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Name: Dr Dennis Shoesmith

 

Qualifications: BA
MA
PhD
Main role: Senior Lecturer - History
Phone: +61 8 8946 6751
Fax: +61 8 8946 6540
Email: dennis.shoesmith@cdu.edu.au
Address:

School of Creative Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia



Research Interests

Dennis' research interests include:

  • Comparative politics of Southeast Asia
  • Leadership and state-building in East Timor

Recent Publications

  1. Shoesmith, D. (2003). East Timor and Australia's Security. The Eye of the Storm: Australia's Location in an Arc of Instability, Charles Darwin University, 29-30 September 2003, Darwin, Australia.
  2. Shoesmith, D. (2003). The War in Iraq: Consequences for Australia in our region. Making Sense of the War in Iraq, Charles Darwin University, 3 April 2003, Darwin, Australia.
  3. Shoesmith, D. (2003). Timor Leste: Divided Leadership in a Semi-Presidential System. Asian Survey, 43 (2), pp 231-252.
  4. Shoesmith, D. (2002). Political Islam in Indonesia. Public Seminar 'Bali Bombing and the Aftermath', Charles Darwin University, 17 October 2002, Darwin, Australia.

Current Projects

  • The forthcoming national elections in East Timor
  • Capacity-building in social research in East Timor

Recent Completions Supervised

  • Tom Lewis: PhD - Policy on Australia's border security in the north
  • Stephen Atkinson: PhD - Commercial television in Indonesia
  • Adele O'Connor: MA - Abdurrahman Wahid: a biographical and gender-based analysis
  • Louise Crowe: MA - Impact of the Indonesian annexation on the Catholic Church in East Timor
  • Juan Federer: PhD - Northern Territory Government paradiplomacy in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
  • Wilfred Brett Aldam: MA - A Critical Theory Analysis of Australian Aid to Southeast Asia

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