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Wilson Center Awards Australian Scholarship
June 02, 2009
WASHINGTON--The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today announced the appointment of Dr. James Cotton as a Wilson Center Australian Scholar. Cotton will spend two months in residence at the Wilson Center, beginning in September 2009, working on a research project examining the process of reassessment and readjustment in recent relations between Australia and its major international partners.
Cotton is a professor at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 1978. In addition to more than 100 book chapters and articles covering the politics of the Asia-Pacific region, he is the author of East Timor, Australia and Regional Order: Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia RoutledgeCurzon, 2004). In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London.
Cotton’s stay at the Wilson Center will allow him to work on the fourth volume in a series published by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, which retrospectively surveys five-year periods of Australian foreign policy. The most recent volume examines events from 2006-2010, a period of considerable foreign policy adjustment in Australia, given the demise at the end of 2007 of the Coalition government led by John Howard. Cotton’s research in Washington will focus on Australia’s relations with the United States. The current Labor government under Kevin Rudd has distanced itself from Howard’s staunch support of many of the Bush administration’s foreign policy initiatives, including the war on Iraq. However, with the inauguration of Barack Obama, there is likely to be a great deal of policy convergence between Washington and Canberra on issues such as the global financial crisis, proliferation threats and terrorism. The process of mutual reassessment and adjustment of the bilateral relationship will be one of the central themes in Cotton’s upcoming volume.
The Australian Scholar program is the centerpoint of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s enhanced emphasis on Australia and U.S.-Australian relations. This scholarship competition is open to Australian citizens and residents. Applications are accepted from individuals in academia, business, journalism, government, law, and related professions. Candidates must be currently pursuing research on key public policy issues facing Australia, including U.S.-Australian relations and East Asian political, security, and economic issues.
Successful applicants will spend 2-4 months in residence at the Wilson Center, where they will carry out advanced, policy-oriented research and writing designed to bridge the gap between the academic and policy communities. Additional information on the Australian Scholar program may be found at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1462&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=168550.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds and engaged in the study of national and world affairs.
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