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

Charles is Senior Lecturer in the Politics Program in the School of History and Politics. He holds a BA (Hons 1st class) in History (UNSW) and a PhD in Politics from University of Wollongong. Charles teaches international relations, political economy and political theory. He is a member of the ITAMS research group and Editor of the International Gramsci Journal.

His research interests include:

• States, sovereignty and challenges to state power;
• peacekeeping and interventions in world politics;
• Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Current Grants and Research projects

• The Responsibility to Protect in Oceania (with Prof. A. Goldsmith, Law) – funded by the Australian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect ($120,000
• Hegemony and Sovereignty: Indigenous claims on State Power in Australia and New Zealand (with Dr. Richard Howson, Sociology) — funded by UOW’s URC and CSP

Publications

For recent publications please see the RIS database.

Completed PhD Supervisions and General Topic (Primary or Co-supervisor)

2007. Linda Crowl
Book publishing in the Pacific Islands (with E.P. Wolfers):

2008. Georgia Lysaght
The IMF and Indonesia (with P. Kitley)

2009. Joakim Eidenfalk
Australian Foreign Policy Change toward East Timor and Solomon Islands (with A. Ashbolt)

2010 Natalie Peters Jones
A Decent Liberalism? (with A. Ashbolt)

Current areas of supervision include:

• RAMSI (PhD)
• Australia Aid in PNG (PhD)
• Saharawi refugee politics (MA Research)
• Australian contributions to Global Security (MA Research)

Past Honours Thesis and MA Short Thesis topics include:

• Peacekeeping in West Africa
• The UN in the Congo
• The UN and the Responsibility to Protect in the D. R. Congo
• Human Rights and the UN in East Timor
• Political Economy in Indonesia
• Developmental State Theory
• World Systems theory
• Sanctions in International Law
•  Iran and the USA
• Developed states and Indigenous peoples
• People Trafficking
• China in World Politics
• Australia- Indonesia Relations
• UN responses to the 2003 Iraq crisis