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THE RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDIES 588/1963

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

NON-TECH~ICAL SU~WiARY

The Department is engaged on various aspects of the study of world politics. It recognises a primary duty to gather knowledge on those matters in Asia and the Pacific which concern Australia, and so has built up a system of Asian Press Archives, in which cuttings from the principal English-lanquage newspapers are held; it also encourages its students to work on foreign policie in Asia and on international institutions which affect Asia, such as E.C.A.F.E. Of its four Research Fellows , three are engaged entirely, and one partly, on research into Asian topics. Its Professorial Fellow is largely engaged in the same general field.

However, there are wider considerations which the Department must also keep within its view. The systematic study of international relations calls for theoretical formulations which cannot be confined to Asia, but must in­clude the general behaviour of sovereign states; in the past, members of the Department have given much attention to this, and they will continue to do so. Again, the connections which both Australia and the Asian states have with the rest of the world, through international organisations and alliances, call for study of such bodies as the U.N., the Commonwealch of Nations and S.E.A.T.O. Above all, the effects of the Cold War , and of such significant developments as the rift between the Soviet Union and Communist China, must be kept under observation if a coherent view of world politics is to be obtained, and if the Department (which is the only one of its kind in Australia) i s to extend the special kind of knowledge which it was established to foster .

Professor

Professorial Fellow

Research Fellows

Visiting Fellows

Research Assistants

Staff

J. D. B. Miller, M. Ec . (from October)

J. A. Modelski, B. Sc . (Econ.), Ph.D.

R. G. Boyd , B.A. D. c. S. Sissons , M.A. D. Hindley, M.A. (to June) u. Paranjpe, M.A., Ph .D. (from March) T. B. Millar , M.A., Ph .D. (from June)

J. W. Burton, B.A., Ph .D. (from March) A. Watt , Kt ., C.B.E., M.A. (from July) M. Leifer , B. A. , Ph .D. (January-March)

Rima Rathausky , B. A. Elizabeth Macfarlane B.A. J. B. Bennett, B.A. (from April)

Professor Miller arrived in Australia in November and took up his duties towards the end of that month. Dr . Modelski was appointed Professorial Fellow in September, acting as Head of the Department until Professor Miller arrived, Sir Alan Watt took up a visiting Fellowship in July, while Dr. Burton continued for a further year in that capacity. Dr. Millar arrived in December from New York and London. Dr . Mahajani (Paranjpe) took up her Research Fellowship in March. Mr . Bennett was appointed Research Assistant.

Student and Teaching Actiyities

Six students were engaged on research for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Mr. G. P. King continued his study of disarmament and arms control, and completed his field trip abroad . Mr. J. A. A. Stockwin went to Japan to gather material on Japanese parties and foreign policy. Mr. L. P. Singh

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visited Bangkok for field work on E.C.A.F.E. Mr~ J. L. Vellut spent the last part of the year in Manila 1 working on Philippines foreign policy. Mr. H. R. Khan arrived in July to begin work on the making of I-akistani Foreign Policy and Mr. L. J. Kavic in October to study Indian defence policy.

Work in progress seminars were held in the first and third terms.

Professor Bernard Fall, of Howard University, Washington , visited the Department on his way home from Cambodia. He gave a seminar and a public lecture, in addition to three talks to official audiences in Canberra,

Research

Dr. Modelski continued his work on the politics of South-East Asia, seeing to the press his study of the 1961 Geneva Conference on Laos, com­pleting a chapter on 11The Viet-Minh Complex", for a volume on Communism and internal war sponsored by the Center for International Stud ies, Princeton University, and preparing for a full-scale study of the region.

Dr. Burton went abroad during the y8ar to study non-alignment, and attended the Pugwash conferences in London and Cambridge.

Sir Alan Watt worked on certain aspects of Australian diplomatic experience.

Mr. Sissons began in November a stay in Japan of twelve months, during which he will continue his study of the working of the Japanese Diet since 1945.

Dr . Mahajani prepared the groundwork for her study of competing foreign aid programmes in ·south-East Asia and began a field trip to Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and, it was hoped , North Viet-Nam.

