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Extending Frontiers Research Program
Projects:
- Changing Regional and International Structures and Threats
- Performance Models
- Fragile States
- Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism Strategies in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
The Extending Frontiers Research Program deals with emerging issues of governance, police-led peace building, state capacity, and identifying and neutralising new threats resulting from structural changes in the Asia-Pacific and global international security systems.
The Changing Regional and International Structures and Threats Project provides a macro background with research examining “state-centric” security threats that intersect with transnational threats to affect international security alignments. The Fragile States Project further delves into the concept of state capacity; the interaction of domestic and international institutions in shaping forms of governance; and examining the international consequences of state fragility. The Performance Model Project then brings the Research Program to a more micro level in evaluating performance measures for overseas policing missions in fragile states, focusing on the operational aspects of peace operations and capacity-building and its impact on Australia’s security interests and regional stability.
In 2010, workshops were conducted on alliance, arms control, the security-economic nexus, Australia-Korea bilateral security relations, Australia-Japan relations, Australia-China relations, regional security, and the quality of democracy in the Asia-Pacific. Significant fieldwork was also conducted in partnership with the Australian Federal Police, with numerous updates to the Australian Federal Police on performance modelling. Two edited books were published - The War on Terror and the Growth of Executive Power (Routledge) and Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-Building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond (Martinus Nijhoff).
In 2011, work on the MacArthur Asian Security Initiative Project and the Human Security Project continues, with a series of publications expected. Two international workshops are in train on Northeast Asian Security and Southeast Asian Security in Tokyo and Singapore respectively, and will be co-sponsored by CEPS, Griffith Asia Institute, the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore), the University of Tokyo, the US Naval War College and US Army War College. A series of journal articles, including in an A-ranked journal International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and the highly regarded Yonsei University academic journal Korean Observer will be forthcoming. A book on Rethinking International Policing: Beyond the State Toward a De-centred Paradigm is forthcoming.
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