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Dr Charles Hawksley

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

Location: 19:2032
Email: charlesh@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4221 3087

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 teaches politics and international relations and is a founding member of Citizens States and Power, a Research Priority Area in the Faculty of Arts. 

His research interests include:

• peacekeeping and interventions in world politics;
• sovereignty and challenges to state power;
• colonialism and imperialism;
• Australia and the Pacific Islands;

Research projects

Hegemony and Sovereignty: Indigenous claims on State Power in Australia and New Zealand. This is a URC and CSP funded project. (with Dr. Richard Howson, Sociology Program).

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Book Chapters

• 2008 'Hegemony, Education and Subalternity in Colonial Papua New Guinea', Howson and Smith eds, Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion, Rutledge, New York, pp. 142-158.
• 2009 'Australian Interventions and Occupations', De Mattos ed. Occupying the Other Cambridge Scholars Press, (forthcoming)
• 2009 'email money scams: state responses to one type of cyber crime', in A. Begum ed. Email Spam and Law, Amicus Law Books, ICFAI University Press) (forthcoming).

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2009, 'Australia's Aid Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands; change and continuity in middle power foreign policy', Global Change Peace and Security, (forthcoming 21 (1) February) 2007, 'Constucting hegemony: colonial rule and colonial legitimacy in the highlands of Papua New Guinea', Rethinking Marxism, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 195-207.
• 2006, 'Papua New Guinea at Thirty: late decolonisation and the political economy of nation-building', Third World Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 161-173.
• 2005, 'The Intervention You Have When You're Not Having An intervention': Australia, PNG and the Enhanced Cooperation Program', Social Alternatives, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 34-39.
• 2004, 'The 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean: a straight drive to regional integration?', Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, pp. 246-261.

Edited Journals

• 2007, Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture & society: Hegemony: Explorations into Consensus, Coercion, and Culture, vol. 19 (2),

Book reviews

• 2009 Capital and Class, Eva Gollinger, 'Bush v Chavez' (forthcoming)
• 2005, Journal of Religious History, 'Review - Kenneth J. Serbin, Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil', vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 203-204.
• 2004 Australian Journal of Political Science, 'Book review: Ninan Koshy The War on Terror : Reordering the World', pp. 220.

Refereed Conference Papers

• 2008, 'Rudd's Way: ALP policies toward the South Pacific', Third Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Queensland July 2-4.
• 2006, 'email money scams: state responses to one type of cyber crime', Second Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
• 2004, 'The Enhanced Cooperation program between Australia and PNG: The intervention you have when you're not having an intervention'?', The 1st Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 25.
• 2005, 'Sovereignty and Intervention in the Western Pacific', Conference Proceedings: Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2005, Australasian Political Studies Association, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1-18.
• 2004, 'Conceptualising Imperialism in the 21st Century', APSA Refereed Papers, Australian Political Studies Association, Adelaide, pp. 1-28.

Other writing

• Case studies in The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, A. Cullen and S. Murray (eds), South Melbourne Oxford University Press
• 2007. Case 16: South Pacific Diplomacy (with E. P. Wolfers) pp. 57-59.
• 2007 and 2008 Case 26: Regional Cooperation in the Pacific: the Pacific Islands Forum pp.  94-96.
• 2007 and 2008 Case 34: The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) pp. 126-128.