Dr Melissa Curley

	Academic Position:	Lecturer in International Relations
	Administrative Positions:	Coordinator postgraduate Applied Fieldwork Experience Coordinator - BA Major in International Relations (Sem 2, 2012)
	Qualifications:	PhD, BA (Hons)
	Office: Telephone: Fax: Email:	540, General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3346 9054 +61 7 3365 1388 m.curley@uq.edu.au

Research Expertise

• International Security (non-traditional security discourse)
• Asian Politics and Security
• State-Civil Society Relations

Teaching Interests

Background

Melissa Curley’s work in International Relations has focussed on non-traditional and human security discourse within security studies, state-civil society-community relations and East Asian regional security. Her research on non-traditional and human security discourse has focussed on its application and relevance to the East Asian region. She has collaborated extensively with regional scholars on its application and relevance to the East Asian region, and has published on poverty as a non-traditional security issue (UNU Press 2004), implications of disease and pandemics (AJIA 2004), and the securitisation of illegal migration (RoutledgeCurzon 2007). Her research interest in state-civil society-community relations and the evolution of civil society in East Asia encompasses state-civil society relations in individual countries, political systems and their impact on the growth/retardation of civil society, the role of NGOs (Asian Perspective 2002), ‘regional’ civil society in East Asia, and comparative perspectives of state-civil society relations in market socialist economies of China, Vietnam and Laos. A grant from the Hang Seng Education Foundation (Hong Kong) has funded a pilot study on the role of the NGO sector in Cambodia. Dr Curley’s other research has engaged with the East Asian security environment, regionalism (RoutledgeCurzon 2007), and China’s changing relations with Southeast Asia and ASEAN (Guest Editor, Special ed. of Asian Perspective 2002), also drawing upon five years of policy and consultancy experience in Hong Kong.

Selected Publications

Books:

• Curley, Melissa and Sui-lun Wong, eds. 2008. Security and Migration in Asia: The Dynamics of Securitisation. London & New York: Routledge.
• Curley, Melissa and Nicholas Thomas, eds. 2007. Advancing East Asian Regionalism. London: Routledge.

Selected Journal Articles:

• Curley, Melissa, Davies, Sara, Devetak, Richard and Kaempf, Seb. 2009. Twentieth anniversary special issue. International relations: An oceanic perspective. Global Change, Peace and Security, 21 1: 1-2.
• Curley, Melissa and Nick Thomas. 2004. ‘Human Security and Public Health in Southeast Asia: The SARS Outbreak’. Australian Journal of International Affairs 58(1): 17-32.

 Book Chapters:

• Curley, Melissa G. and Wong, Sui-lun. 2008). Conclusion: Undocumented migration and the state/human security nexus in Asia. In Melissa Curle and Sui-lun Wong (Ed.), Security and Migration in Asia: The Dynamics of Securitisation (pp. 179-184) London & New York: Routledge.
• Curley, Melissa and Qingxin Wang. 2004. ‘Poverty and Non-Traditional Security: Experiences of China’s Partnership with Multilateral Donor Institutions on Poverty Alleviation’. In Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse and Agenda: Political, Social and Environmental Perspectives, eds. Ramesh Thakur and Edward Newman. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
• Curley, Melissa. 2002. ‘NGOs in China: The Role of International Organizations and South-South Cooperation’, in M. G. Curley (ed.), Special Edition of Asian Perspectives on China-ASEAN Relations, Portland State University, US/Kyungnam University, Seoul, South Korea, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 171-200. 

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