Dr Carolin (Line) Liss

Carolin holds a Honours Degree (Thesis: The Sipadan Kidnapping `Drama´ (April – September 2000) The Rise of the Abu Sayyaf, International Terrorism, and the Global Media) from Murdoch University and an MA (Magister) degree in Politics and History from the University of Hannover, Germany. For her PhD, Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh, 1992-2006:A Prismatic Interpretation of Security, Carolin conducted fieldwork in Singapore, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah. Her interests include non-traditional security issues, the privatization of the security sector, as well social and political issues and changes in the Asian region.

Publications:

• 'Privatizing Anti-Piracy Services in Strategically Important Waterways: Risks, Challenges and Benefits', GraSPP Working Paper Series, October 2009, available: http://www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/dp/documents/GraSPP-DP-E-09-003OPU-DP-E-09-001.pdf
• ‘Ending Somalian Piracy: Pitfalls and Possibilities of Australian Naval Intervention and Long-term Human Security Policy Initiatives’, Austral Policy Forum 09-2A, 29 January 2009, available: http://www.globalcollab.org/Nautilus/australia/apsnet/policy-forum/2009/somalian-piracy-liss.
• ‘State or Market? Privatising Maritime Security in Southeast Asia’, in: D. Sujatha (ed), Maritime Law: International Perspective, Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, 2008.
• 'Privatising the Fight against Somali Pirates', Working Paper 152, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, November 2008, available at: http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/wp152.pdf
• ‘The Role of Private Security Companies in Securing the Malacca Straits', Maritime Studies, 157, November/December 2007, pp. 14-22.
• 'Abu Sayyaf and US and Australian Military Intervention in the Southern Philippines', Austral Policy Forum 07-23A, 29 November 2007.
• ‘A Culture of Piracy?’, Asiaview, November 2007, p.5.
• The Challenges of Piracy in Southeast Asia and the Role of Australia, Austral Policy Forum 07-19A, 25 October 2007.
• ‘The Roots of Piracy in Southeast Asia’, Austral Policy Forum 07-18A, 22 October 2007.
• 'Southeast Asia’s Maritime Security Dilemma: State or Market?', Japan Focus , 8 June 2007, available at: http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2444.
• ‘The Privatization of Maritime Security in Southeast Asia’, in: Thomas Jäger and Gerhard Kümmel (eds), Private Military and Security Companies , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (2007).
• ‘Hazards of Seafaring’, Encyclopedia of Maritime History, New York: Oxford University Press, (2007).(with Kurt Stenross).
• 'The Privatisation of Maritime Security - Maritime Security in Southeast Asia: Between a rock and a hard place?', Working Paper 141, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, February 2007, available at: http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/wp141.pdf
• ‘Private Military and Security Companies in the Fight against Piracy in Southeast Asia’, in Graham Gerard Ong-Webb, Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006, pp.103-133.
• 'Piracy in Asia: Private Responses', Asiaview, 15(1), 2005.

• Private Security Companies in the Fight against Piracy in Asia, Working Paper 120, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, June 2005, available at: http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/wp120.pdf
• ‘Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia’, Southeast Asian Affairs 2003, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 52-68.
• ‘Framing Terrorism in the Southern Philippines: Foreign Media and the Abu Sayyaf’, in Arndt Graf, Peter Kreuzer and Rainer Werning (eds), Peace in Moro Land? Conflict Regulation in the Southern Philippines, (forthcoming)
• ‘Contemporary Maritime Piracy in the Waters off Semporna, Sabah’, in John Kleinen and Manon Osseweijer, TBC, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, (forthcoming).

Conference Papers

• ‘The Role of Private Security Companies in Securing the Malacca Straits’, Study Group Meeting on the Security in Malacca and Singapore Straits, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) , Jakarta, 8-9 September 2007.
• 'Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia – the Challenges of Responding and the Role of Australia’, Australia and Asia: Issues of Global Security , University of Western Australia, 17 August 2007
• 'Maritime Security in Southeast Asia: Between a rock and a hard place?', British International Studies Association 2006 Annual Conference, Cork, 18-20 December 2006.
• ‘Changes in Maritime Security and Piracy in Semporna, Malaysia’, Ports, Pirates and Hinterlands in East and Southeast Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, International Institute of Asian Studies and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, 11-12 November 2005.
• ‘Piracy in Southeast Asia: Private Responses – Companies in the Fight Against Piracy’, Workshop on Maritime Security, Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the International Institute for Asian Studies, Singapore 23-24 September 2004.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150. Fax: 9360 6381, Email: c.liss@griffith.edu.au