Dr Susan Park
BA Flin, MA ANU, PhD Sydney
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Susan is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. She joined the department in 2008 after teaching at Deakin University for three years and previously at the University of New South Wales.
Dr Park’s current research project examines the rise, spread and efficacy of accountability mechanisms that have been created by Multilateral Development Banks in order to redress the negative impacts of development projects on local communities.
Susan has consulted for the Asian Development Bank on improving outreach for their Accountability Mechanism.
Dr Park is the Chair of the organising committee for the Oceanic International Studies Conference to be hosted by the Department of Government and International Relations, July 18-20 2012. OCIS is a biennial event that is one of the largest conferences on international relations and international studies in Australia and New Zealand.
In 2011 Susan was elected to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association. In 2009 Susan was Chair of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee for the best book on international and environmental problems. The award is given at the annual International Studies Association conference.
Susan is a member of the editorial board for the Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Research Interests
- International Relations
- Constructivist theory, processes of socialisation and identity change
- International Organisations and Global Governance
- The World Bank Group and Regional Development Banks
- International Economic Organisations (the IMF and the WTO)
- Non-Government Organisations; Environmental Advocacy
- Global Environmental Politics
- Dr Park is particularly interested in supervising research and doctoral dissertations on international organisation behaviour and change, specifically in relation to global and regional organisations.
Publications
Books
Park, S., 2010, The World Bank Group and Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities, London, Manchester University Press.
Park, S. and Vetterlein, A. (eds), 2010, Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Park, S., 2012, “Differences Beyond Theory: Structural, Strategic, and Sentimental Approaches to Normative Change” (with Wesley Widmaier), International Studies Perspectives, 13 (2):
Park, S., 2010 “Designing Accountability: International Economic Organisations and the World Bank’s Inspection Panel,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 64 (1): 13-36.
Park, S., 2009, “Review Essay: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the 21st Century,” Review of International Political Economy,16 (2): 329-49.
Park, S., 2009 “The World Bank, Dams and the Meaning of Sustainable Development in Use,” Journal of International Law and International Relations, 5(1): 93-124.
Park, S., 2009,“International Organizations: Agents of Change in the Twenty-First Century?” Politika Annual Journal, the Politics and Public Administration Association, The University of Hong Kong: 16-22.
Weaver, C., and Park, S., 2007: “Poverty Alleviation and Human Development in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank,” Global Governance 13 (4): 461-68. This is the introduction to the Special Edition I edited of Global Governance on the World Bank.
Park, S., 2007: “World Bank Group: Championing Sustainable Development?” Global Governance 13 (4): 535-56.
Park, S., 2006, “Theorising Norm Diffusion within International Organisations” International Politics 43 (3): 342-61.
Park, S., 2005, “Norm Diffusion within International Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank” Journal for International Relations and Development 8 (2): 114-41.
Park, S., 2005, “How Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks Socialise IFIs: A Case Study of the International Finance Corporation” Global Environmental Politics 5 (4): 95-119.
Park, S., 2004, “How Transnational Advocacy Networks Reconstitute IO Identities” Seton Hall Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy 5 (2): 79-93.
Book Sections
Park, S., 2012, “Greening Development Finance: Cases from the World Bank Group,” in Peter Dauvergne, The Global Environmental Politics Handbook, Massachusetts, Edward Elgar (Publication date April 2012).
Park, S., 2012, “The Anatomy of Agency: Two Wolfs, Sustainable Development, Anticorruption and the World Bank,” (with Catherine E Weaver), in Joel E. Oesterich (ed), International Organizations as Self-Directed Actors: A Framework For Analysis, London and New York, Routledge (Publication date August 2012): 93-120.
Park, S., 2012, “Bankers’ Governing the Environment? Private Authority, Power Diffusion and the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative” edited by Stefano Guzzini and Iver Neumann on Private Authority, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan (Publication date October 2012).
Park, S., 2011, “Os Ambientalistas Poderao ‘tornar verde’ a Agencia Multilateral de Garantia de Investimentos” in Mônica Dias Martins and Rosemary Galli (ed), Multilateralismo e Reacoes Sul Americanos, Brazil: Editora da Universidade Estadual do Ceará: 83-116. [English translation: “Can Activists ‘Green’ Political Risk? The Case of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency” in Mônica Dias Martins and Rosemary Galli (ed), Multilateralism in South American Nations, University of Cera, Brazil: UECE: 83-116.]
