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Greg Austin

Ph D, M Int Law

Academic Profile

DR GREG AUSTIN is a Professorial Fellow at the East West Institute, with offices in New York, Brussels and Moscow. He took up this post after serving with distinction as a Vice President in the Institute for five years. He has a high profile career in public policy, including senior posts in government, public policy mobilization and academia. He has also held senior posts in the International Crisis Group and the Foreign Policy Centre (London).

Sample Publications

SELECTED BOOKS Japan and Greater China–Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century, Hurst & Co, London and University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2001, co-author with Stuart Harris China’s Ocean Frontier–International Law, Military Force and National Development, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998 Chinese Foreign Policy: Motivations, Power and Responsibility, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, 2001, co-edited with Yongjin Zhang SELECTED MONOGRAPHS/REPORTS “Towards a G20 Action Plan for Resilience in the Horn of Africa and Arabian Peninsula”, lead author and coordinator, Report of a Consultation Process, EastWest Institute, January 2012, 12pp “Bridging the Fault Lines: Collective Security in Southwest Asia”, a study group report, lead author and coordinator, EastWest Institute, January 2012, 16pp “EuroAtlantic Security: One Vision, Three Paths”, EastWest Institute, New York/Brussels/Moscow, Expert Group Report (leader and principal author), May 2009, 18pp (the results of a series of international consultations led by me) Co-author and research team leader, ‘Evaluation of the UK Conflict Prevention Pools: Synthesis Report’, Cabinet Office, FCO, MOD, DFID, HMT, 2004, 167pp, See http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutdfid/performance/files/ev647synthesis.pdf. And associated seven additional short volumes China-Japan Relations 1995-2005, co-authored with Professor Stuart Harris, Andrew Mack and Pauline Kerr, Consultancy Report, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April, 1995, 100pp. (Personal contribution was for first draft of six of seven chapters) ‘EU Policy Responses to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’, confidential briefing to the European Commission, December 2002. Full reports authored at the International Crisis group (principal author):  EU Crisis Response Capability: Institutions and Processes for Conflict Prevention and Management June 2001  Taiwan Strait: What’s Left of ‘One China’ June 2003  Taiwan Strait: The Risk of War June 2003  Taiwan Strait: The Path to Peace June 2003 SELECTED PAMPHLETS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Russia, the United States, and Cyber Diplomacy: Opening the Doors”, EastWest Institute, New York/Brussels/Moscow, co-authored with Franz Stefan Gady, September 2010, 20 pp “New Russia, New Ally: A Bilateral Security Agenda Beyond 2008”, EastWest Institute, New York/Brussels/Moscow, June 2007, jointly with Simon Saradzhyan and Geoff Procak, 18 pp ‘Preventing Terrorism? Direct Measures First – Intrusive, Normative and Personal!’, in David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel (eds), Applied Conflict Prevention: Opportunities and Constraints, Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2003. “Protect! Civilians and civil rights in counter-terrorist operations”, EastWest Institute, New York/Brussels/Moscow, August 2007, jointly with Aisha Sabadia, 18 pp ‘A Day in the Future: Accelerating Solutions to Global Security Threats’, EastWest Institute, with Leland Russell, February 2008 ‘Energy Sovereignty and Security’, EastWest Institute, with Danila Bochkarev, January 2007 ‘A New Grand Bargain for Peace Towards a Reformation in International Security Law’, Foreign Policy Centre, London, February 2005 (with Ken Berry), 36pp With Ben Koppelman, ‘Darfur and Genocide’, Foreign Policy Centre, July 2004, 45 pp plus appendices. ‘Leeds Manifesto: How to Spend $100 bn for Africa’, Foreign Policy Centre, London, November 2005 (with Claude Misson), 8pp ‘Unwanted Entanglement: Philippines’ Spratly Policy as a Case of Conflict Enhancement’, Security Dialogue, March 2003, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 41-54. ‘The China Periphery: The New US Challenge and Beijing’s Response’, Working Paper, European Institute for East Asian Security, December 2002. ‘China’s Power: Searching for Stable Domestic Foundations’, in Yongjin Zhang and Greg Austin (eds.), Chinese Foreign Policy: Motivations, Power and Responsibility, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, 2001. ‘The PRC at Fifty: Towards a Responsible Power’, co-authored with Yongjin Zhang, in Yongjin Zhang and Greg Austin (eds.), Chinese Foreign Policy: Motivations, Power and Responsibility, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, 2001. ‘Japan, China and Regional Order’, co-authored with Stuart Harris, in Peter Drysdale and Dong Dong Zhang (eds), Japan and China: Rivalry or Cooperation in East Asia?, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, 2000, pp. 137-161. ‘Alliances and Alignments in the Asia Pacific: Foundations for Stability or Seeds of Disaster?’, in Mohammed Jawhar Hassan and Mely C. Anthony (eds), Taming Turmoil in the Pacific, AIS, Kuala Lumpur, 1999, pp. 285-305 ‘Gulfs in Sino-Japanese Relations: An Evaluation of Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy toward China’, co-authored with Diana Betzler, Journal of East Asian Affairs, vol. 11, no. 2, 1997, pp. 570-613 ‘Economic Rivalry and Security Linkages in US-Japan Relations’, in Stuart Harris and Andrew Mack (eds.), Asia-Pacific Security: The Economics–Politics Nexus, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997, pp. 172-194

Current Position

Professorial Fellow, EastWest Institute