Dr Susan Park

Dr Susan Park

BA Flin, MA ANU, PhD Sydney

 

Phone

+61 2 9351 6593

Address

Room 264
Faculty of Arts
H04 - Merewether

Email

Susan is a Lecturer in International Relations. She joined the department in 2008 after teaching at Deakin University for three years and previously at the University of New South Wales.

Research Interests

  • International Relations
  • Constructivist theory, processes of socialisation and identity change
  • International Organisations
  • The World Bank Group
  • International Economic Organisations (the IMF and the WTO)
  • Non-Government Organisations; Environmental Advocacy
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Dr Park is particularly interested in supervising research and doctoral dissertations on international organisation behaviour and change, specifically in relation to global and regional organisations.

Publications

2009

Book

Park, S., forthcoming 2009, The World Bank Group and Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities London, Manchester University Press.

Book Section

Park, S., 2009, “Socialisation, The World Bank Group and Global Environmental Governance,” edited by Frank Biermann, Anna Schreyögg, and Bernd Siebenhüner, International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance Routledge, London and New York: 91-110.

Articles

Park, S., (forthcoming) “The World Bank, Dams and the Meaning of Sustainable Development in Use,” Journal of International Law and International Relations.

Park, S., forthcoming 2009, “Review Essay: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the 21st Century,” the Review of International Political Economy, (forthcoming).

Conference Papers

Park, S., 2009: “Private Sector Rule-Making: An Emerging Sustainable Finance Regime?” Presented at the European Consortium of Political Research Joint Session Workshop, Lisbon 14-19, April.

Park, S., 2009, “The World Bank Group: Owning the Global Safeguard Policy Norm” Follow up to the Owning Development Workshop held in San Francisco, Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February, New York City, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

Park, S., 2009, “Risking Business? Environmental Advocacy and the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February, New York City, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

Book Review

Park, S., 2009, Book Review of Gert Spaargaren, Arther P.J Mol and Frederick H. Buttel, Eds., Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006, International Environmental Agreements 9: 81-83.

2008

Conference papers

Park, S., 2008: “Assessing the Accountability of the World Bank Group” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Francisco, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

Book Review

Park, S., 2008, Book Review of Nancy Birdsall, ed, Rescuing the World Bank: A Centre for Global Development Working Report and Selected Essays, Centre for Global Development, Washington D.C., 2006, Australian Journal of International Affairs 62 (2): 267-8.

2007

Book Sections

Park, S., 2007, “Becoming Green: Diffusing Sustainable Development Norms throughout the World Bank Group” edited by Diane Stone and Chris Wright, The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction, Routledge; London: 168-88.

Articles

Weaver, C., and Park, S., 2007: “Poverty Alleviation and Human Development in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank,” Global Governance 13 (4): 461-68. this is the introduction to the Special Edition I edited of Global Governance on the World Bank.

Park, S., 2007: “World Bank Group: Championing Sustainable Development?” Global Governance 13 (4): 535-56.

Conference Proceedings

Park, S., 2007, “Greening Up: The World Bank Group in Global Environmental Governance” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Chicago, United States.
http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

Park, S., 2007, “Assessing World Bank Group Accountability,” Workshop on the World Bank, Bled, Slovenia, on May 17-18, 2007.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/activitiesnews/workshops/forthcoming/wbbled/

2006

Articles

Park, S., 2006, “Theorising Norm Diffusion within International Organisations” International Politics 43 (3): 342-61.

Conferences

Park, S., 2006, “UNEP’s Finance Initiative: Beyond Bluewash?” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Diego, United States.
http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

2005

Articles

Park, S., 2005, “Norm Diffusion within International Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank” Journal for International Relations and Development 8 (2): 114-41.

Park, S., 2005, “How Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks Socialise IFIs: A Case Study of the International Finance Corporation” Global Environmental Politics 5 (4): 95-119.

Conference Proceedings

Park, S., 2005, “Two Paths to Accountability: Assessing the World Bank Group” online conference proceedings for the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

Book Review

Mason, Michael, 2005, The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders, London and Virginia, Earthscan 2005, published in Global Environmental Politics 5 (4): 130-131.

2004

Articles

Park, S., 2004, “How Transnational Advocacy Networks Reconstitute IO Identities” Seton Hall Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy 5 (2): 79-93.

Thesis

Park, S., 2004, Norm Diffusion Within International Government Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank Group, PhD. The University of Sydney.

Conferences

Park, S., 2004, “Norm Diffusion within International Organisations: How Non-state Actors Shape World Politics” online conference proceedings for the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Montreal, Canada.
http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php

2003

Conference Proceedings

Park, S., 2003, “‘Greening’ the International Finance Corporation: Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks and Sustainable Development,” online conference proceedings for the Australasian Political Studies Association, September 2003.
http://www.utas.edu.au/government/APSA/RefereedPapers.html

Working Paper

Park, S., 2003, “Locating International Organisations in the Emerging Norms Literature,” University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business, Discipline of Government and International Relations Working Paper Series, November 2003. http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au ISBN 1 86487 604 2