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Dr Peter Sales

MA (Monash), PhD (La Trobe)

Peter Sales grew up in Melbourne, where he eventually taught in suburban high schools and completed an MA on regional issues at Monash University and a Ph D on the history of Australian-American relations at LaTrobe University. He has held various tertiary appointments and was a Fulbright Scholar in Washington, DC, during 1981.

He is presently a Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at the University of Wollongong, where he has taught various courses in US history since the beginnings of time. Most recently, he has also been a Research Associate of the Universidad ng Pilipinas (University of the Philippines) at the Diliman campus in Metro Manila.

Research interests

Peter's rather eclectic research interests include inter alia:

The history of US foreign policy
Insurgency and counterinsurgency
Aspects of regionalism, especially in relation to ASEAN and Asia-Australia affairs
Issues of war and peace in the Philippines and Cambodia
The history and politics of seapower

Selected Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

1989: 'Low Intensity Conflict in Mindanao' in Barry Carr Elaine McKay (editors), Low Intensity Conflict: Theory and Practice in Central America and South-East Asia (Melbourne, LaTrobe University Institute of Latin American Studies Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies), 73-86.
July 1989: "A Little German Colony Here or There!" The U.S.-Australian Clash at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Australasian Journal of American Studies, 22-34.
April 1991: '"Haeremai, Te Waka"! The 1925 United States Fleet Visit to New Zealand and Its Strategic Context', New Zealand Journal of History, 41-58.
1992: 'The Once and Future Insurgency in Northeastern Mindanao' in M Turner, R J May, L R Turner (eds.), Mindanao: Land of Unfulfilled Promise (Quezon City: New Day Publishers), 213-231.
Jul. 1993: Caught in the Crossfire: The Peace Zone Experiment in the Philippines as a Means of Conflict Resolution (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Australian National University; Working Paper 133).
Spring/Summer 1993: 'Back to the Future: Gradual Constriction as a New Phase of Counter-Insurgency in the Philippines?', Journal of Small Wars and Insurgency, 73-88.
Spring/Summer 1993: 'A Reply to Larry Cable', Journal of Small Wars and Insurgency, 93-98.
1994: '"Hell in a Very Small Place": Muslim-Christian Conflict and Human Rights Violations in the Southern Philippines', Papers of the Conference on Religions and Human Dignity (Melbourne, World Conference on Religion and Peace in conjunction with Deakin University).
Spring 1995: 'At the Edge of the Crescent: Islam in the Southern Philippines', Australian Religion Studies Review, 39-55.
May-June 1996; 'Cambodia after UNTAC: The Ambivalent Legacy of a United Nations Peace-Keeping Operation', Pacifica Review: Peace, Security Global Change, 81-92.
Fall 1996: 'War and Peace in the Southern Philippines: An Analysis of Negotiations between the Ramos Administration and the Moro National Liberation Front', Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies , 47-66.
1998: 'The Naval Mission and Australian Security after the First World War' in David Stephens (editor), Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century: The Australian Experience (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998), 40-53.
"War in Mindanao Revisited", Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter (June 2003), 24-25.
"'Sometimes It Takes War to Achieve Peace'! Contextualizing Peacekeeping and Terrorism in the Southern Philippines", Conference on Peacekeeping in the Asia Pacific, University of Wollongong, NSW: September 23-24, 2003.
"Philippines Election Adds to Armed Forces' Difficulties", Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter (May 2004), 32-33.
"Reinventing the Past or Redefining the Future? An assessment of Sanctuaries of Peace in the Southern Philippines", Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Jully 14-16, 2004.
"Analysis: Counterinsurgencey - or Counterproductive?" Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter (July/August 2004), 46-48.
Unimaginable Communities: The Davao Death Squad and Anti-People Terror in the Southern Philippines", School of History and Politics Research Seminar Series, University of Wollongong, NSW: August 6, 2004.

E-mail: psales@uow.edu.au
Phone: (02) 4221 3706

Last reviewed: 26 April, 2007

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