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Dr Mark BeesonBA Hons, PhD (Murd) Mark Beeson joined the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham in mid 2007. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York, but most of his academic career has been undertaken in Australia. After completing a PhD at Murdoch University in Western Australia and spending two years as a Fellow in Murdoch’s Asia Research Centre, he moved to Brisbane, where he taught at Griffith University and then the University of Queensland. Most of Mark’s research has centred on the broadly-conceived Asia-Pacific region. He has written extensively on the politics, economics and—increasingly of late—the security of the region, and the impact these forces have had on the definition of the region itself. His approach to theoretical issues has been self-consciously eclectic and designed to capture the complex dynamics of regional and global processes. He is currently working on a number of projects that analyse the geopolitical context in which processes of regional integration are unfolding in East Asia. Recent authored books include Regionalism, Globalization and East
Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development, Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2007, and Securing Southeast Asia: The Politics
of Security Sector Reform, (with Alex Bellamy), London: Routledge,
2007. Lecturer on the politics, economics and Security of East Asia, Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, E-mail: m.beeson@bham.ac.uk |
