Staff Profiles

Derek McDougall Phone: 8344 7293 Email: d.mcdougall@unimelb.edu.au Office: Medley Building Room 410

Background

Derek McDougall was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA Honours, MA) and Duke University, USA (PhD). He is currently an Associate Professor in Political Science.

Research

The international politics of the Asia-Pacific, with particular reference to peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention, security regionalism, regional security issues and Australia's role.

Subjects Taught

• 2nd/3rd year: Asia-Pacific International Politics
• 2nd/3rd year: Australian Foreign Relations
• 4th year: The Emerging World (Dis)Order
• 5th year: Asia-Pacific: Zone of Conflict or Peace?

Supervision

Australian foreign relations (especially diplomatic and security aspects). Asia-Pacific international politics. Unavailable for new research higher degree supervisions as from 2008.

Recent Publications

Books

Asia Pacific in World Politics (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Australian Security After 9/11: New and Old Agendas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) (co-edited with Peter Shearman)

Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002).

Australian Foreign Relations: Contemporary Perspectives (Addison Wesley Longman, 1998).

Studies in International Relations: The Asia-Pacific, the Nuclear Age, Australia (Sydney: Hodder Headline, 1997).

The International Politics of the New Asia Pacific (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1997).

Book Chapters

'Humanitarian Intervention and Peacekeeping as Issues for Asia-Pacific Security', in James J. Hentz and Morten Bøås(eds), New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 33-53.

'Regional Institutes and Security: Implications of the 1999 East Timor Crisis', in Andrew T.H. Tan and J.D. Kenneth Boutin (eds), Non-traditional Security Issues in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Nanyang Technological University, 2001), pp. 166-96.

'Australia and regionalism in the Asia-Pacific', in J. Grugel and W. Hout (eds), Regionalism across the north-south divide: state strategies and globalization (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 31-45.

Journal Articles

"Australia and the Commonwealth," Round Table, 94 (380), 2005, 339-50.

"Conflicts in the southwest Pacific: the relevance of new security perspectives," Contemporary Security Policy, 25 (2) 2004, pp. 1-21.

"Intervention in Solomon Islands," The Round Table, 93 (374) 2004, pp. 213-223.

"Asia-Pacific Security Regionalism: The Impact of Post-1997 Developments," Contemporary Security Policy 23: pp. 113-34 (2002).

"Australia's Peacekeeping Role in the Post-Cold War Era," Contemporary Southeast Asia 24: pp. 590-608 (2002).

'Australia and Asia-Pacific Security Regionalism: From Hawke and Keating to Howard', Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 23 no. 1 (April 2001), pp. 81-100.