Richard Tanter

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Richard Tanter is Professorial Fellow in International Relations in the Research and Innovation Portfolio, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute. He is Acting Director of  Nautilus Institute in Australia, hosted by RMIT, where he  coordinates Austral Peace and Security Net and the Australian Forces Abroad briefing book series, and the Climate Change and Reframing Australia-Indonesia Security project. Within Nautilus he has particular responsibilities for the Global Problem Solving project, and is closely involved in the East Asian Science and Security Collaborative.

From 1989-2003 Richard was Professor of International Relations in the School of Environmental and Social Studies at Kyoto Seika University in Japan. After returning from Japan in 2003, he was Senior Curriculum Consultant to Deakin University for its Security Studies graduate program at the Australian Defence College's Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies. 

Richard has worked on peace, security and environment issues in East and Southeast Asia as analyst, policy advocate and activist since the 1970s. His research has focussed on militarisation and peace issues in Indonesia, Korea and Japan, as well as the wider politics of East and Southeast Asia. In East Asia he has written on questions of Japanese security policy, its intersection with US policy and relations with China, the issues of Japanese theatre missile defence and electronic intelligence capabilities, and the possibilities of Japanese acquisition of nuclear weapons. Richard ha

His most recent books on East Timor are Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999, [co-edited with Gerry Van Klinken and Desmond Ball] and Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited with Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom].

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Contact details

richard.tanter@rmit.edu.au
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Languages

Interview languages: English, Japanese

Reading languages: Indonesian, French

Education

Monash University, (Politics), Ph.D - Intelligence Agencies and Third World Militarization: A Case Study of Indonesia, 1992.

New School for Social Research, M.A. (Sociology), 1982.

University of Melbourne - B.A. Hons (Political Science), 1971.

 30 May 2008