Department of Government and International Relations
The University of Sydney
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Professor Peter King

Professor Peter King of the Government and International Relations Department at the University of Sydney, Australia  

BA Melb. PhD ANU

 
  Phone 9351 7400
  FAX 9351 3624
  Location Room 267
H04 – Merewether Building
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Professor Peter King's research and teaching interests include: Australia's relations with South East Asia, North East Asia and the South Pacific; the politics of nationalism and self-determination in West Papua; the political dynamics of corruption in Indonesia, and “the future of inhumanity”—being surveyed in its military, corporate and governmental dimensions.

His publications include From Rhetoric to Reality? Papua New Guinea's Eight Point Plan and National Goals After a Decade; Pangu Returns to Power; Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post Communist World, Peace Building in the Asia/Pacific Region, and West Papua and Indonesia since Suharto.

Peter King was the founding President, later Director, of the Centre for Peace and Confict Studies (CPACS), Sydney University, in 1988. Since 2000 he has been Convener of the West Papua Project within CPACS.

Research Interests

 
  • Indonesia under reform: Democratisation and disintegration
  • Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific
  • West Papua: The post Suharto struggle for self determination

Publications

 

2007

Report/s

King P, Elmslie J and Lynch J 2007 'Blundering in? The Australia-Indonesia security treaty and the humanitarian crisis in West Papua', Report for the West Papua Project of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), University of Sydney.

2006

Journal Article/s

King P and Rahim LZ 2006 'Editors´ Introduction', Policy and Society (Special Issue:Asia Early this Century: Contested Polities and Mentalities), vol.25:4.

King P 2006 'In Defence of the Papua Sympathisers: A Rejoinder to Ed Aspinall ', Policy and Society (Special Issue:Asia Early this Century: Contested Polities and Mentalities), vol.25:4, pp. 131-37.

King P 2006 'Korupsi dan Disintegrasi in Indonesia since Suharto', Policy and Society (Special Issue:Asia Early this Century: Contested Polities and Mentalities), vol.25:4, pp. 3-22.(142Kb)

2005

Journal Article/s

King P 2005 'The memory wars: Japan, China and Asia´s future', IIAS Newsletter, vol.38:Autumn.

Report/s

King P and Wing J 2005 'Genocide in West Papua? The role of the Indonesian state apparatus and a current needs assessment of the Papuan people', Report prepared for the West Papua Project at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, and ELSHAM Jayapura, CPACS, University of Sydney.

2004

Book/s

King P 2004 West Papua and Indonesia since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy or Chaos?, University of New South Wales Press and Zed Books, Sydney and London.

2003

Report/s

Rees S, Ondawame J and King P 2003 'Reconciliation and Consolidation Among Papuans', West Papua Project Position Paper No 4, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Sydney.

2002

Journal Article/s

King P 2002 'Morning Star Rising? Indonesia Raya and the New Papuan Nationalism', Indonesia, vol.73, pp. 89-127.

2001

Journal Article/s

King P 2001 'Autonomy Federalism or the Unthinkable? Indonesian debates and the future of West Papua', South Pacific Study, vol.21:2, pp. 45-60.

King P 2001 'Time running out? The Pacific Islands and Globalization', Pacific and American Studies, vol.1, pp. 109-124.

2000

Journal Article/s

King P 2000 'Making Indonesia Work for the People: Chusnul Mar'iyah Thrives on Controversy', Inside Indonesia:64, pp. 20-22.

1998

Book Section/s

King P 1998 'January-December 1981' in A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle 1967-1991, Crawford House, C. Hurst and Co., Bathurst pp. 347-354.

King P 1998 'January-June 1983' in A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle 1967-1991, Crawford House, C. Hurst and Co., Bathurst pp. 367-372.

King P 1998 'July-December 1982' in A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle 1967-1991, Crawford House, C. Hurst and Co., Bathurst pp. 362-366.

King P 1998 'July-December 1983' in A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle 1967-1991, Crawford House, C. Hurst and Co., Bathurst pp. 373-377.

King P 1998 'Political Chronicles, 1981-83' in A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle 1967-1991, ed. Clive Moore and Mary Kooyman, Crawford House, Bathurst pp. 347-354.

Conference Paper/s

King P 1998 'The Politics of Apology and the Politics of Regional Reputation: Japan and Australia',Paper delivered at the Second University of Tokyo/University of Sydney International Symposium, Women's College University of Sydney.

1997

Book Section/s

King GP 1997 'Japan and Australia: From Enmity to Enmeshment?' in Australia and Asia, ed. Mark McGillivray and Gary Smith, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.