Mr Stewart Firth
BA (Hons) (Sydney), MA (Hons) (ANU), D.Phil (Oxford)
Visiting Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Regional Analysis And Development 120505
- International Relations 160607
- Pacific History (Excl. New Zealand And Maori) 210313
- Postcolonial Studies 200211
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
Research interests
My recent research has focused on the small states and territories of the Pacific Islands. I am at present investigating the historical legacy of the colonial period in the Pacific Islands, especially the legacy of the state itself.
Biography
I have been interested in the Pacific Islands since teaching at the University of Papua New Guinea in its early years. I also taught at the University of Hawaii, and from 1998 to 2004 I was Professor of Politics at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. In between came a couple of decades teaching politics and international relations at Macquarie University. I co-edited The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: a coup to end all coups?, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2009, and wrote Australia in International Politics: an introduction to Australian foreign policy, 3rd edn, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2011. I teach POLS2055 Pacific Politics.
Publications
- Firth, S 2013, 'Australia's policy towards coup-prone and military regimes in the Asia-Pacific: Thailand, Fiji and Burma', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 357-372.
- Firth, S 2013, 'New Developments in the International Relations of the Pacific Islands', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 286-293.
- Firth, S 2012, 'Reflections on Fiji since Independence', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, vol. 101, no. 6, pp. 575-583.
- Firth, S 2011, 'Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste', in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (ed.), Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 147-164.
- Firth, S 2011, 'Culture and context in the teaching of pacific history and politics', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 207-213.
- Firth, S. 2011. Australia in International Politics: an introduction to Australian foreign policy, 3rd edn. Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
- Fraenkel, J & Firth, S 2009, 'Fiji's Coup Syndrome', in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, Brij Lal (ed.), The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to end all Coups?, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 449 - 458.
- Fraenkel, J & Firth, S 2009, 'The Fiji Military and Ethno-nationalism: Analysing the Paradox', in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, Brij Lal (ed.), The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to end all Coups?, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 117 - 136.
- Fraenkel, J & Firth, S 2009, 'The Enigmas of Fiji's good Governance Coup', in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, Brij Lal (ed.), The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to end all Coups?, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 3-17.
- Fraenkel, J, Firth, S & Lal, B, eds, 2009, The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to end all Coups?, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Firth, S 2008, 'The Contemporary Pacific', in Europa Publications Series (ed.), The Far East and Australasia 2008, Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. XX.
- Firth, S 2008, 'The New Regionalism and its contradictions', in Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka (ed.), Intervention and state-building in the Pacific - the legitimacy of 'cooperative intervention', Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 119-134.
- Dinnen, S & Firth, S, eds, 2008, Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Firth, S 2008, Engaging our neighbours: Towards a new relationship between Australia and the Pacific Islands, Independant Task Force.
- Fraenkel, J & Firth, S 2007, 'The cycles of party politics', in Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth (ed.), From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 64-77.
- Firth, S & Fraenkel, J 2007, 'Fiji's perpetual legitimacy crisis', in Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth (ed.), From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. xx-xxviii.
- Fraenkel, J & Firth, S, eds, 2007, From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Firth, S 2007, 'Pacific Islands Trade, Labor, and Security in an Era of Globalization', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 111-135.
- Firth, S & Fraenkel, J 2007, 'Changing calculus and shifting visions', in Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth (ed.), From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 2-10.
- Firth, S, ed., 2006, Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands, ANU ePress, Australia.
- Firth, S 2006, ed. Globalisation in the Pacific Islands, , ANU E Press.
- Firth, S 2000, 'The Pacific Islands and the Globalization Agenda', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 178-192.
- Firth, S 2000, 'Decolonization', in Robert Borofsky (ed.), Remembrance of Pacific pasts: an invitation to remake history, University of Hawaii Press, United States, pp. 314-332.
