B Arts (Hons), PhD International Relations

Director, Griffith Asia Institute

Contact details for Professor Michael Wesley

Research interests

• Australian foreign policy
• Transnational security threats and state responses
• Asia Pacific regional institutions
• International security

Recent publications

Refereed journal articles

• "The State of the Art on the Art of Statebuilding", Global Governance, Vol. 14, No. 2, April-June 2008 (forthcoming).
  
• "Towards a Realist Ethics of Intervention", Ethics and International Affairs, Volume 19, Number 2, 2005.
• "It's Time to Scrap the NPT", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 59, Number 2, 2005.
• "Globalisation and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 56, Number 2, July 2002.
• "Perspectives on Australian Foreign Policy, 2001", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 56, Number 1, April 2002.
• "Australia's International Relations and the (IR)relevance of Theory" Review Essay, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 55, Number 4, December 2001.
• "APEC's Mid-Life Crisis? The Rise and Fall of Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation", Pacific Affairs, Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2001.
• "Wild Colonial Ploys: Currents of Thought in Australian Foreign Policy Making" Australian Journal of Political Science, Volume 35, Number 1, April 2000, pages 9-26 (with Tony Warren).
• "Globalisation and Australian Nationalism" in Leo Suryadinata (editor) Nationalism and Globalisation: West and East, Singapore: ISEAS, 2000.
• "The Cambodian Waltz: The Khmer Rouge and United Nations Intervention" in Sorpong Peou (editor) Cambodia: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Politics, London: Ashgate, 2000.

Books

• Power Plays: Energy and Australia's Security, Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2007.
• The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia, 1996-2006, (Sydney: ABC Books 1997).
• Making Australian Foreign Policy, Second Edition, (expanded and updated), (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007) (with Allan Gyngell).
• The Other Special Relationship: United States-Australia Relations at the Start of the Twenty-First Century, (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2007) (with Jeffrey D. McCausland, Douglas T Stuart and William T. Tow) (an edited collection).
  
• Energy Security in Asia, (London: Routledge Curzon, 2007) (an edited collection).
  
• Making Australian Foreign Policy, (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003) (with Allan Gyngell).
• Regional Organisations of the Asia-Pacific: Exploring Institutional Change, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) (an edited collection).
• Casualities of the New World Order: The Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
  

Book chapters

• "Australia-China" in Brendan Taylor (ed) Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux?, London: Routledge, 2007.
• "The Trilateral Strategic Dialogue's Institutional Politics" in William T. Tow, Mark J. Thomson, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Satu P. Limaye (eds) Asia Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle, London: Routledge, 2007.
• "Jealous Suitors: Sino-Japanese Competitive Regionalism and the Future of East Asia", in Michael Heazle and Nick Knight (eds) China-Japan Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Creating a Future Past?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.
• "The Consequences of Anti-Amercianism: Does it Matter?" in Brendon O'Connor and Martin Griffiths (eds) Anti-Americanism: History, Causes and Themes, Vol. 4: Blame it on Bush? Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing, 2007.
• "Rebuilding Engagement: Australia and Southeast Asia" in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (eds) Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• "The New Interventionism and the Invasion of Iraq" in Michael Heazle and Iyanatul Islam (eds), Beyond the Iraq War: The Promises, Pitfalls, and Perils of External Interventionism, London: Edward Elgar, 2006.
  
• "The Dogs That Didn't Bark: The Bush Administration and East Asian Regionalism" in Mark Beeson (editor), The Bush Doctrine and the Asia Pacific, London: Routledge, 2006.
• "Analytical Framework" in Jiro Okamoto (editor), Trade Liberalisation and APEC, London: Routledge, 2004 (with Jiro Okamoto).
• "Australia: The Loss of Regional Vision" in Jiro Okamoto (editor), Trade Liberalisation and APEC, London: Routledge, 2004.
• "Mediating the Global Order: The Past and Future of Asia-Pacific Regional Organisations" in David W Lovell (editor) Asia Pacific Security: Policy Challenges, Singapore: ISEAS, 2003.
• "Setting and Securing Australia's National Interests: National Interest as Economic Prosperity" in Ian Marsh (editor) Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002.
• "Setting and Securing Australia's National Interests: The National Interest as Security" in Ian Marsh (editor) Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002.
• "Setting and Securing Australia's National Interests: The National Interest as Values" in Ian Marsh (editor) Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002 .
• "Australia and the Asian Crisis" in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (editors) The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• "International Relations: The Interweaving of Political and Economic Security" in Michael Keating and Glyn Davis (editor), The Future of Governance: Policy Choices, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2000 (with Allan Gyngell).

