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Since its founding, the primary purpose of the Bell School has been grounded in our scholars' ability to conduct and publish academically rigorous, conceptually innovative, world-leading research, and use that knowledge to educate, train, and engage with multiple stakeholders.
We have demonstrated commitment to high quality, multi-disciplinary, and impactful research. We have maintained a strong record of research partnerships with other universities, government agencies, and international organisations. And we have collaborated and helped build capacity with regional partners and local communities.
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Hard New World explores Australia’s future in a changing global order, examining shifting power dynamics, the decline of US influence in Asia, and the strategic choices ahead.
The Top Brass examines the leadership of Australia’s senior WWII commanders, revealing the challenges, rivalries and decisions that shaped the nation’s war effort.
Dr Nikolay Murashkin examines Japan's underappreciated role in post-Soviet Central Asia, showing its Silk Road diplomacy and infrastructure pre-dated China's Belt and Road, matching it in scale.
Jokowi's 2014 rise promised clean, populist government. A decade later, he left a fragile economy and hollow democracy, an authoritarian revival of co-optation and repression, at high democratic cost.
Dr Cecilia Jacob traces the transformation of international accountability for mass atrocities, drawing on fieldwork and case studies to theorise a new global human protection order.
Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson trace twelve convicted Japanese war criminals from the Pacific War, plus one who escaped justice, examining how ordinary people came to commit wartime atrocities.
A/Prof Sonia Palmieri examines gender sensitivity in Fiji's Parliament, using a case study to assess institutional commitment, capacity, & will amid international efforts toward reform in the Pacific.
Nick Chan argues Malaysia's 'Islamised' counter-terrorism reflects ontological-security seeking, postcolonial status & state-building, filling a gap in Western-centric Global War on Terror literature.
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