Dr Roland Rich
BA (Syd U); LLB (Syd U); M Int Law (ANU); PhD (ANU)
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) 180116
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- International Relations 160607
- Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
- Other Studies In Human Society 1699
- Communication And Media Studies 2001
Biography
Dr. Rich served in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade including posts as Legal Adviser, Assistant Secretary for International Organisations and Ambassador to Laos. He also served in Paris, Rangoon and Manila. Dr Rich joined the Australian National University in 1998 as Foundation Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions. He has also taught at the Australian Defence University and was a research Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC. He is currently the Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund and concurrently Office-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships.
Publications
- Rich, R 2013, Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia: Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA and Canada.
- Rich, R 2011, 'Designing the DPD: Indonesia's Regional Representative Council', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 263-273.
- Rich R. 2011 "An Appreciation of the Human Rights Situation in Southeast Asia" in Croissant, Aurel and Bünte, Marco (eds.), The Crisis of Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-189
- Rich, R 2010, 'Situating the UN democracy fund', Global Governance, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 423-434.
- Rich R., 2008, ‘Development Assistance and the Hollow Sovereignty of the Weak’ in Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur (eds), The End of Westphalia? Re-envisioning Sovereignty, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK
- Rich R. 2007 'Hercules or Sisyphus? Building capacity in the Asia-Pacific', Australian Strategic Policy Institute Insight No33/2007, Canberra
- Rich R. 2007 Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder
- Rich R. ‘Solidarity Rights Give Way to Solidifying Rights’. Dialogue – Journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Volume 21 3/2002, pp. 25-33
- Rich R. 1993 ‘Recognition of States: the Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union’. European Journal of International Law 4 No. 1 (March): 36-65
- Rich, R 2006, 'Introduction: Analysing and Categorising Political Parties in the Pacific Islands', in Roland Rich, Luke Hambly & Michael G.Morgan (ed.), Political Parties in the Pacific Islands, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 1-27.
- Rich, R, Hambly, L & Morgan, M, eds, 2006, Political Parties in the Pacific Islands, Pandanus Books, Canberra.
- Rich, R & Newman, E 2004, 'Introduction: Approaching democratization policy', in Edward Neman and Roland Rich (ed.), The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality, Institute of Samoan Studies, Tokyo, pp. 3-31.
- Rich, R 2004, 'Applying Conditionality to Development Assistance', Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 321-334.
- Rich, R 2004, 'Crafting security council mandates', in Edward Neman and Roland Rich (ed.), The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality, Institute of Samoan Studies, Tokyo, pp. 62-85.
- Rich, R, ed., 2004, The UN Role In Promoting Democracy Between Ideals and Reality, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.
- Rich, R 2001, 'Democracy in the Balance', in Julian Weiss (ed.), Tiger�s Roar: Asia�s Recovery and its Impact, M E Sharpe Inc, New York, pp. 149-156.
- Rich, R 2001, 'Bringing Democracy into International Law', Journal of Democracy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 20-34.
- Rich, R 2000, 'Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia', in Williams, L; Rich, R (ed.), Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 16-36.
