Dr David Walton

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
• Professional Achievements
  
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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.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

International Relations; Political Science; Diplomatic History

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Grants / Current Projects

Current Projects

1. The Australia-Japan security Relationship and New Regional Security Architecture: Opportunities and Obstacles.

This is a three-year project under the umbrella of the International Alliance of Research Universities which started in March 2009. The project is run jointly by colleagues at the Australian National University and Tokyo University. I have been invited to participate and write on bureaucratic factors in the making of foreign policy.

2. 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.

Edited book plan

Ten Years after 9/11: An Anthology of Contending views on Security. (edited book project with Mike Frazier from Howard University, Washington DC).

The genesis of the edited book volume project was a security roundtable workshop held at Oxford University in March 2008. Rigorous academic debate at the roundtable focused on the efficacy of both traditional and non-traditional interpretations of security in a post-9/11 environment. In particular, discussion centred on the challenges facing the nation-state, north-south divide and structural inequalities, globalization, cross border mobility and the emergence of ‘soft’ security issues. As such the book is an important collection of essays that analyses security concerns in the contemporary period and considers what have been some key security issues over the past decade.

Grants

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

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Awards and Recognition

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).

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Publications

Books

(Forthcoming) Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia: Early post-war diplomatic initiatives (New York: Nova Publishers) in print.

(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

‘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

‘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.

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Professional Achievements

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

Member of the National Executive of Japanese Studies Asoociation of Australian (2003-)

Political Science editor, Japanese Studies (2005 -)

Involvement in Australia – Japan Year of exchange activities (2006):

July 31 ‘30th anniversary of Nara Treaty’ (closed workshop) University House, ANU. The workshop was run by the Australia Japan Research Centre, ANU and the Australian Institute of International Affairs. I was a co-organiser and gave a paper on future directions in Australia-Japan relations.

October 14 ‘Prospects for the Australia-Japan partnership’.
Guest speaker, National Federation of Australia – Japan Societies Conference 2006, Darling Harbour, Sydney. (other speakers were current Australian and Japanese Ambassadors and former PRime Minister Malcolm Fraser)

January 2007 ‘Building a Partnership’ in Australia and Japan: Friendship and Prosperity Focus Publishers (in Print). *This is a bilingual commemorative corporate book highlighting cultural and commercial linkages between Australia and Japan.

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.

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