Dr Christopher Roberts
Visiting Fellow
Email: c.roberts@adfa.edu.au
Professional and Teaching Experience
Christopher Roberts is a lecturer in international relations and Asian studies at the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Business and Government. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore and has held visiting appointments at both RSIS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Christopher’s PhD was supervised by Professor James Cotton at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW@ADFA and was completed in 2007. Thanks to a number of research grants from UNSW@ADFA, as well as the Australian government’s Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award, he has travelled to and conducted fieldwork (both surveys and interviews) in all ten of the ASEAN countries.
Research Interests / Projects
International relations theory and Southeast Asian politics and security including a particular emphasis on Indochina and Myanmar. Current research projects include the impact of democratic versus authoritarian values on regional institutionalism and the processes behind political, socio-cultural and economic integration.
Publications
The author is currently completing a book for Routledge entitled ‘ASEAN Regionalism’ as well as a book for ISEAS entitled ‘ASEAN’s Myanmar Crisis’. He has also published several book chapters, journal articles and commentaries on issues ranging from international relations theory to ASEAN and regional security issues such as the South China Sea.