Academic Position: Administrative Position:    Qualifications:              Room: Building: Telephone:       Fax: Email:	Lecturer in International Relations   BA (Hons) Monash University, MA, PhD Cornell University.   564 General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 2655 +61 7 3365 1388 a.phillips3@uq.edu.au

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Background:

Andrew Phillips’ main research interests focus broadly on the evolution of the global state system from 1500 to the present, and concentrate specifically on the challenges that ‘new’ security threats such as religiously motivated terrorism, the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and state failure pose to the contemporary global state system. Andrew’s Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘Soldiers of God – War, Faith, Empire, and the Transformation of International Orders from Calvin to Al Qaeda’, examined religious radicalism as a challenge both to historic international orders in sixteenth century Europe and nineteenth century East Asia, and also to the contemporary international system in the form of the jihadist terrorist threat to world order. He has published works on constructivism as a theoretical approach to the study of international relations, and has also published a co-authored article on the evolving relationship between religion, tribalism, and nationalism in post-Soviet Central Asia. Andrew’s two current research projects focus respectively on the future of empire as an institution in world politics, and on accounting for Al Qaeda’s strategic defeat in the context of the ongoing war in Iraq. Prior to undertaking his post-graduate studies in international relations, Andrew also worked as a policy advisor in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

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