Invited conference papers, occasional lectures and workshops

• "Reforms to Australia's Intelligence Agencies", Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Annual Conference, Ottawa, 26 October 2006.
• "Can Australia Use its Energy Resources for Strategic Leverage?", Symposium sponsored by the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Australian Homeland Security Centre, Canberra, 11 October 2006.
• "Australia, Japan and East Asian Regionalism", Conference Celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Japan-Australia Friendship Agreement, Australian Studies Association of Japan, Nagoya, 30 September 2006.
• "Energy Security", Conference on re-envisioning Asia Pacific Security: A Regional-Global Nexus?, Australian National University, 2-3 August 2006.
  
• "Regional Challenges for Trilateral Co-operation", Conference on US-Japan-Australia Relations, Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, 8-9 February 2005.
• "Analysing Transnational Intelligence", Conference on New Frontiers of Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, Diverse Perspectives and New Communities, Rome, 30-31 March 2004-09-28.
• "East Asia in 2020", National Intelligence Council Workshop on Global Futures, Washington D.C., 7-8 December 2003.
• "Mediating the Global Order: The Past and Future of Asia Pacific Regional Organisations", Australian Defence Force Academy Conference, The Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges for the Coming Decade, Canberra, 22-23 August 2001.
• "The Australian-American Alliance and the Cultures of Liberalism" Australia-United States Alliance 50th Anniversary Conference, To Strengthen the Fabric of Peace? The Australia-US Alliance in an East Asian Context University of Sydney, 29-30 June 2001.
• "Mediating the Global Order: The Past and Future of Asia Pacific Regional Organisations", Australian Defence Force Academy Conference, The Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges for the Coming Decade, Canberra, 22-23 August 2001.
• "Between Trauma and Triumphalism: Ends and Beginnings in Pacific Asia", Interdisciplinary Conference on Ends and Beginnings in History, Goethe Institute, Sydney, 15 July 2000.
• "The Regional Security Environment and China’s Incentives for Military Innovation", Workshop on Military Innovation in China, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 12 July 2000.
• "Commentary from an Asia-Pacific Perspective on The OSCE and Cooperative Security in Europe - An Overview", CSCAP Workshop on Cooperative Security in Europe - The OSCE Experience, Singapore, 1 June 2000.
• "Australia and the Asian Crisis", Australian Institute of International Affairs Workshop, Braidwood, 6-7 May 2000.
• "The Challenges of China: Australian Perceptions and Reactions", National Defense University Symposium on The Challenges of China, Washington, D.C., 7-8 March 2000.
• "The Politics of Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation in Australia", IDE-APEC Study Centre-Japan External Trade Organisation Symposium on the Politics of EVSL, 26-28 January 2000.

Discussion papers / commissioned reports

• "Australia and Energy Security", Report Commissioned by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, July 2007.
• "The Evolution of International Approaches to State Building", Report Commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute, London, 2006.
  
• "Australia and APEC Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation", Report prepared for the Japan External Trade Organisation, 2000.
• "The New Regionalism in East Asia", Discussion Paper for the 2000 Asia Leaders' Forum, Beijing, April 2000, Commissioned by the Asia-Australia Institute.
• "The Challenges of China: Australian Perceptions and Reactions", Washington, D.C: National Defense University Working Paper, March 2000.
• "The Politics of Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation in Australia", IDE-APEC Study Centre Working Paper Series 2000, Japan External Trade Organisation, February 2000 .