Key Projects and Events in 2024

• Research collaboration between SASS and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), People’s Republic of China. SASS lead is Michael Connors.

• An international research workshop collaboration between 4 institutions: SASS/Monash University Malaysia; Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the  National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia; IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia; and Wageningen University, Netherlands. SASS lead is Helen Nesadurai.

• An international co-authored book project collaboration under contract with Bloomsbury focused on the theme of embracing/containing China. SASS lead is Marek Rutkowski

• A research monograph by Marek Rutkowski that looks at the role of middle power peacekeepers in Indochina in the period leading up to the Vietnam War providing a new perspective to the conflict usually viewed as a big power proxy war.

• Funded by a Monash-Warwick Strategic Alliance Education grant, phase 2 of this project involves 33 students from Monash University’s Australia and Malaysia campuses and Warwick University working collaboratively to produce articles on the project theme for the award-winning Progress on Political Economy website. SASS leads are Helen Nesadurai and Marek Rutkowski.

SASS students from the Monash-Warwick Alliance funded project on Global Groupwork and one of their project mentors relaxing at dinner following the initial workshop.

Seven of the 13 student participants from the Monash-Warwick Alliance funded project on Global Groupwork with SASS Head of School and two SASS project mentors.

Project team from Monash Australia, Warwick University and Monash Malaysia at the final project meeting held at University of Warwick and via Zoom, June 2024.