Park, S., 2010: “Owning Development: Creating Global Development Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank,” with Antje Vetterlein, in Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein (eds) Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Park, S., 2010: “The World Bank’s Global Safeguard Policy Norm?” in Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein (eds) Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Park, S., 2010: “Do Policy Norms Reconstitute Global Development?” with Antje Vetterlein, in Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein (eds) Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Park, S., 2009, “Socialisation, The World Bank Group and Global Environmental Governance,” edited by Frank Biermann, Anna Schreyögg, and Bernd Siebenhüner, International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance Routledge, London and New York: 91-110.
Park, S., 2007, “Becoming Green: Diffusing Sustainable Development Norms throughout the World Bank Group” edited by Diane Stone and Chris Wright, The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction, Routledge; London: 168-88.
Conference Papers
Park, S., 2009: “Private Sector Rule-Making: An Emerging Sustainable Finance Regime?” Presented at the European Consortium of Political Research Joint Session Workshop, Lisbon 14-19, April.
Park, S., 2009, “The World Bank Group: Owning the Global Safeguard Policy Norm” Follow up to the Owning Development Workshop held in San Francisco, Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February, New York City, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2009, “Risking Business? Environmental Advocacy and the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February, New York City, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., "The UNEP-FI: Creating the Environment for the Finance Industry" presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February 17-20, New Orleans, United States.
Park, S., "Teachers Pets? IO Change, Learning and Norms," (with Antje Vetterlein) presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February 17-20, New Orleans, United States.
Park, S., 2008: “Assessing the Accountability of the World Bank Group” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Francisco, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2007, “Greening Up: The World Bank Group in Global Environmental Governance” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Chicago, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2007, “Assessing World Bank Group Accountability,” Workshop on the World Bank, Bled, Slovenia, on May 17-18, 2007. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/activitiesnews/workshops/forthcoming/wbbled/
Park, S., 2006, “UNEP’s Finance Initiative: Beyond Bluewash?” Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Diego, United States. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2005, “Two Paths to Accountability: Assessing the World Bank Group” online conference proceedings for the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2004, “Norm Diffusion within International Organisations: How Non-state Actors Shape World Politics” online conference proceedings for the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Montreal, Canada. http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/search.php
Park, S., 2003, “‘Greening’ the International Finance Corporation: Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks and Sustainable Development,” online conference proceedings for the Australasian Political Studies Association, September 2003. http://www.utas.edu.au/government/APSA/RefereedPapers.html
Book Reviews
Park, S., 2011: Book Review of Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk, Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK 2009, Australian Journal of International Affairs 65 (1): 135-6.
Park, S., 2010, Book Review of Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhuner (Eds) Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies MIT Press Cambridge MA, 2009, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28 (5): 943.
Park, S., 2009, Book Review of Gert Spaargaren, Arther P.J Mol and Frederick H. Buttel, Eds., Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006, International Environmental Agreements 9: 81-83.
Park, S., 2008, Book Review of Nancy Birdsall, ed, Rescuing the World Bank: A Centre for Global Development Working Report and Selected Essays, Centre for Global Development, Washington D.C., 2006, Australian Journal of International Affairs 62 (2): 267-8.
Park, S., 2005, Book Review of Mason, Michael, The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders, London and Virginia, Earthscan 2005, published in Global Environmental Politics 5 (4): 130-131.
Thesis
Park, S., 2004, Norm Diffusion Within International Government Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank Group, PhD. The University of Sydney.
Working Paper/s
Park, S., 2003, “Locating International Organisations in the Emerging Norms Literature,” University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business, Discipline of Government and International Relations Working Paper Series, November 2003. http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au ISBN 1 86487 604 2
Current Supervising Postgraduates
- Helena Varkkey – Transboundary Haze Management and ASEAN
- Michael Gaskin – The Legitimacy of the G20
- Mikhail Mukhametdinov – MERCOSUR and the European Union: Variation among the Factors of Regional Cohesion