Dr Charles Hawksley

Dr Charles Hawksley
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, School of History and Politics

BA (Hons), UNSW (History)
PhD, University of Wollongong (Politics)

Charles Hawksley lectures in the Masters Program in International Relations and in the undergraduate Program in Politics. He also teaches into the Programs coordinated by the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention: the Master of Transnational Crime Prevention, and the Master of Prosecutions.

His research interests include:

• peacekeeping and other interventions in ‘failed states’ and their effects on state sovereignty;
• colonialism and imperialism in all their forms;
• development politics in the Pacific and Asia;
• the historical and contemporary relationship between war and the state.

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

•  ‘Hegemony, Education and Subalternity in Colonial Papua New Guinea’ in R. Howson and K. Smith eds, Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion (forthcoming Routledge February 2008)
•  ‘Constructing Hegemony: Colonial Rule and Colonial Legitimacy in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea’, Rethinking Marxism, 19 (2) pp. 195-207.

2006

• ‘Papua New Guinea at Thirty: Late decolonisation and the political economy of nation building’, Third World Quarterly, 27 (1) 2006, pp. 161-174.
• ‘email money scams: state responses to one type of cyber crime’, 2nd Oceanic Conference on International Studies, 5-7 July Melbourne 2006; 25 pages.

2005

• ‘The Intervention you have when you’re not having an intervention’: Australia, PNG and the Enhanced Cooperation Program, Social Alternatives 24 (3) 2005, pp. 34-39.
• ‘Sovereignty and intervention in the Western Pacific’, Refereed paper for the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2005.

2004

• “The Enhanced Cooperation Program between Australia and PNG: ‘the intervention you have when you’re not having an intervention?’”, Refereed paper for the 1st Oceanic International Studies Conference, Australian National University, 14-16 July 2004.
• Iredale, R., Turpin, T., Hawksley, C. M., Go, S., Kanchai, S. & Kaung, Y. 2004, 'Migration research and migration policy making: a study of Australia, the Philippines, and Thailand', International Social Science Journal ,No. 179, pp. 115-134.
• ‘The 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean: a straight drive to regional integration?’, in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol XXVI: No1, December 2004, pp.  246-261.
• ‘Conceptualising Imperialism in the 21st Century’, Refereed paper for the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, September 29-October 1, University of Adelaide, 2004.

Selected Other Writing

• Review of Kenneth J. Serbin, Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 2000, in Journal of Religious History, 29 (2) pp. 203-204, 2005.
• Review of Ninan Koshy, The War on Terror, LeftWord, New Delhi, 2003, in Australian Journal of Political Science, March 2004, p. 220.
• R. Iredale, C. Hawksley and S. Castles (eds), Migration in the Asia Pacific: Population, Settlement and Citizenship Issues, Edward Elgar Publishing Company Ltd, Aldershot, UK, 2003.
• R. Iredale, T. Turpin, C. Hawksley et. al., Migration Research and Policy Landscape: Case Studies of Australia, the Philippines and Thailand, APMRN Working Paper No. 9, UNESCO-MOST/APMRN, University of Wollongong, 2002.
• ‘The MV Tampa, the ‘Pacific Solution’ and the Federal Election in Australia’, APMRN Update No. 11, Oct-Nov 2001, pp. 3-4.

email charlesh@uow.edu.au
Phone: 4221 3087