Professor Samuel Makinda

SAMUEL M. MAKINDA is Professor of Politics and International Studies and the Chair of Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies at Murdoch University in Perth. He currently serves on the Australian Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee for International Security Issues. He is also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.

Professor Makinda was invited by the Kenyan Government to serve as a consultant to the biennial conference of Kenya’s ambassadors and high commissioners in Nairobi in May 2007. He also helped to establish a new Foreign Service Institute for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nairobi. He previously worked with the Foreign Affairs Group in the Parliamentary Research Service at the Australian Federal Parliament in 1980s, where he briefed Members of House of Representatives, Senators, Ministers and Parliamentary Committees on various international security issues, including US-Soviet relations and arms control.

Professor Makinda has research experience in the following areas: Transnational terrorism, arms control, security in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He has been a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University’s Global Security Programme, and a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford on two occasions. He is co-author of The African Union: Challenges of Globalization, Security and Governance (2007). His other publications include ‘Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Norms in Africa’, African Security Review, 15(3), 2006; ‘Global Governance and Terrorism’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 15(1), 2003; ‘Security and Sovereignty in the Asia-Pacific’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 23(3), 2001; Seeking Peace From Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia (1993); Security in the Horn of Africa, Adelphi Paper No. 269 (1992); and Superpower Diplomacy in the Horn of Africa (1987). He has also published more than 80 articles in academic journals, including Survival, Security Dialogue, Global Governance, Futures, Orbis, The World Today, and Cooperation and Conflict.

Professor Makinda has taught at the Australian National University, the University of Western Australia, Flinders University and the University of Nairobi. He also lectured regularly at the Australian Defence College/Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Weston Creek, ACT.

His books and monographs include:

Chair, Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Program, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150. Fax: 9360 6381, Email: s.makinda@murdoch.edu.au