UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIA, SANDIEGO 1998 3 1822 02293 1950 Annual Report IR/PSesearch School of Pacific and Asian Studies Stacks AS 722 A85 A14 v . 1998 Australian National University . Research School of Pacific Studies Annual report IR / PS Stacks UC San Diego - 99 - 04 : Received on 27 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 098908809 INT'L RELATIONS/PACIFIC STUDIES LIDRA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , SAN DIEGU 9500 GILMAN DRIVE , 0514 100gLA JOLLA , CA 92093 -0514 ANNUAL REPORT , UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIASANDIEGO 3 1822 02293 1950 RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CANBERRA ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA TELEPHONE – 02 6249 2183 (OR 61 2 6249 2183 ) Fax - 02 6257 1893 (OR 61 2 6257 1893 ) PRODUCTION OF THIS REPORT DRAWS ON THE SKILLS AND PATIENCE OF MANY . APART FROM APPRECIATING THE ENERGY OF OUR ACADEMICS WHOSE RESEARCH GENERATES ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES INITIALLY , THE PRODUCTION TEAM THANKS THE CAST OF HUNDREDS WHO WROTE OR COLLECTED THE MATERIAL NEEDED , AND THOSE WHO PROVIDED FIELDWORK AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS. SPECIAL THANKS ARE DUE TO ANN BULLER (DSE ) , GABRIELLE CAMERON (PIR ) , MARION WEEKS (PAH ) , Li ZHU (ECON ) AND JAN BRETHERTON (DS) , FOR COORDINATING THE EFFORT WITHIN THEIR AREAS, AND DARREN BOYD (COOMBS PHOTOGRAPHY ) WHOSE PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR ON PAGES 19 , 35 , 47 , 50 , 51 AND 76 . PRODUCTION TEAM: ANN ANDREWS (COOMBS ACADEMIC PUBLISHING) EDITOR, LAYOUTDESIGN Jo BUSHBY ( A N H PUBLICATIONS) TYPESETTER Bob COOPER (COOMBS PHOTOGRAPHY) ALL THINGS PHOTOGRAPHIC (PARTICULARLY THE PORTRAITS ON PAGES 3, 5, 6, 18, 33 AND 75), COVER DESIGNS PRINTER : NATIONAL CAPITAL PRINTING, CANBERRA ISSN 1442 - 1852 CONTENTS 3 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies 15 Director 's Section 33 Division of Economics 75 Division of Pacific and Asian History 95 Division of Politics and International Relations 117 Division of Society and Environment 151 List of Acronyms used in this Report 157 Index ---- -- - - - Research Schoolof Pacific and Asian Studies Directors , , , Professor Merle Ricklefs BA Col( Coll ) PhD ( C nell' ) FAHA until( August ) , , , , Professor James Fox AB ( Harv ) Blitt DPhil Oxf( ) KNAW Kon( Ned Akademie Associate Director , , Dr Kathryn Robinson BA Syd( ) PhD School Secretaries , Ms Pam Ferrar MSC ANU( ) ( until March ) , Mr Alick Dodd BEC ( Syd ) from( March ) Business Manager , Ms Sue Lawrence acting( until June ) Business and Resources Manager , Ms Peggy Daroesman BA ANU( ) ( from June ) Incorporating : Director ' s Section Professor James Fox , Director Division Economicsof , Professor Ross Garnaut Convener until( November ) , Professor Warrick McKibbin Convener ( from November ) Division of Pacific and Asian History , Professor Tessa Morris Suzuki- Convener Division ofPolitics and International Relations Professor Ben Kerkyliet , Convener Division of Society and Environment , Dr Darrell Tryon Convener http : / / coombs . anu . edu . au RSPAS/ / Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Telephone (02) 6249 2183 Fax (02 ) 6257 1893 CONTENTS W Report of the Director A Commitment to Postgraduate Education School Governance Faculty Board Strategy Committee Research Management Research Advisory Board Administrative Networks Secretary ' s * School Office s Manager ' ** Business and Resources Office vaaonunun ** Information Technology Services * Cartography * Publishing ** Coombs Academic * Coombs Photography * Internet Publications Bureau Staff List Ooooo Report of the Director Professor James J Fox Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Reseach School of Pacific and Asian Studies has entered a new phase in its development . Amid , budgetary problems to its severe the School has moved define priorities and clarify its focus . It has also managed to maintain a mutually beneficial balance between its long - standing its critically policy - fundamental research and important oriented contributions to development within the Asia Pacific- region . Work within the School is now clearly focused on three major geographical areas of priority : the , Southwest Pacific Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia . Research on South Asia continues within the , , School but can not without additional funding be given the same priority as other areas of focus . In a period of increasing globalisation and with the growing importance of , , , regional cooperation it would be impractical and unproductive however for the School to draw sharp boundaries around particular regions or subregions . , A considerable reduction in the numbers of both academic and general staff begun in 1997 and , through together in all