engagement with East Asia’, The Pacific Review, 21, 3 (2008), forthcoming.

’Australia’s Trade Policy Dilemmas’, Australian Journal of International Affairs 62, 2 (2008).

‘Preferential trade agreements as instruments of foreign policy: An Australia-Japan free trade agreement and its implications for the Asia Pacific region’, The Pacific Review 21, 1 (2008), 27-43.

AC and Kim Richard Nossal, ‘Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements’, Governance 19, 2 (2006), 151-172. 

AC and Tim Marjoribanks, ‘Connecting Commerce and Culture in Third Sector Organisations: The Case of Australian Football League Clubs’, Third Sector Review 10, 1 (2004), 61-76.

Book Chapters

AC and Tim Marjoribanks, ‘Between Commerce and Culture: Australian Football League Clubs’, in Jo Barraket (ed), Strategic Issues in the Not for Profit Sector (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2008).

‘With Friends Like These:  Anti-Americanism and Australia-US Trade Relations’, in Richard Higgott and Ivona Malbasic (eds), The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism (London: Routledge Press, 2008).

‘Can the Democratic Deficit in Treaty-Making be Overcome?  Parliament and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement’, in Hilary Charlesworth, George Williams, Madelaine Chaim and Devika Howell (eds), The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (Sydney: Federation Press, 2005), 57-81.

AC and Tim Marjoribanks, ‘Transforming Governance: Football Clubs in the Australian Football League’, in Bob Stewart, Rob Hess and Matthew Nicholson (eds), Football Fever: Grassroots (Hawthorn:  Maribyrnong Press 2004), 67-80.

‘Trading ideas: the politics of intellectual property’, in Brian Hocking and Steven McGuire (eds), Trade Politics, 2nd edition (London:  Routledge 2004), 179-93.

Conference papers

‘Australia’s Trade Policy Dilemmas’, Symposium on Australia and Free Trade Agreements, Australian National University, 1-2 November 2007.

‘Legitimacy begins at home: national trade policy processes and global governance’, ‘Pathways to Legitimacy: The Future of Global and Regional Governance, CSGR/GARNET Conference, University of Warwick, 17-19 September 2007.

‘The New Politics of Trade Policy: Complexity, Innovation and Policy Development in the Asia Pacific Region’, International Political Science Association Triennial Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, 9-14 July 2006.

‘Can the Democratic Deficit in Treaty-Making be Overcome?  Parliament and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement’, Expert Workshop on International Law and the Australian Legal System, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and Centre for International Public Law, Australian National University, Canberra, 12 & 13 August 2004.

‘The Rise and Fall of Chapter 11: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms and in the North American and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreements’, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Canberra, 14-16 July 2004 (with Kim Nossal).