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Richard Leaver

Reader in International Relations and Associate Professor

BA (Adelaide), MPhil (Murdoch)

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61 8 8201 2376

Fax

61 8 8201 5111

Email

Richard.Leaver@flinders.edu.au

Postal address  

School of Political and International Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University GPO Box 2100 ADELAIDE SA 5001

Areas of expertise

International Political Economy, with special reference to the issues of oil, money and trade, Asia-Pacific political economy, history and theory of International Relations, Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation, Australian foreign policy.

Indicative research publications

'Australia and Asia-Pacific energy security: the rhymes of history', in Michael Wesley (ed.), Energy Security in Asia, Routledge, New York, 2007.

'Everything new is old again? 'the new dispensation' and new security in Japan-Australia relations', in Derek McDougall and Peter Shearman (eds.), Australian Security After 9/11: New and Old Agendas, Ashgate, London, 2005.

'The redeeming of unfree trade agreements: France, Taiwan, India and Australian uranium safeguards', Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies, 8, 2007.

'The Failing NPT: The Case for Institutional Reform', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59(4), 2005.

‘Moral (and other) hazards: the IMF and the systemic Asian crisis’, in Richard Robison, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya and Hyuk-Rae Kim (eds.), Politics and Markets in the Wake of theAsian Crisis, Routledge, London, 2000

‘International Political Economy and the Changing World Order: Evolution or Involution?’, in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.), Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, 1st edition, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1994.

Middling, Meddling, Muddling: Issues in Australian Foreign Policy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997 (co-edited, with Dave Cox).

Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s: Cooperation or Conflict?, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO., 1993 (co-edited, with Richard Higgott and John Ravenhill).

Charting The Post-Cold War Order, Westview Press, Boulder, CO., 1993 (co-edited, with James L. Richardson).