Dr Matt McDonald

Academic Position:
Senior Lecturer International
Relations
Administrative Positions:
Chair - External Engagement
Committee
Deputy Chair - School Staff 
Meeting
Qualifications:
PhD, MA, BA
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Telephone:
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Email:
564, General Purpose North (39A)
+61 7 3365 2655
+61 7 3365 1388 
matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au

Research Expertise

  • International Relations Theory
  • International Security
  • Australian Foreign and Security policy

Teaching Interests

POLS2201 Australian Foreign Policy
POLS2209 Global Security
POLS7225 Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Statecraft

Background

Matt McDonald is Senior Lecturer in International Relations. He completed his undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees at UQ. He has previously been Lecturer in International Relations at UNSW and the University of Birmingham (UK), Associate Professor in International Security at the University of Warwick (UK), and a Visiting Fellow at ANU. His research interests are in the area of international security and foreign policy. In particular, his research focuses on critical theoretical approaches to security and their application to environmental change; Australian foreign and security policy; the 'war on terror'; and security dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. He has published on these themes in a range of journals and edited texts. He is the author of Security, the Environment and Emancipation (Routledge, 2011) and editor (with Anthony Burke) of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester UP, 2007). He is currently completing research projects on the politics of climate change in Australia, the politics of internationalism in foreign policy, and the relationship between ethics and international security. 

Research Projects

Selected Publications

Books (Authored)
  • Security, the Environment and Emancipation: Contestation over Environmental Change (Routledge, New Security Studies series: 2011). 
Books (Edited)
  • (with Anthony Burke), Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007).
Refereed Journal Articles
  • (with Christopher S. Browning), ‘The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and the Politics of Security’, European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming).  Available through Online First at: http://ejt.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
  • ‘Deliberation and Resecuritization: Australia, Asylum-Seekers and the Normative Limits of the Copenhagen School’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 46: 2 (2011), pp.281-295.
  • Lest we Forget: The Politics of Memory and Australian Military Intervention& International Political Sociology, 4:3 (2010), pp.287-302.
  • (with Matt Merefield), 'How was Howard's War Possible? Winning the War of Position over Iraq', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64:2 (2010), pp.186-204.
  • 'Securitization and the Construction of Security', European Journal of International Relations, 14:4 (2008), pp.563-87.
  • 'Emancipation and Critical Terrorism Studies', European Political Science, 6:3 (2007), pp.252-9.
  • (with Katharine Gelber) ‘Ethics and Exclusion: Representations of Sovereignty in Australia’s Approach to Asylum-Seekers’, Review of International Studies, 32:2 (2006), pp.269-89.
  • ‘Constructing Insecurity: Australian Security Discourse and Policy Post-2001’, International Relations, 19:3 (2005), pp. 297-320.
  • ‘Be Alarmed? Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Kit and the Politics of Security’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2 (2005), pp. 171-89.
  • ‘Fair Weather Friend? Australia’s Approach to Global Climate Change’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51:2 (2005), pp. 216-34.
  • (with Alex J. Bellamy), ‘Securing International Society: Towards an English School Discourse of Security’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39:2 (2004), pp.307-30.
  • ‘Human Security and the Construction of Security’, Global Society, 16:3 (2002), pp. 277-95.
Book Chapters
  • ‘Australia and Global Climate Change’, in Smith, Hadfield and Dunne (eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2012).
  • ‘The Environment and Global Security', in Bilgin and Williams (eds.), Global Security and International Political Economy (UNESCO EOLSS, 2010).
  • (with Jack Holland), 'Australian Identity, Interventionism and the War on Terror', in Siniver (ed.), International Terrorism Post- 9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses (Routledge, 2010).
  • 'Emancipation and Critical Terrorism Studies', in Jackson, Smyth and Gunning (eds.), Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda (Routledge, 2009).
  • 'Constructivism', in Williams (ed.), Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2008).
  • 'Global Security after September 11, 2001', in Carter, Jordan and Watson (eds.), Security: Sociology and Social Worlds (Manchester UP, 2008).
  • 'US Hegemony, the War on Terror and the Asia-Pacific', in Burke and McDonald (eds.), Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester UP, 2007)
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