Lecturer - International Relations
BA (Hons), Monash University. PhD, University of Melbourne
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Arts Building |
| Room Reference | 521 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1062 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2864 |
| Matt.Killingsworth@utas.edu.au |
Jean Monnet Thesis Prize, 2007: recognition of excellence for theses produced at postgraduate level in the fields of European and European Integration studies.
A. F. Davies Prize, 2007: awarded to the best research paper published in a refereed journal in a given year in the in the disciplines of Political Science and Sociology (see publications for detail).
Australian European University Institute Fellowship (Postgraduate), 2004: funding for three months research at European University Institute, Florence.
Dr Matt Killingsworth is a Lecturer in International Relations in the Politics and International Relations Program at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely on opposition and dissent in Communist Eastern Europe and justice in post-Communist Eastern Europe (lustration). He is currently researching issues pertaining to the laws of war and international criminal justice. In 2013 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Matt is a regular contributor to national and international media including The Conversation and the ABC.
HIR101 Introduction to International Relations
HIR2/304 Order, Violence and Justice
HIR311 Advanced Seminar in International Relations
HPP2/315 American Politics
HSA420 Politics of International Relations
Order, Violence and Justice (REGS Funding, 2013) - The changing relationship(s) between political order, violence and international law and justice, and how this should be best understood in the context of ongoing external, internal and transnational changes to the contemporary state.
Civil Society in Communist Eastern Europe: Opposition and Dissent in Totalitarian Regimes (Chelmsford: European Consortium of Political Research Press, 2012).
Refereed Publications
‘Understanding Order and Violence in the post-Soviet space: the Chechen and Russo-Georgian Wars’, Global Change, Peace & Security, Vol.24, No.2, 2012, pp.219-233.
with Carol Strong, ‘Stalin the Charismatic Leader: Explaining the Cult of Personality as a Legitimation Technique’, Politics, Religion and Ideology, Vol.12, No.4, 2011, pp.391-411.
with Stephan Auer and Gosia Klatt, ‘Where does Poland Fit in Europe?: How Political Memory influences Polish MEPs perceptions of Poland’s place in Europe’, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 2010, pp. 358–375.
‘Lustration after Totalitarianism: Poland’s attempts to Reconcile with its Communist Past’, Communist and Post Communist Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 275-284.
‘Lustration and Legitimacy’, Global Society, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 71-90.
‘The transformation of war? New and old conflicts in the former USSR’ in M. Sussex (ed.), Conflict in the Former USSR, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp.172-194.
‘Old and New Wars’ in M. Beeson and N. Bisley (eds.), Issues in Twenty-first Century World Politics (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), pp. 125-135.
Commissioned articles
‘Niềm tin và ngờ vực trong xã hội cộng sản’ (Trust and Distrust in a Communist Society), BBC World Service – Vietnam, available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/forum/2012/11/121118_czechoslovakia_dissidents.shtml ‘The International Criminal Court – A Ten Year Retrospective’, Law Letter – Journal of the Law Society of Tasmania, 118, Summer 2012, pp.36-38.
Weekly radio segment on 936 ABC Hobart and Northern Tasmania discussing the week in international politics
Annual presentation for Tasmania Leaders Programme on ‘Global Governance’ (http://www.tasmanianleaders.org.au/)
Editorial Committe, Global Change, Peace and Security