John Fitzpatrick Senior Lecturer in Political and International Studies BA, DipEd (Queensland), PhD (ANU) Phone 61 8 8201 2254 Fax 61 8 8201 5111 Email John.Fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au Postal address   School of Political and International Studies Room 303, Faculty of Social Sciences Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001

Academic qualifications

BA, DipEd (Queensland), PhD (ANU)

Areas of expertise

International relations theory; theories of revolution and state-making; settler colonialism; empires and international systems in world history; food and world history; art, empire and revolution; the 'cultural cold war'.

Indicative research publications

"The middle kingdom, the middle sea and the geographical pivot of history", Review: Journal of the Fernand Brandel Center, 15, 3, Summer 1992, pp. 477-522.
"The Soviet breakup and the new Eurasian geopolitics" in R. Leaver and J. Richardson, eds., The Post-Cold War order, Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 1993.  
"European settler colonialism and national security ideologies in Australian history", in Richard Leaver and Dave Cox (eds), Middling, Muddling: Issues in Australian Foreign Policy, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997.
"(Not sailing) to Byzantium: metropolis, hinterland and frontier in the transformation of the Roman empire", in Wendy Mayer and Silke Trzcionka (ed.), Feast, Fast or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium', Byzantina Australiensia, 15, 2005, pp. 101-134.
"The Columbian exchange and the two colonizations of Aotearoa New Zealand", Food, Culture and Society, 10, 2, Summer 2007, pp. 211-238.