Dr Sara Davies

BA (Hons), PhD

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Governance and Public Policy

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Publications

Books

  • Legitimising Rejection: International Refugee Law in Southeast Asia, Refugees and Human Rights Series Volume 13 (Martinus Nijhoff, 2008).
  • Global Health Issues: The Politics of Health. Contract with Polity Press. Forthcoming 2009.

Articles

  • ‘Truly International Refugee Law? Or another East/West Divide?’, Social Alternatives, Volume 21, No 4, Spring 2002.
  • ‘International Refugee Law – Can New Problems be Met with Old Solutions?’, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 8, No 3, Autumn 2004.
  • ‘Saving Refugees or Saving Borders: Southeast Asian States and the Indochinese Refugee Crisis, 1975-79’, Global Change, Peace and Security, Volume 18, No 1, 2006.
  • ‘The Asian Rejection? International Refugee Law in Southeast Asia’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 52, Issue 4, 2006.
  • ‘Securitizing Infectious Disease’, International Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 2, 2008.
  • ‘Did the UNHCR Succeed or Fail?  Seeking an Answer to the 1967 Protocol’, International Journal of Refugee Law. Volume 19, Issue 4, 2008.
  • ‘Why the 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action should not be Applauded’, International Relations of the Asia Pacific. Volume 8, Issue 2, 2008.

Edited books

  • Alexander Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara Davies and Richard Devetak (eds.), Security and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2007).
  • Roderic Broadhurst and Sara Davies (eds.), Policing in Context (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008).

Chapters

  • ‘Reconceptualising the Refugee in Asia’, in Anthony Burke and Matthew McDonald (eds.), Critical Security Studies in Asia (Manchester University Press, 2007).
  • ‘People Movement and Refugees in Australia’, in Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (ed.), An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
  • ‘International law and the state of exception’, in Alexander Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara Davies and Richard Devetak (ed.), Security and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2007).
  • ‘Policing Transnational Crime’, in Roderic Broadhurst and Sara Davies (eds.), Policing in Context (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Editorship

  • Co-Editor in Chief of GR2P: Global Responsibility to Protect, Martinus Nijhoff.
  • Quarterly issue start in 2009.
  • Co-Editor of Special Issue on ‘International Relations in Australia: OCIS and Beyond’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 57, Issue 3, 2009.
  • Co-Editor of Special Issue on ‘International Relations from Oceania’, Global Peace, Change and Security, Issue 3, 2009.

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