Dr Thomas S. Wilkins
BA (Hons) MA (Hons) PhD Birm
Dr Thomas Wilkins specialises in Security Studies and Strategic Studies, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. He wrote his PhD thesis on the topic of Coalition Warfare at the University of Birmingham and as an Exchange Visitor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Before joining the University of Sydney he was a Lecturer in Military History/Security at the Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, and held Post Doctoral Fellowships at the University of San Francisco, the East West Center (Honolulu) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (Amsterdam). In addition to contemporary International Relations and Security Thomas Wilkins retains an active interest the field of international history, where he regularly contributes to Military History journals.
Recent Publications
Wilkins T 2009 forthcoming 'Building Regional Security Architecture: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from an Organisational Theories Perspective' in State, Society and International Relations in Asia, ed. M Parvezi, UvA Press, Amsterdam.
Wilkins T 2009 forthcoming 'Book Review: "Strategic Studies: A Reader" edited by Thomas Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo', Journal of Strategic Studies.
Wilkins T 2009 forthcoming 'Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies', Journal of Military History.
Wilkins T 2009 'Review Articles: ‘Anatomy of a Military Disaster: The Fall of Singapore 1942´, (Reviewed works: Singapore Burning by Colin Smith; The Battle for Singapore by Peter Thompson; Britain´s Greatest Defeat by Alan Warren; and Singapore Diary: The Hidden Journal Of Captain R. M. Horner)', Journal of Military History, vol.73:1, pp. 221-230.
Wilkins T 2008 'Book Review: “Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy’ by Amitai Etzioni', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.31:4.
Wilkins T 2008 'How the West will cope with the rise of Asia (A review Essay of Kishore Mahbubani, ‘The New Asian Hemisphere´)', IIAS Newsletter, vol.49.
Wilkins T 2008 'Review Article: ‘The Battle for Japan 1944-45´ (A ‘Critique´ of Max Hastings´ ‘Nemesis´)', The Japan Policy Research Institute, vol. Critique Vol. XIV:1.
Wilkins T 2008 'Review Articles: ‘“Graveyard of Armies’: A History of Conflict in Afghanistan´ (Reviewed works: ‘Afghanistan´ by Amalendu Misra and ‘The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan´ by Jeffery J. Roberts)', Journal of International Peace Keeping, vol.15:2.
Wilkins T 2008 'Review Articles: ‘Forgotten History? The Collapse of British Asia 1941-49´ (Reviewed works: ‘Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia´ and ‘Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945´ by Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper)', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.86:345, pp. 101-3.
Wilkins T 2008 'Russo-Chinese Strategic Partnership: A New Form of Security Cooperation? ', Contemporary Security Policy, vol.29:2, pp. 358-83
Wilkins T 2008 'Three´s a Crowd?: Declining US Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific (A Review Essay of Joseph Camilleri et al. (eds.) ‘Asia-Pacific Geopolitics´)', IIAS Newsletter, vol.47.
Wilkins T 2008 'Book Review: "The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation-Building" by Choong-Nam Kim', Journal of Korean Studies, vol.32.
Wilkins T 2008 'Review Articles: 'Analytical Eclecticism in Theorizing Japanese Security Policy', (Reviewed works: Japan Rising by Kenneth B. Pyle, Rethinking Japanese Security by Peter J. Katzenstein, and Securing Japan by Richard J. Samuels)', Asian Security, vol. 4:3, pp. 1-6.
Wilkins T 2007 'Trilateralism and Cooperation on Asymmetrical Threats: Terrorism, WMD and Regional Instability - (by invitation, with honorarium)' in Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle, ed. William Tow and et al, Routledge-Curzon, London, United Kingdom pp.164-77.
Wilkins T and Melillo E 2007 'The “Pacific Century’ Revisited', Pacific Rim Report, vol.48.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Asian Security Reassessed’ by Stephen Hoadley and Juergen Rueland', Pacific Affairs, vol.80:1.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945’ by Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper', War in History, vol.15:2.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Japan´s Security Policy and The ASEAN Regional Forum’ by Takeshi Yuzawa', Pacific Affairs, vol.80:2.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalisation and Peace Studies’ by Johan Galtung', Journal of International Peace Keeping, vol.14:5.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Together We Stand: America, Britain, and the Forging of an Alliance’ by James Holland ', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research.
Wilkins T 2007 'Book Review: “Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention’ by Jonathan Renshon', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.30:6.
Wilkins T 2007 'Towards a “Trilateral Alliance?’ - Understanding the Role of Expediency and Values in American-Japanese-Australian Relations', Asian Security, vol.3:3, pp. 251-78.
Wilkins T 2006 'Analyzing Coalition Warfare from an Intra-Alliance Politics Perspective: The Normandy Campaign 1944', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol.29:6, pp. 1121-50.
Wilkins T 2006 'Book Review: ‘The Defense and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942´ by Brian P. Farrell', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research.
Wilkins T 2005 'Book Review: “Slim: Master of War’ by Robert Lyman', Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.83:333.
Wilkins T 2004 'Coalition Formation and Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Case of an American-Japanese-Australian Combination', Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, vol.14, pp. 153-70.
Wilkins T 2004 'Coalition Warfare: A New Framework for Analysis Required?', World Defense Systems:12.