Dr Chris Wilson

I hold a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and a Master of Arts from the Australian National University. I also hold postgraduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Otago University (NZ).

Senior Lecturer

In: Politics and International Relations » Social Sciences » Faculty of Arts

Biography

My research and teaching is focussed on violent conflict and terrorism. I have had a number of professional roles in conflict analysis and prevention with the World Bank, UNDP and other international agencies. I am the coordinator of the Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies (MCTS) and the Conflict, Terrorism and Peace group (CTAP).

Research | Current

Ethnic and religious conflict, insurgency and civil war
Terrorism, extremism and radicalisation
Authoritarianism, democratisation
Illiberal democracy and oligarchy in Asia
South East Asian Politics
South Asian Politics

My current research projects lie within the broad topic of violent conflict in Asia. I am currently engaged in a book project on the causes of migration-related tension and violence.

In addition to the publications listed below, the following publications are forthcoming:

"Military Anxiety and Genocide: Explaining Campaigns of Annihilation (and their absence)", Journal of Genocide Research, 2019.

"Illiberal Peacebuilding in India and Indonesia: the dangers of the hybrid approach", in Yuji Uesugi (ed), Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.

Teaching | Current

Politics 770: Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
Politics 709: Political Extremism
Politics 356 (not offered in 2019)

Postgraduate supervision

I am very interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following topics, among others:

Ethnic and religious conflict, insurgency and civil war
Terrorism
Authoritarianism, democratisation
Illiberal democracy and oligarchy in Asia
South East Asian Politics
South Asian Politics

Responsibilities

I am the coordinator of the Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies (MCTS). I am available to discuss our programme with interested students.

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Wilson, C., & Akhtar, S. (2019). Repression, co-optation and insurgency: Pakistan’s FATA, Southern Thailand and Papua, Indonesia. Third World Quarterly, 40 (4), 710-726. 10.1080/01436597.2018.1557012
Wilson, C. (2019). Military Anxiety and Genocide: Explaining Campaigns of Annihilation (and their absence). Journal of Genocide Research10.1080/14623528.2019.1592806
Wilson, C. (2018). Ethnic, religious, and regional conflict. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia (pp. 118-128). 10.4324/9781315628837
Wilson, C. J. (2017). Conflict and anti-minority violence. The state of conflict and violence in Asia (pp. 208-217). Bangkok: The Asia Foundation.
Wilson, C. J. (2017). Ideological motives in spoiler violence: Postconflict Assam, Northeast India. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23 (3), 280-296. 10.1080/13537113.2017.1344765
Wilson, C. (2016). Ongoing rebel violence in autonomous regions: Assam, Northeast India. Pacific Affairs, 89 (2), 287-307. 10.5509/2016892287
Wilson, C. J. (2015). Illiberal Democracy and Violent Conflict in Contemporary Indonesia. Democratization10.1080/13510347.2014.949680
Wilson, C. J. (2015). Imposing Internal Order on States. In E. Kavalski (Ed.) Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations (pp. 311-328). United Kingdom: Ashgate. Related URL.