continued 1998 with great restraint other areas of expenditure has allowed the School to begin to reduce a substantial deficit built up over several years . As , , academic retirements have occurred however the School has been able to replace senior staff with , , more junior staff thus beginning a process of renewal . In 1998 the School made eleven , and a half appointments with most of these at the postdoctoral and research fellow level and across , , , a range of disciplines within the School : Anthropology Economics Human Geography International , , Relations Linguistics Political and Social Change and Resource Management . Of these appoint , ments five were of women . , Through a long but eventually successful process of collegial consultation the School has again , , fashioned a budget of the strictest discipline that it is hoped will further reduce the , , deficit and in the future allow some prospect for an expansion of its present research efforts . , During the year a great deal of effort was put into the creation of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management ( APSEM ) . APSEM was officially established on the 1st of August but the separation of its functions from those of the School was not concluded until the end of the year . The Division of Economics forms the critical link between the two Schools whereas the National Centre for Development Studies and the Australia Japan- Research Centre have now left the to a fully part of . School become APSEM The creation of these new structures offers , possibilities for innovative collaboration some of which has already begun in tendering for outside policy research and training . The School has also continued to strengthen its cooperative links with the Faculty of Asian , , , Studies creating for the coming year a new Masters degree program in Asian Studies that will rely on joint staff teaching and supervision . The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the School a grant of over a half million dollars for a new fellowship program in Southeast Asian studies . The principal objective of the program RSPAS AnnualReport 1998 RSPAS 3 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies will be to provide junior scholars from the United States access to the incomparable resources on Southeast Asia at the ANU . Fellows will be affiliated with the Research School, the Faculty of Asian Studies or some other appropriate part of the University . In 1998 , we formed two new and important centres within the School: The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific headed by Professor Brij Lal and The Centre for the Study of Chinese Southern by Diaspora headed Professor Anthony Reid . The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific will focus all of our diverse activities relating to the , Pacific and will link these activities to others in the University throughout Australia and internation ally . The Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora represents a step forward in work begun by WP Fitzgerald and carried forward by a number of the School ' s distinguished researchers : , , Wang Gungwu Jennifer Cushman Stephen FitzGerald and Jamie Mackie . This Centre will also , coordinate its activities with those of the Faculty of Asian Studies and will have as its Co Head- Dr Craig Reynolds . , , The appointment of a new Business and Resources Manager Peggy Daroesman and a new School , , Secretary Alick Dodd have given the School an outstanding management team . Professor Merle , , , Ricklefs however tendered his resignation as Director of the School in June ceased to act as Director , up as of August and left in early October to take a position as Director of the Institute of Asian Languages and Societies at the University Melbourneof . Professor James Fox succeeded Professor Ricklefs as of August and will serve as interim Director while the University proceeds to seek a new Director . , of a Those retiring at the end of 1998 included Professor Gerard Ward former Director the School , and Dr Michael Young both of whom will continue to work within the School on important research projects . This year was a good year for promotions : Dr Sinclair Dinnen and Dr Andrea Whittaker were , , ; to Dr promoted Dr Meng promoted to Research Fellow Dr Greg Austin Xin and Govinda Rao were ; Fellow and Dr Geoffrey Hope and Dr John Ravenhill were promoted to Professor . , , For the School this has been a productive year but also a difficult one . If one can single out a , is particular concern that has occupied the attention of researchers within this School there no doubt that this has been the continuing financial , political , social and environmental crisis that has been , occurring in the Asian region . Although as researchers we are expected to be clear headed- observers engaged in living working of of us