Dr Susan Park

BA Flin, MA ANU, PhD Sydney

BACKGROUND

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 chaired the fifth Oceanic International Studies Conference which was hosted by the Department of Government and International Relations, July 18-20 2012. OCIS is a biennial event that is the largest conference on international relations and international studies in Australia and New Zealand.

Susan has a long standing commitment to Global Environmental Politics. She was elected to be the Vice President (program chair) of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association for 2014-2016. Susan was a member of the Executive Committee for 2012-2013 and in 2009 was the was Chair of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee for the best book on international and environmental problems (she was a member of the committee in 2008). 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

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.

Current Research Students

• 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

TEACHING

Past Courses

• GOVT2226 - International Organisations
• GOVT6116 - International Organisations
• GOVT4101 - Government Honours A

PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored and Edited

Park, S 2010, The World Bank Group and Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities, London, Manchester University Press.

Park, S & Vetterlein, A (eds) 2010, Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

Park, S., 2014, “Something Old, Something New; Something Borrowed, Something Blue? Institutional Isomorphism and the Asian Development Bank’s Accountability Mechanism” Pacific Review vol. 27, no. 2.

Griffen, P, Hastings, J & Park, S 2013, "Asia Pacific Going Forward: A View from OCIS V", Global Change, Peace and Security, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-3.

Park, S & Widmaier, W 2012, "Differences Beyond Theory: Structural, Strategic, and Sentimental Approaches to Normative Change", International Studies Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 2, pp.123-134.

Park, S2010, "Designing Accountability: International Economic Organisations and the World Bank’s Inspection Panel", Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 13-36, available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10357710903459990.

Park, S 2009, "Review Essay: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the 21st Century", Review of International Political Economy, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 329-49.

Park, S 2009, "The World Bank, Dams and the Meaning of Sustainable Development in Use", Journal of International Law and International Relations, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 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, pp. 16-22.

Weaver, C, & Park, S 2007, "Poverty Alleviation and Human Development in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank", Global Governance, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 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, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 535-56.

Park, S 2006, "Theorising Norm Diffusion within International Organisations", International Politics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 342-61.

Park, S 2005, "Norm Diffusion within International Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank", Journal for International Relations and Development, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 114-41.

Park, S 2005, "How Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks Socialise IFIs: A Case Study of the International Finance Corporation", Global Environmental Politics, vol 5, no. 4, pp. 95-119.

Park, S 2004, "How Transnational Advocacy Networks Reconstitute IO Identities", Seton Hall Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 79-93.

Edited Special Editions of Journals

Griffin, P, Hastings, J & Park, S (eds) 2013, Global Peace Change and Security, vol. 25, no. 1.

Park, S (eds) 2007, Global Governance, vol. 13, no. 4.

Book Chapters

Park, S, 2013, "Transnational Environmental Activism", in R Faulkner (ed), The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy, Wiley-Blackwell, UK.

Park, S 2012, "Greening Development Finance: Cases from the World Bank Group", in P Dauvergne (ed), The Global Environmental Politics Handbook, Edward Elgar, Massachusetts.

Park, S & Weaver, C 2012, "The Anatomy of Agency: Two Wolfs, Sustainable Development, Anticorruption and the World Bank", in J Oesterich (ed), International Organizations as Self-Directed Actors: A Framework For Analysis, Routledge, London, New York.

Park, S 2012, "Bankers' Governing the Environment? Private Authority, Power Diffusion and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative", in S Guzzini & I Neumann (eds), The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy Meets Foucault, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Park, S 2011, "Os Ambientalistas Poderao ‘tornar verde’ a Agencia Multilateral de Garantia de Investimentos [Can Activists ‘Green’ Political Risk? The Case of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency]", in M Martins & R Galli (ed), Multilateralismo e Reacoes Sul Americanos [Multilateralism in South American Nations], Editora da Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil.

Park, S & Vetterlein, A 2010: "Owning Development: Creating Global Development Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank,", in S Park & A Vetterlein (eds), Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Park, S 2010: "The World Bank’s Global Safeguard Policy Norm?" in S Park & A Vetterlein (eds), Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, available online at http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5634776/?site_locale=en_GB.

Park, S & Vetterlein, A 2010: "Do Policy Norms Reconstitute Global Development?", in S Park & A Vetterlein (eds), Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Park, S 2009, "Socialisation, The World Bank Group and Global Environmental Governance", in F Biermann, A Schreyögg & B Siebenhüner (eds), International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance, Routledge, London and New York.

Park, S 2007, "Becoming Green: Diffusing Sustainable Development Norms throughout the World Bank Group" edited by D Stone & C Wright, The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction, Routledge; London.

Selected Conference Papers

Park, S 2009, "Private Sector Rule-Making: An Emerging Sustainable Finance Regime?", paper 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.

Park, S 2009, "Risking Business? Environmental Advocacy and the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency", paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February, New York City, United States.

Park, S 2008, "The UNEP-FI: Creating the Environment for the Finance Industry", paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, February 17-20, New Orleans, United States.

Park, S & Vetterlein A 2008, "Teachers Pets? IO Change, Learning and Norms", paper 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", paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Francisco, United States.

Park, S 2007, "Greening Up: The World Bank Group in Global Environmental Governance", paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, Chicago, United States.

Park, S 2007, "Assessing World Bank Group Accountability", paper presented at Workshop on the World Bank, Bled, Slovenia, on May 17-18, 2007, available online at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/events/workshops/wbbled.

Park, S 2006, "UNEP’s Finance Initiative: Beyond Bluewash?", paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, March, San Diego, United States.

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.

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.

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.

Working Papers

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. ISBN 1 86487 604 2

Book Reviews

Park, S 2011, "The International Labour Organisation: Coming in from the Cold", by S Hughes & N Haworth, Political Science, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 240-241.

Park, S 2011, "Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet" by J Camilleri & J Falk, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 135-6.

Park, S 2010, "Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies", ed F Biermann & B Siebenhuner, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 943.

Park, S 2009, "Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory", eds G Spaargaren, A Mol & F Buttel, International Environmental Agreements, vol. 9, pp. 81-83.

Park, S 2008, "Rescuing the World Bank: A Centre for Global Development Working Report and Selected Essays" ed N Birdsall, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, pp. 2, pp. 267-268.

Park, S 2005, "The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders" by M Mason, Global Environmental Politics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 130-131.

Other

Park, S 2004, "Norm Diffusion Within International Government Organisations: A Case Study of the World Bank Group", PhD. The University of Sydney.

COMMENTARY

Interviews

Park, S 2012 "Analysts Say UN Security Council Seat Delivers Bang for Buck", The World Today, Program, ABC Ratio National, 19 October 2012, available online at http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2012/s3614156.htm.

Park, S 2012 "Security Council", ABC Midday Report, News Television Program, 19 October 2012, available online at http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?series=2306963#/view/1018378.