Dr David Walton
- Biography
- Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
- Grants / Current Projects
- Awards and Recognition
- Publications
- Professional Achievements
- Contact Details
Biography
David Walton is a Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies and International Relations. Prior to his appointment at UWS, David taught in the School of Asian and International Studies at Griffith University and the Department of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He is fascinated by the Asian region (and Japan in particular) and passionate about internationalising students through travel opportunities.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
International Relations; Political Science; Diplomatic History
Grants / Current Projects
Current Projects
New Approaches to Human Security in Asia
The Human Security in Asia Project (administered through the Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security, ANU) is designed to measure the extent to which Australia, China and Japan as concerned proponents of human security politics can coordinate viable human security approaches into their national security planning. Key academics from the ANU, UWS, Tokyo University, Osaka University and Fudan University have been involved in the project. Three workshops have been held (Osaka, Canberra and Shanghai) and an edited volume is currently being planned as the project outcome.
Grants
2012 Australia – Japan Foundation Travel Grant to attend and present a paper at the International Symposium on Security Cooperation between Australia and Japan, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, June 9 and 10, 2012.
2007 - Australia – Japan Foundation Travel Grant to attend and present a paper at the Australian Studies Association of Japan Conference, Ibaraki, Japan, June 3-6, 2007.
2004 - Osaka University of Foreign Studies Visiting Professor Grant
Awards and Recognition
2010 Visiting Fellow, Tokyo Economics University
2004 - Visiting Fellowship at Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
2003 - Visiting Fellow School of Languages and Asian Studies, University of Queensland.
1999 - Awarded excellence in teaching for recognition of outstanding performance as a teacher, School of Marketing, International Business and Asian Studies (University of Western Sydney).
1998 - Visiting Fellow at Tokyo Economics University
1995 - Visiting Fellow at Seikei University (Tokyo) and Visiting Fellow at Nanzan University (Nagoya).
Publications
Books
New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia, David Walton, Rikki Kersten and William. T. Tow (eds.) (London; Ashgate forthcoming) 
Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia: Early post-war diplomatic initiatives (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012).
An Anthology of Contending views on International Security. David Walton and Mike Frazier (eds.). (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012).
(2009) Pacifist Japan in a hostile region: Japanese postwar foreign policy towards Southeast Asia (with Gen Kikkawa and James Llewelyn) (New York: Nova Science Publishers).
Book chapters
‘Australian foreign policy towards Japan: weighing the bureaucratic processes’ in William T. Tow and Rikki Kersten (eds). Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security: Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
‘Australia and Japan: Towards a Full Security Partnership?’ Purnendra Jain and Peng Er Lam (eds.) Japan’s Strategic Challenges: The Rise of China, the Hegemonic Decline of the United States and Asian Security. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012).
‘Australia - Japan and the region: the West New Guinea dispute, 1952 – 1962’ in Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (eds) Japan’s future in East Asia and the Pacific: in honour of Peter Drysdale (Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2007)
‘Australia and Japan’ in John Ravenhill and James Cotton (eds) Trading on Alliances: Australia in World Affairs: 2001 -2005 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007.
‘Australia-Japan and the region, 1952 to 1965: The beginnings of security policy networks’ in Brad Williams and Andrew Newman (eds) Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2006).
‘Australian Regional Diplomacy’ in Burnie Bishop and Deborah MacNamara (eds.) Asian - Australia Survey 1997-98 (Melbourne: Macmillan) 1997.
‘Memories of Conflict: Australia - Japan Relations, 1952-1962’ in Donald McMillen (ed.) Globalisation and regional Communities (Toowoomba: University of Southern Queensland Press) 1997.
‘Australia-Japan: movements towards peace’ (with Dr Neil Renwick) in K. Kodama and T. Takayanagi (ed), Japan and Peace (Tokyo: Mie Academic Press). Japan. 1994.
Refereed Journal Articles
‘The role of Prime Ministers in Australia-Japan Relations: Howard and Rudd’ Round Table Journal of Commonwealth Affairs Vol. 99. Issue No. 409, 2010 pp. 429 – 437.
‘Australia and Japan: Towards a new security partnership?’ Japanese Studies, Vol. 28. No. 1 May 2008.
‘Future directions in Australia-Japan relations’ Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 60, Number 4, December 2006 pp. 598 – 606.
‘East Timor and Japan: Implications for Australia-Japan relations’, Japanese Studies, Vol. 24, No.2, September 2004 pp. 238 -246.
‘Regional Dialogue in Australia-Japan Relations, 1952-64: An Australian Perspective’ Review of Asian and Pacific Studies Tokyo, No.14, 1997, pp. 19-39.
Professional Achievements
Issues in Northeast Asian Security. Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan. September 17 and 18. (I chaired a panel on Six Party Talks on the Korean Peninsula).
Participated in the March 2008 Oxford Roundtable workshop on international security (Invited)
Guest editor of international journals:
- ‘New directions in Japanese foreign policy’ (with Purnendra Jain) Japanese Studies Vol. 28, no. 1 May 2008.
- ‘The NARA Treaty: 30 Years On’ Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 60, No.4, December 2006.
- ‘Australia - Japan relations’ Japanese Studies Vol. 24, No. 2, September 2004.
Service to the academic community:
Area Editor, International Relations, Asian Studies Review (2012 - )
Member of the National Executive of Japanese Studies Asociation of Australian (2003-)
Political Science editor, Japanese Studies (2005 - 2012)
Involvement in Australia – Japan Year of exchange activities (2006):
Recent conferences:
`Issues in Northeast Asian Security.´ Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan. September 17 and 18, 2011. (I chaired a panel on Six Party Talks on the Korean Peninsula).
‘Australia and Japan: Collaboration on Human Security’. Human Security: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. September 19 and 20, 2011.
‘Contemporary Australia – Japan security initiatives: Towards a full security treaty?’
The Rise of China, Hegemonic decline of the US: Implications for Japan and Asian Security. National University of Singapore, January 21, 2011.
‘Australia, Japan and the Region, 1952 to 1965’ Department of International Relations seminar series, Sophia University, Tokyo, November 9, 2010.
