Professor Joanne Wallis
Professor
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide.
Joanne is the author or editor of nine books, including Constitution making during State building (CUP 2014), Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands (MUP 2017), and Girt by Sea: Reimagining Australia's Security (with Bec Strating, forthcoming).
Joanne is the chief investigator of the Regional Perspectives Project with researchers based in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It is funded under a collaborative research agreement with the Defence Science and Technology Group.
She is also the chief investigator of a Defence Strategic Policy Grant analysing the potential of a networked security architecture in the Pacific Islands, and of another Defence Strategic Policy Grant analysing how tools of statecraft are used in the Pacific Islands region.
Finally, she is chief investigator of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project analysing the operation of the Australia-New Zealand alliance in the Pacific Islands.
She has previously conducted Australian Research Council Discovery Projects on the impact of political reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific and state-building in Melanesia.
Joanne is editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. She is on the editorial boards of Peacebuilding, and Global Studies Quarterly, and the international editorial board of The Round Table. She was previously on the editorial advisory committee of Asia Policy. Between 2019 and 2021 she was an Associate Editor of Peacebuilding.
Joanne is Research Program Director of the Security in the Pacific Islands program at the Stretton Institute for Public Policy. She is a member of the Advisory Group of AP4D (the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy, and Defence Dialogue). She has been a visiting scholar at the Australian Civil Military Centre and regularly briefs government agencies, appears before parliamentary committees, and participates in international strategic dialogues.
Joanne completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Poynton Cambridge Australia scholar. Joanne then spent more than eight years in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. She has also completed Masters degrees in Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne and prior to that was a lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). She is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia.
Joanne has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies at the University of South Carolina; a Visiting Scholar at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at the Australian National University; an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne; and a Visiting Scholar the East-West Center in Honolulu.
Joanne has also taught on Australia’s strategic and foreign policy at the Australian War College, and in professional education programs for the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Department of Home Affairs. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and has received a National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Personal website: https://www.joannewallis.com/
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Koro, M., McNeill, H., Ivarature, H., & Wallis, J. (2023). Tā, Vā, and Lā: Re-imagining the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands. Political Geography, 105, 102931.
2023 Wallis, J. (2023). How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?. COOPERATION AND CONFLICT, 1-19.
2023 Wallis, J. (2023). The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’. Political Geography, 106, 102935-1-102935-10.
Scopus1 WoS12023 Travouillon, K., Lemay-Hébert, N., & Wallis, J. (2023). An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence. Cooperation and Conflict, 1-14.
2023 Wallis, J., Koro, M., & O’Dwyer, C. (2023). The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?. Pacific Review, 28 pages.
2023 Wallis, J., Mcneill, H., Batley, J., & Powles, A. (2023). Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands: architecture, complex, community, or something else?. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 23(2), 263-296.
Scopus4 WoS32022 Wallis, J., Ireland, A., Robinson, I., & Turner, A. (2022). Framing China in the Pacific Islands. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 76(5), 1-24.
Scopus4 WoS42022 Strating, R., & Wallis, J. (2022). Maritime sovereignty and territorialisation: Comparing the Pacific Islands and South China Sea. Marine Policy, 141, 1-8.
Scopus2 WoS22022 Strating, R., Guilfoyle, D., Ratuva, S., & Wallis, J. (2022). Commentary: China in the Maritime Pacific. Marine Policy, 141, 4 pages.
2021 Wallis, J., & McNeill, H. (2021). The implications of COVID-19 for security in the Pacific Islands. Round Table, 110(2), 203-216.
Scopus12021 Wallis, J. (2021). It’s the Little Things: The Role of International Interveners in the Social (re)Construction of the International Peace Architecture. Global Society, 35(4), 456-478.
Scopus1 WoS12021 Wallis, J., & Neves, G. (2021). Evaluating the legacy of state-building in timor-leste. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 9(1), 19-40.
Scopus12021 Wallis, J. (2021). Contradictions in Australia's Pacific Islands discourse. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 75(5), 487-506.
Scopus10 WoS112021 Wallis, J., & Powles, A. (2021). Burden-sharing: the US, Australia and New Zealand alliances in the Pacific islands. International Affairs, 97(4), 1045-1065.
Scopus4 WoS52020 Wallis, J., & Batley, J. (2020). How does the ‘Pacific’ fit into the ‘Indo-Pacific’? The changing geopolitics of the Pacific Islands. Security Challenges, 16(1), 2-10. 2020 Wallis, J. (2020). Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners. Cooperation and Conflict, 55(4), 479-496.
Scopus5 WoS52020 Wallis, J. (2020). Is It Time for Australia to Adopt a “Free and Open” Middle-Power Foreign Policy?. Asia Policy, 15(4), 7-20.
Scopus22020 Wallis, J., Reeves, J., Chinoy, S. R., & Sambhi, N. (2020). A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities for Engagement. Asia Policy, 15(4), 1-6.
Scopus52020 Reeves, J., & Wallis, J. (2020). A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities for Engagement Introduction. ASIA POLICY, 15(4), 2-6. 2020 Wallis, J. (2020). Is It Time for Australia to Adopt a "Free and Open" Middle-Power Foreign Policy?. ASIA POLICY, 15(4), 7-20.
WoS22019 Wallis, J., & Kent, L. (2019). Special issue on ‘reconceiving civil society and transitional justice: lessons from asia and the pacific’. Global Change, Peace and Security, 31(2), 129-138.
WoS22019 Wallis, J. (2019). The role of ‘uncivil’ society in transitional justice: Evidence from bougainville and timor-leste. Global Change, Peace and Security, 31(2), 159-179.
Scopus3 WoS12019 Wallis, J. E. (2019). 'Cut and paste' constitution-making in timor-leste. Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 7(2), 333-358.
