Staff Profiles

Peter Shearman Principal Fellow and Associate Professor Phone: +66 (0) 2967 9543; Mobile: 089 063 1577 Email: shearman@unimelb.edu.au Address: 39/790 Raintree, Soi Nichada Thani, Samakee Road Pakret, Nonthaburi 11120, Thailand Please click here to download a curriculum vitae for Dr Shearman

Background

Peter Shearman was born in England, and served in the RAF as a Russian linguist in West Berlin during the 1970s, before switching to an academic career in the 1980s. Educated in the the UK, USA, and the former USSR, he held positions at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and in the Government Department at Essex University before taking up a position at Melbourne in 1990.

Research Grants

Currently recipient of a Large Australian Research Grant (Discovery award) (joint Chief Investigator  with Dr Matthew Sussex, University of Tasmania). A$108,489  over the period 2006-2008, on “Globalization and New Wars: The War in Chechnya”.

Recipient of numerous other smaller grants from: The American Political Science Association, the University of Melbourne, the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) London, the Nuffield Foundation (UK) and the Ford Foundation.

Subjects Taught

At Kansas University:         Comparative Politics (2nd year option)
                                          International Relations (2nd year option)

At Essex University:           British Foreign Policy (1st year compulsory)
                                         Soviet Politics (2nd/final year option)
                                         International Relations (final year/graduate option)
                                         Soviet Foreign Policy (final year/graduate option)
                                         Comparative Politics (final year compulsory)
                                         Graduate Research Seminar (compulsory for MA in Soviet Politics)

At Melbourne:                   Soviet Politics and Society (2nd-3rd year option)
                                         Russian Politics and Society (2nd-3rd year option)
                                         International Relations Theory (2nd-3rd year option)
                                         World Politics in Transition (2nd-3rd year option)
                                         Soviet Foreign Policy (4th year honours and MA option)
                                         Scope, Concepts and Methods (3rd year honours  (compulsory)
                                         Theories and Approaches in International Studies (compulsory core course for MA in Internationa Politics)
                                         The Changing Nature of War (Masters and 4th year hons)

Supervision

Can supervise topics in various aspects of international relations, security studies, foreign policy analysis, and Russian politics.

Recent Publications

Books

Peter Shearman and Matt Sussex (eds), EUROPEAN SECURITY AFTER 9/11, Ashgate, 2004.

Book Chapters

'Introduction' (with Sussex), in EUROPEAN SECURITY AFTER 9/11, pp. 1-10.

'Reconceptualizing Security After 9/11', in EUROPEAN SECURITY AFTER 9/11, pp. 11-27.

'America and Europe After 9/11' (with Sussex), in EUROPEAN SECURITY AFTER 9/11.

'Personality, Politics and Power: Foreign Policy Under Putin', in Vladimir Tikhomirov (ed), Russia After Yeltsin (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001) pp. 222-247.

'Nationalism, the State, and the Collapse of Communism', in Sarah Owen Vandersluis (ed), The State and Identity Construction in International Relations (London: Macmillan, 2000) pp.76-108.

'Russia and NATO Enlargement: The Case Against', in Michael Bowker and Cameron Ross (eds), Russia After the Cold War, (London: Longman, 2000) pp.299-318.

'Foreign Policy Making and Institutions' (with Matthew Sussex), in Neil Robinson (ed), Institutions and Political Change in Russia, (Houndmills: Basingstoke, 2000) pp.151-172.

'After the Fall: Nationalist Extremism in Post-Communist Russia' (with Michael Cox), in Paul Hainsworth (ed), The Politics of the Extreme Right: From the Margins to the Mainstream (London: Pinter, 2000) pp 224-246.

Journal Articles

Peter Shearman, 'Europe and America after the Iraq War', DIALOGUE, vol. 22, no. 2, 2003, pp. 21-29.

'The Sources of Russian Conduct', Review of International Studies, 27 (2001), pp. 249-263.