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Richard Tanter
Richard Tanter is Professor of International Relations in the Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Director of the Nautilus Institute at RMIT. At Nautilus Richard coordinates the Austral Peace and Security Net and the Australian Forces Abroad briefing book series, and the Climate Change and Security, Reframing Australia-Indonesia Security and Indonesian Nuclear Power Proposals projects. His current research interests include extended nuclear deterrence, climate change and security, nuclear power developments in Southeast Asia, and Australian defence policy.
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.
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]; Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited with Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom]; and About face: Japan’s remilitarisation, Austral Special Report 09-02S, 19 March 2009 [original publication by CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Tokyo, November 2006; released for general circulation, courtesy CLSA.]
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Contact details
Phone: 03-9925-3170
Email: 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.
12 March 2009