UNSW@ADFA - Dr Clinton Fernandes - School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Clinton Fernandes

Associate Professor
Politics Program

Phone: +61 2 6268 8847
Fax: +61 2 6268 8879
Email: c.fernandes@adfa.edu.au

Professional Background

2012 International Fact-Finding Mission on Elections in Malaysia
2011 Associate Professor, UNSW Canberra
2006 Senior Lecturer, UNSW Canberra
2005 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
2005 PhD, Deakin University (A Transformational Analysis of the National Interest)

Research Interests

My principal research area is 'International Relations and Strategy'. I focus on the 'National Interest' in Australia's external relations. A sample of my work is here.

Cognitive Science: the evolution of the human language faculty.

Publications

Electronic

Books

2011 The Independence of East Timor: Multidimensional perspectives ? Occupation, Resistance and International Political Activism, Sussex Academic Press, UK.
2008 Hotspot Histories: Asia and Oceania (editor), Greenwood Publications, Westport, Connecticut.
2006 Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia and the future of West Papua, Scribe Publications, Melbourne.
2004 Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor, Scribe Publications, Melbourne.

Refereed chapters

2010 'An International Tribunal for East Timor', in Understanding Timor-Leste, Michael Leach, Nuno Canas Mendes, Antero B. da Silva, Alarico da Costa Ximenes and Bob Boughton (eds), Swinburne Press, Hawthorn.
2010 'The War in East Timor, 1975-1999', in The Development of Institutions of Human Rights: A Comparative Study, Lilian Barria and Steven Roper (eds), Palgrave MacMillan.
2010 'Two Tales of Timor', in Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, Craig Stockings (ed), UNSW Press, Sydney.
2009 'The continuity of Australian foreign policy towards East Timor', in Timor-Leste: Issues of Justice and Human Rights, William Binchy and Aoife Nolan (eds.), Clarus Press, Dublin.
2008 'Indonesia: Internal Conflict in Aceh and West Papua' (with Damien Kingsbury), in Hotspot Histories: Asia and Oceania, Greenwood Publications, Westport, Connecticut.
2008 'East Timor: Colonialism, Independence and Beyond', pp 24-29 in Hotspot Histories: Asia and Oceania, Greenwood Publications, Westport, Connecticut.
2008 'The Philippines', in Hotspot Histories: Asia and Oceania, Greenwood Publications, Westport, Connecticut.
2005 'Terrorism in archipelagic Southeast Asia, in Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Kingsbury D. (ed), Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne.
2005 'East Timor in Transition: An Australian policy challenge', in Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Kingsbury D. (ed), Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne.

Encyclopaedia Entries

2009 'East Timor', ABC-CLIO World Geography database.

Journal articles

2008 'The Road to InterFET: Bringing the Politics Back In', Security Challenges, Vol 4, No 3, Spring 2008, pp 83-98.
2006 'Strategic Bombing and the myth of airpower as strategy', in Journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia.
2006 'Conditions for torture', in Public Administration Today (Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration), Issue 115, January-March 2006.

Scholarly Reviews

Alawi D. Kayal, The Control of Oil, London, Kegan Paul, 2002. Reviewed in the Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 38, No 2, July 2003.

Published Conference Papers

2010 Complicity and Resistance: Scholarship and the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor. Paper presented to the International Studies Association conference, New Orleans, USA, 18th February 2010. Published at: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/isa/isa10/
2009 Australia and Indonesia: Past, Present and Future. Paper presented to the International Studies Association conference, New York City, USA, 16th February 2009. Published at: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/isa/isa09/
2008 Some Bridges Can?t Be Built: International Criminal Law and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Paper presented to the International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, USA, 28th March 2008. Published at: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/isa/isa08/
2006 West Papua and the Australia-Indonesia relationship. Paper presented to the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Annual Conference, 20 October 2006. Published in Proceedings of the ISAA Annual Conference, 2006.

Parliamentary Submissions

2009, Submission to the Senate Economics Committee, Inquiry into Foreign Investment by State-Owned Entities, Submission 27, Report released 17th September 2009.
2009, Supplementary Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Inquiry into Human Rights Mechanisms and the Asia-Pacific, Submission 31.
2009, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Inquiry into Human Rights Mechanisms and the Asia-Pacific, Submission 2.
2007, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea, Submission 2 (with Dr Scott Burchill), Report 85, Treaties tabled on 6, 7 and 27 February 2007.
2006, Supplementary Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Framework for Security Cooperation, Supplementary Submission 13.3, Report 84, Treaty tabled on 6 December 2006.
2006, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Framework for Security Cooperation, Submission 31, Report 84, Treaty tabled on 6 December 2006.

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Courses Taught

The Politics of Australian Security (undergrad)
Introduction to Strategic Studies (undergrad)
Modern Political Ideologies (undergrad)
Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia (undergrad)
Contemporary Strategy (postgrad)
The Role of Modern Intelligence (postgrad)

Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision

Australian Foreign Policy
Australia-Indonesia relations
Australia-East Timor relations