B Laws, B Commerce, B Economics (Hons), M Economic Studies, M Arts, PhD

Research Fellow

Contact details for Dr Stephen McCarthy

Research interests

• Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Relations
• Southeast Asia, Burma

Recent publications

• The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma: Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism (London: Routledge, 2006).
• Prospects for Justice and Stability in Burma, Asian Survey, 46 (3), (May/June 2006), pages 417-436.
• McCarthy, S. (2006), The Black Sheep of the Family: How Burma Defines its Foreign Relations with ASEAN, Regional Outlook Paper Number 6, Griffith Asia Institute.
• Lee Kuan Yew, Dissident Democrat or Pragmatic Prince? chapter in John Kane, Haig Patapan and Benjamin Wong (editors), Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia, (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2007).