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Dr John Bruni
BA Hon , MA
(Flinders), PhD (UNSW/ADFA)
Dr Bruni completed his PhD at the prestigious Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), University of New South Wales, Canberra; his doctoral thesis on analysing the patterns of Australia's defence acquisition. Whilst in Canberra, Dr Bruni became a member of the United Services Institute of the Australian Capital Territory (a constituent body of the Royal United Services Institute of Australia) where he was seconded onto the national journal's board of management and assisted the National Secretary in setting up the 1997 RUSI International Seminar “Armed Forces and the Societies which they Serve” .
In 2001, Dr Bruni briefly joined the Department of Politics (as Adjunct Lecturer) before moving onto the Centre for Asian Studies (Visiting Research Fellow). The following year he published his book, On Weapons Decisions: How Australia Chooses to Arm Itself (1963-96) , which was launched by Senator The Hon. Robert Hill, Minister for Defence. In 2002, Dr Bruni was first commissioned to work for Jane's Sentinel Oceania , Surrey , UK . He has been published in the national media, defence media and is widely known as a commentator on terrorism, counter-terrorism and defence issues on national radio and television. In October 2002, Dr Bruni in conjunction with the University of Adelaide's Professional and Continuing Education (PCE), successfully developed University's first forum on Asymmetric Warfare.
Dr Bruni's most recent scholarly publication is the article, “ Japan , Australia and the US – Mini NATO or Shadow Alliance ?” which has been accepted for publication in the esteemed International Relations of the Asia-Pacific: A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations Oxford University. This article is to be published in August 2004.
Lieutenant Colonel David Kilcullen
RA INF
Biography not available.
Dr Felix Patrikeeff
BA (Joint Hons, History/Government), Univ
of Essex ; PhD ( Oxford )
Felix Patrikeeff, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Adelaide, completed degrees at the Universities of Essex and Oxford, later going on to teach at the Universities of Warwick (International Studies), Oxford (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and Sydney (International Politics/International Studies). In the period 1994-1995 he was the Programme Director, Master of International Studies at Kolej Antarabangsa ( International College ) , Penang , Malaysia (a post he was seconded to by the University of Sydney ). In 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Transport & Communications, St Petersburg . In addition, he was twice a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford . He has been the Convenor of the International Studies Programme at the University of Adelaide since 2003, and the President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (SA Branch) since 1998. He specialises in International Relations and Comparative Politics, and has written extensively on themes dealing with the interplay of Eastern and Western political cultures. His latest book on the subject "Russian Politics in Exile" was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2002, and in 2003 contributed to a volume Redefining Stalinism (London: Frank Cass), which brought together work from a number of leading authorities on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of the dictator's death.
Professor Carlyle Thayer
AB Brown, MA Yale, PhD ANU
Carlyle A. Thayer is Professor of Politics and Director of the University of New South Wales Graduate Studies Forum at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA, and concurrently Deakin University 's On
Site Academic Coordinator at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies at the Australian Defence College . Thayer was educated at Brown and Yale universities in the United States and holds a PhD in
International Relations from The Australian National University. He first taught in the Faculty of Military Studies at The Royal Military College-Duntroon (1979-85) before transferring to the academic staff at
the Defence Academy . From 1995-97, he was Head of the School of Politics and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Defence Studies. Thayer was given leave to take up the post of Professor of Southeast Asian Security Studies at the U.S. Defense Department's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii (1999-2001). Professor Thayer is the author or editor of over 300 publications including: Multilateral Institutions in Asia : The ASEAN Regional Forum (2000);Beyond Indochina, Adelphi Paper 297 (1995);A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s (1995); Soviet Relations with India and Vietnam (1992) and War By Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Vietnam (1989).
Dr Arthur Saniotis
BA(Hons), BLitt, PhD
Dr Arthur Saniotis is an anthropologist who has wide research study and experience in the areas of Islam and Muslim Societies. He currently serves as a lecturer in the department of Anthropology at the University of Adelaide . He has written and regularly spoken in public in diverse areas such as how Muslims are constructed as 'Other', Mystical Islam, Islam and the West, the conception of holy war in Islam and terrorism.
Mr Clive Williams MG
BA Hons , MA Hons (Crimonology)
Clive Williams is Director of Terrorism Studies at the Australian National University 's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and is a specialist on terrorism and politically motivated violence. Mr Williams has a career background in Defence Intelligence. He has worked and lectured internationally on terrorism-related issues for more than 20 years, and has run a terrorism course at the ANU since 1996.
Clive Williams is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) and the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO).
Mr David Olney
BA (Hons) Politics, PhD Existential
Philosophy (Candidate)
David Olney is researching Existential philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide . This includes elucidating radical psychological and philosophical positions on the nature of violence in the international system. David's most recent publication is "Reflections From Fragments of A Broken Mirror: Psychological Demands Of The War On Terror."
Professor Mike Innes
MA, PhD, FASSA, FBPsS, FAPS
Degrees in psychology from the Universities of Aberdeen and Birmingham (UK). Taught at the Universities of Birmingham , Edinburgh , Michigan and at Adelaide , James Cook University and Murdoch University in Australia . Former President of the Society of Australasian Society of Social Psychologists and Director of Science of the Australian Psychological Society and Editor of the Australian Journal of Psychology.
Current appointment is Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide . Research interests include the political psychology of voter decision making, the perception of political leadership, the psychology of persuasion and change in beliefs and decision making in groups and organisations.
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