Dr. Millar continued with the work on the Commonwealth at the U.N., which he had begun at Columbia University and continued in London.

Mr. R. G. Boyd prepared for the press his study of Indian Foreign Policy, before leaving to spend a year at Notre Dame University.

Examination of the list of publications will show that during the year the Department saw the appearance of two of its special contributions to its subject, the first two Working Papers , and the volume on S.E.A.T.O., which is the first full-length study of that body to appear anywhere, and which had been in preparation for some year ~ .

The first working paper was prepared by Ore Michael Leifer, of the University of Adelaide, who spent three months as Visiting Fellow.

During July Professor Mill er obtained leave from his post at the University of Leicester to visit Canberra and meet members of the School and the Department. He spoke to the Canberra branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

In July and August the Department sponsored a series of lectures on World Tensions, organised by the Canberra branch of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, two of these being given by Dr. Mahajani and Dr. Burton.

In co-operation with the Department of Far Eastern History, a discussic group was organised on Contemporary China. Seven meetings were held.

The International Affairs Discussion Group met throughout the year at University House, with Mr. Vellut in the Chair.

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Publications

BOYD , R. G.

11Corrnnunist China and S. E. A. T.0 . 11, in G. Modelski (ed . ) , S . E.A . T.0, & Six

Studies , F . w. Cheshire , Melbourne, pp . 168- 201 .

Communis t China ' s Foreign Poli~, Frederick A. Praeger , New York , and Hawthorn Pres s , Melbourne .

BRISSENDEN , Mrs . R.

11 India , Neutralism and S . E. A. T.011, in G. Modelski , (ed . ) , S, E.A . T, O.s Six

Studies , F . w. Cheshire , Melbourne , pp . 205- 250 .

BUR TON , J • W.

"Rights and Obligations of Nonalignment 11, Australian Outlook , XVI , iii , pp.

292- 303 .

"Peace Theory s Preconditions of Disarmament , Alfred A. Knopf , New York , 201 pp .

HINDLEY , D.

"President Sukarno and the Communistss The Politics of Domestication" , American Political Science Review , Dec .

"The Indonesian Communists and the Peasants", Problems of Communism, Nov-Dec .

"The Indonesian Communists and the C. P. S. U. Twenty-Second Congress , ~ Survey , II , i , pp . 20- 7.

LEIFER , M.

"The Cambodian Opposition", Asian Survey , II, ii , pp . 11 - 15.

Cambodia and Neutrality , Dept . of International Relations Working Paper No . 1 51 PP•

MILLER, J . D. B.

11Poli tical Implications of the European Economic Community" , Australian Out look , XVI , i ii, pp. 229- 245 .

MODE LSKI , G.

International Conference for the Settlement of the Laotian Question 1961- 2 , Dept. of International Relations Working Paper No . 2 , 156 pp .

"S, E. A. T .o. s Its Function and Organisation 11, "The Asian States ' Participation

in S . E. A. T. 0 . 11, in G. Modelski (ed . ), S . E.A . T.O. c Six Studies , F . w. Cheshire~

Melbourne, pp . 3 - 45 , 88- 163 .

A Theory of Foreign Policy, Praeger , New York, 152pp.

"Comparative International Systems", World Politics , XN , iv, pp . 662- 674.

SINGH , L. P.

"The Thai-Cambodian Temple Dispute" , Asian Survey, II, viii, pp . 23 - 6 .

"E . C.A. F . E.' s Eighteenth Session in Tokyo", Australia ' s Neighbours , 3rd series , Nos . 126-7.

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SINGH, L. P.

"Basis of Indonesia's claim to West New Guinea" , The Australian Quarterly, xxxiv, i, pp.7-16.

SISSONS, D. C. S.

"Japan 1945 to 1962", The British Survey, Main Series No. 157, 20 pp.

STOCKWIN, J. A. A.

"' Po!iitive Neutrality ' - The Foreign Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party", Asian Survey, II, ix, pp.33-41.

VELLUT, J. L.

"Foreign Policy Issues in the Philippine Elections" , Australia's Neighbours, 3rd series, Nos . 123-4.