Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute
International Security, Transnational Risk Assessment and Development Solutions
Researching issues that impact on security and wellbeing in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Australia's security and prosperity are closely linked with those of its regional neighbours and are influenced by our ability to understand, balance and address issues of international security, transnational risk assessment and development solutions. This group offers research and consulting expertise across a range of contemporary and future transnational policy issues. The group will develop marketable applications of its research, appropriate to the needs of industry, government, and communities.
About Us
Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute (FIAPI) brings together 45 specialists from disciplines such as law, international relations, public policy, governance, globalisation, development studies and environmental management whose research and experience are relevant to the ever- changing Asia Pacific region.
They offer research and consulting expertise across a range of contemporary and future policy issues to meet the needs of industry, government and communities.
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Research Teams
The researchers work in five overlapping teams, focussing on:
Capabilities
Their specific expertise includes:
- Political Economy of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
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- International Alliances, Defence Policies and Procurement Regimes
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- Security and Intelligence Systems
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- State and Regional Finance and Monetary Systems
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- Strategic Policies, Defence and Operational Spaces
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- Global Supply Chains and Economic Development
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- Good Governance, Policing and Human Rights
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- Cross Border Growth Regions
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- Ecological Disaster Management
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- Energy Security: Oil and Uranium
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- Military, Law and Human Rights
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- Terrorism and Counter Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
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- Human Rights, Gender, Ethnicity and Religion
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- Ethnicity, Diaspora, Migrations and Security
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Goals and Objectives of FIAPI
Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute (FIAPI) seeks to enhance Flinders University’s position nationally and internationally as a leader in research and research training related to security, justice and development issues that link Australia into the Asia Pacific region. It recognises that knowing ourselves, our communities, our neighbours and our neighbours’ communities, is critical to Australia’s security and prosperity, as well as our neighbours’.
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Context
Australia’s well-being is intrinsically bound up with the complexities of the Asia Pacific region. Strategic and security alliances, migration flows, diaspora networks and various configurations of regional and global economic transactions bind Australia to the fortunes of its neighbours near and far. Promoting research to deepen and broaden our understanding of this rapidly changing region, and Australia’s role in it, is a national priority.
FIAPI gathers Flinders University humanities and social science researchers in multidisciplinary teams to produce innovative research on transnational flows of people, goods, ideas, the policy regimes which govern them, and the impacts, risks and benefits associated with them. We build on existing strengths in social sciences and the humanities at Flinders University, including significant expertise in international relations; applied research on security and legal reform; multidisciplinary capabilities in sustainable ecologies, gender equity, human rights and development; well developed competencies in regional development studies, particularly in Indonesia.
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Objectives
- To promote Flinders University as an externally acknowledged centre of excellence in the internationally-oriented social sciences.
- To facilitate focussed collaboration on research projects between FIAPI members, and facilitate their involvement in research grant applications aimed at traditional and non-traditional funding sources.
- To develop systematic links between Flinders academic researchers and external stakeholders, including policy practitioners in the government sector, the private sector, and the non-profit sector.
- To provide expert advice to government, non-government, and private sector clients on international policy issues as they relate to Asia Pacific.
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Strategies
- Develop an effective communication strategy and research support structure.
- Encourage and support the formation of research projects within FIAPI which enable researchers and research students to find common ground for collaborative research activities, and increase the quality and quantity of research output.
- Invigorate the research culture within the university by providing space, seed funding and administrative and project management support for collective research endeavours lead by FIAPI members.
- Link FIAPI research groups with local, national and international institutions in collaborative projects that address the research needs of the Region.
- Work towards a self-sustainable Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute beyond 2008.
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