Dr David W. Lovell
Professor
Politics Program
Head of School
Phone: +61 2 6268 8844
Fax: +61 2 6268 8879
Email : d.lovell@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
David W. Lovell is a Professor in Politics in UNSW @ ADFA. He was born and raised in Adelaide, where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees; he went to Canberra in 1981 to write his PhD under the supervision of Prof Eugene Kamenka in the History of Ideas Unit at ANU. He has been a member of the UNSW since 1983, first at RMC Duntroon, and now at ADFA. During the early 1990s, he edited The Political Theory Newsletter, and was managing editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science. In 1992, he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and since 1993 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is co-editor of its journal, The European Legacy. He was a participant in the China-Australia Joint Seminar on Civil Society in Beijing in 1999, and was a member of the Australian government delegation to the Second Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, held in The Hague, May 2001. He is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He was Head of the School of Politics at UNSW @ ADFA from 2001–2003, Presiding Member of the Research Committee, 2003–2004, Acting Rector in 2004, and Deputy Rector (Special Projects) in 2008.
Research Interests
- Democracy and democratization
- Communist and post-communist systems
- Australian politics
- History of political thought
- Marx and Marxisms
- Political corruption
Publications
His books include:
- From Marx to Lenin (1984)
- Trotsky’s analysis of Soviet bureaucratization (1985)
- Marx's Proletariat (1988)
- The Theory of Politics (co-authored, 1991)
- The Transition from Socialism (co-edited, 1992)
- Ideas and Ideologies (co-edited 1994)
- Marxism and Australian Socialism (1997)
- The Australian Political System (co-authored, 1995, 1998)
- The Macquarie Student Writer’s Friend: A guide to essay writing (2001)
- The Transition: Evaluating the postcommunist experience (edited 2002)
- Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges (edited 2003)
- Our Unswerving Loyalty: A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920-1940 (co-edited, 2008)
- Protecting Civilians during Violent Conflict (co-edited, 2012)
Courses Taught
- Politics 1A (Introductory Politics)
- Modern political ideologies
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- democratisation
- civil society
- democracy promotion
- post-conflict state building
- postcommunism