Thomas Wilkins
BA (Hons) MA (Hons) PhD Birm
Senior Lecturer
Room 384
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 5008
Fax: +61 2 9351 3624
Dr Thomas Wilkins specialises in Security Studies and Strategic Studies, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. He wrote his Ph.D thesis on the topic of Coalition Warfare at the University of Birmingham and as an Exchange Visitor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Before joining the University of Sydney he was a Lecturer in Military History/Security at the Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, and held Post Doctoral Fellowships at the University of San Francisco, the East West Center (Honolulu) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (Amsterdam). In addition to contemporary International Relations and Security Thomas Wilkins retains an active interest the field of international history, where he regularly contributes to Military History journals.
Tom will spend the 2012-2013 academic year at National Taiwan University under the auspices of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan Fellowship and at Tokyo University via a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship.
Publications
2011-2012
Book Section/s
Wilkins T 2012 (final draft submitted) ‘Reinventing Japan in the Asian Century’, Book Chapter for Edited Volume, Matthias Maass, Yonsei University
Wilkins T 2011 (in press) ‘Japan-Australia Security Relations: Building a Real Strategic Partnership?’ in Bill Tow and Rikki Kersten, (eds.), Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security: Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region, London: Palgrave
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2011 (in press) ‘Alignment, not Alliance: The Shifting Paradigm of International Security Cooperation’ for Review of International Studies.
Wilkins T 2011 ‘Japanese Alliance Diversification: A Comparative Analysis of the Indian and Australian Strategic Partnerships’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, vol.11:1, pp. 115-155
Wilkins T 2011 ‘Australia and Japan: Allies in the making’, East Asia Forum, July 30th, 2011. http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/07/30/australia-and-japan-allies-in-the-making/
Wilkins T and Malcolm Cook, 2011 ‘Australia and Japan: Allies in Partnership’, Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 101, March 17, 2011. East West Center, Washington DC.
2010
Book Section/s
Wilkins T 2010 'Building Regional Security Architecture: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation From an Organisational Theories Perspective' in State, Society and International Relations in Asia, ed. M. Parvizi Amineh, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam , Netherlands, pp. 163-78
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2010 'Book Review: "Strategic Studies: A Reader", edited by Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo, London: Routledge, 2008', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.33:1, pp. 172-3
Wilkins T 2010 'The new 'Pacific Century' and the rise of China: an international relations perspective', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.64:4, pp. 381-405
Conference Paper/s
Wilkins T 2010 'Japan's Alliance Mobilization, 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association ISA 2010 - "Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners", New Orleans, United States, 20th February 2010
2009
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2009 'Book Review: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory. By Norman Davies. London: Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 978-0333-69285-1', Journal of Military History, vol.73:3, pp. 990-1
Wilkins T 2009 'Article Review: Anatomy of a Military Disaster: The Fall of Singapore 1942, (Reviewed works: Singapore Burning by Colin Smith, The Battle for Singapore by Peter Thompson, Britain’s Greatest Defeat by Alan Warren, and Singapore Diary: The Hidden Journal Of Captain R. M. Horner)', Journal of Military History, vol.73:1, pp. 221-230
Conference Paper/s
Wilkins T 2009 'China’s ‘Strategic Partnership’ Network: Mechanisms for Hegemony?, International Studies Association & Brazilian International Relations Association Joint International Meeting - ISA-ABRI Conference 2009 - "Diversity and Inequality in World Politics", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24th July 2009
Wilkins T 2009 'Shifting patterns of alignment in the Asia-Pacific, Santiago 2009 - 21st World Congress of Political Science, Santiago, Chile, 16th July 2009
2008
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2008 'Russo-Chinese Strategic Partnership: A New Form of Security Cooperation?', Contemporary Security Policy, vol.29:2, pp. 358-383
Wilkins T 2008 '“Analytical Eclecticism” in Theorizing Japanese Security Policy: A Review Essay. Reviewed works: Pyle, Kenneth B., Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (New York: Public Affairs, 2007), Katzenstein, Peter J., Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions (London: Routledge, 2008), Samuels, Richard J., Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, (New York: Cornell University Press, 2007).', Asian Security, vol.4:3, pp. 294-9
Wilkins T 2008 'Article Review: The Battle for Japan 1944-45 (A ‘Critique’ of Max Hastings’ ‘Nemesis’)', The Japan Policy Research Institute
Wilkins T 2008 'Article Review: Forgotten History? The Collapse of British Asia 1941-49 (Reviewed works: ‘Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia’ and ‘Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945’ by Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper)', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.86:345, pp. 101-103
Wilkins T 2008 'Article Review: “Graveyard of Armies”: A History of Conflict in Afghanistan (Reviewed works: ‘Afghanistan’ by Amalendu Misra and ‘The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan’ by Jeffery J. Roberts)', Journal of International Peace Keeping, vol.15:2
Wilkins T 2008 'How the West will cope with the rise of Asia (A review Essay of Kishore Mahbubani, ‘The New Asian Hemisphere’)', IIAS Newsletter:49
Wilkins T 2008 'Three’s a Crowd?: Declining US Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific (A Review Essay of Joseph Camilleri et al. (eds.) ‘Asia-Pacific Geopolitics’)', IIAS Newsletter:47
Wilkins T 2008 Forthcoming 'The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation-Building', Journal of Korean Studies, vol.32
Wilkins T 2008 'Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.31:4
2007
Book Section/s
Wilkins T 2007 'Trilateralism and Cooperation on Asymmetrical Threats: Terrorism, WMD and Regional Instability' in Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle (By invitation, with honorarium), ed. William Tow & et al, Routledge-Curzon, London, United Kingdom, pp. 164-177
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2007 'Towards a “Trilateral Alliance?” - Understanding the Role of Expediency and Values in American-Japanese-Australian Relations', Asian Security, vol.3:3, pp. 251-278
Wilkins T and Melillo E 2007 'The “Pacific Century” Revisited', Pacific Rim Report, vol.48
Wilkins T 2007 'Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945', War in History, vol.15:2
Wilkins T 2007 'Japan’s Security Policy and The ASEAN Regional Forum', Pacific Affairs, vol.80:2
Wilkins T 2007 'Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalisation and Peace Studies', Journal of International Peace Keeping, vol.14:5
Wilkins T 2007 'Asian Security Reassessed', Pacific Affairs, vol.80:1
Wilkins T 2007 'Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.30:6
Wilkins T 2007 'Together We Stand: America, Britain, and the Forging of an Alliance', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research
2006
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2006 'Analyzing Coalition Warfare from an Intra-Alliance Politics Perspective: The Normandy Campaign 1944', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.29:6, pp. 1121-1150
Wilkins T 2006 'The Defense and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research
2005
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2005 'Slim: Master of War', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.83:333
2004
Journal Article/s
Wilkins T 2004 'Coalition Formation and Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Case of an American-Japanese-Australian Combination', Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, vol.14, pp. 153-170
Wilkins T 2004 'Coalition Warfare: A New Framework for Analysis Required?', World Defense Systems:12