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Ralph Harold Pettman BA Hons (History and Politics – first class), PhD (International Relations) Phone: 8344 5268 Email: rpettman@unimelb.edu.au Rm423, West Wing, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus Click here to download a cv

Background

Ralph Pettman was educated at the University of Adelaide and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at the Australian National University, Princeton University, Tokyo University and the University of Sydney and has held research appointments at the Australian National University, Cambridge University (UK), the Frankfurt Institute for Peace Research, and the New School for Social Research (NY). He has also worked for the Australian Human Rights Commission,
the Australian foreign aid bureau, and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Research

Ralph Pettman’s research interests include:

• international relations theory
• international political economy
• religion and politics, with a particular interest in Islam
• the foreign policy of Japan

He is the founder of the first electronic journal on world affairs in the world: AntePodium; co-editor of a monograph series on constructivism for M.E.Sharpe, Inc.; a member of the editorial board of advisers of Global Change, Peace and Security; a member of the international advisory board of the European Journal of International Relations; and a member of the advisory boards of International Politics and Religion; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; and the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research

Subjects Taught

• International Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Europe from Asian perspectives
• Globalisation
• Democratisation on a world scale
• International relations: key questions
  

Supervision

• International relations theory
• International relations in practice
• East and Southeast Asian relations
• International political economy
• Religion and international politics

Recent publications: 2004-2008

Books

2008 Intending the World: a phenomenology of international affairs (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne)

2005 New Zealand in a Globalising World, ed. (Victoria University Press, Wellington)

Reason, Culture, Religion. The Metaphysics of World Politics Palgrave/St.Martin’s, New York)

Articles:

“Conceptual Foundations for a New Internationalism” Peace and Policy (published annually for the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research by Rutgers University) V.12 (2007) pp.25-38

“Taoism and the Concept of Global Security”, International Relations in the Asia-Pacific (the journal of the Japanese Association of International Relations) V.5 no.1 (2005) pp.59-83

“Human Security as Global Security: reconceptualising strategic studies” Cambridge Review of International Affairs V.18 no.1 (April 2005) pp.137-150

“Anti-Globalization Discourses in Asia” in Catherine Eschle (ed.) Critical Theories, World Politics and ‘the Anti-Globalization Movement’: the politics of global resistance (Routledge, London, 2005)

“A Phenomenology of Human Rights” in Helen Greatrex and Paul Morris (eds.) Human Rights Research (Victoria Human Rights Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

“Sacral Alternatives to World Affairs” in Joseph Bulbulia and Paul Morris (eds.) What is Religion For? (New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion, Wellington, 2004)