Scopus1 WoS42018 Forsyth, M., Kent, L., Dinnen, S., Wallis, J., & Bose, S. (2018). Hybridity in peacebuilding and development: a critical approach. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2(4), 407-421.
2017 Jeffery, R., Kent, L., & Wallis, J. (2017). Reconceiving the roles of religious civil society organizations in transitional justice: evidence from the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Bougainville. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 11(3), 378-399.
Scopus5 WoS82017 Wallis, J. (2017). Is 'good enough' peacebuilding good enough? The potential and pitfalls of the local turn in peacebuilding in Timor-Leste. Pacific Review, 30(2), 251-269.
Scopus17 WoS122017 Wallis, J., & Richmond, O. (2017). From constructivist to critical engagements with peacebuilding: implications for hybrid peace. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2(4), 422-445.
2016 Wallis, J. (2016). How important is participatory constitution-making? Lessons from Timor-Leste and Bougainville. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 54(3), 362-386.
Scopus5 WoS62016 Wallis, J., Jeffery, R., & Kent, L. (2016). Political reconciliation in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville: the dark side of hybridity. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70(2), 159-178.
Scopus38 WoS352016 Wallis, J., & Wesley, M. (2016). Unipolar Anxieties: Australia's Melanesia Policy after the Age of Intervention. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 3(1), 26-37.
Scopus4 WoS42016 Wallis, J., & Dalsgaard, S. (2016). Money, manipulation and misunderstanding on Manus Island. Journal of Pacific History, 51(3), 301-329.
Scopus13 WoS92016 Wallis, J. (2016). The South Pacific in the 2016 Defence White Paper: Anxiety, Ambivalence and Ambiguity. SECURITY CHALLENGES, 12(1), 187-189. 2015 Wallis, J. (2015). The south pacific: ‘arc of instability’ or ‘arc of opportunity’?. Global Change, Peace and Security, 27(1), 39-53.
Scopus9 WoS112014 Wallis, J. (2014). Papua New Guinea: New Opportunities and Declining Australian Influence?. SECURITY CHALLENGES, 10(2), 115-135.
WoS22013 Wallis, J. (2013). What role can decentralisation play in state-building? Lessons from Timor-Leste and Bougainville. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 51(4), 424-446.
Scopus11 WoS72013 Wallis, J. (2013). Nation-Building, Autonomy Arrangements, and Deferred Referendums: Unresolved Questions from Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19(3), 310-332.
Scopus8 WoS72013 Wallis, J. (2013). Victors, Villains and Victims: Capitalizing on Memory in Timor-Leste. Ethnopolitics, 12(2), 133-160.
Scopus13 WoS132012 Wallis, J. (2012). Building a liberal-local hybrid peace and state in Bougainville. Pacific Review, 25(5), 613-635.
Scopus14 WoS112012 Wallis, J. (2012). A liberal-local hybrid peace project in action? the increasing engagement between the local and liberal in Timor-Leste. Review of International Studies, 38(4), 735-761.
Scopus30 WoS212012 Wallis, J. (2012). Ten Years of Peace: Assessing Bougainville's Progress and Prospects. Round Table, 101(1), 29-40.
Scopus142010 Wallis, J. (2010). 'Friendly islands' in an unfriendly system: Examining the process of Tonga's WTO accession. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 51(3), 262-277.
Scopus15 WoS122010 Martin, G., Williams, A., Baldacchino, G., Chan, S., Saunders, C., Clegg, P., & Wallis, J. (2010). Book Reviews. The Round Table, 99(407), 211-225.
2010 Mitchell, A., & Wallis, J. (2010). ‘Pacific Pause: The Rhetoric of Special & Differential Treatment, the Reality of WTO Accession’. Wisconsin International Law Journal, 27(4), 663-706. 2009 Mitchell, A. D., & Wallis, J. E. (2009). Pacific Pause: The Rhetoric of Special & Differential Treatment, the Reality of WTO Accession. SSRN Electronic Journal, 27(4), 663-706.
2008 Wallis, J. (2008). Transnationalism and the Development of the Deterritorialised Tongan Nation-State. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 8(3), 408-432.
Scopus5 WoS42008 Wallis, J. (2008). Small States in a globalised world: resilience as a response to vulnerability?. Melbourne Journal of Politics, 33, 3-47. 2006 Wallis, J. (2006). A ‘helpem fren’ in need: cooperative intervention and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Security Challenges, 2(2), 81-98. 2006 Wallis, J. (2006). A 'helpem fren' in need ... Evaluating the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. SECURITY CHALLENGES, 2(2), 81-98.
WoS2- Wallis, J. (n.d.). The Pacific: from "Arc of Instability" to "Arc of Responsibility" and then to "Arc of Opportunity"?. SECURITY CHALLENGES, 8(4), 1-12.
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Books
Year Citation 2020 Wallis, J., & Kent, L. (2020). Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice Lessons from Asia and the Pacific. 2019 Cronin, C., Kent, L., & Wallis, J. (2019). Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific. J. Wallis (Ed.), ANU Press. 2019 Cronin, C., Kent, L., & Wallis, J. (2019). Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific. J. Wallis (Ed.), ANU Press. 2018 Kent, L., Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S., Bose, S., & Wallis, J. (2018). Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development: A Critical and Reflexive Approach. L. Kent, M. Forsyth, S. Dinnen, J. Wallis, & S. Bose (Eds.), Routledge. 2018 Wallis, J., Kent, L., Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S., & Bose, S. (Eds.) (2018). Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations. Canberra: ANU Press.
2018 Wallis, J., Kent, L., Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S., & Bose, S. (Eds.) (2018). Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations. Canberra: ANU Press.
2017 Wallis, J. (2017). Pacific Power? Australia’s strategy in the Pacific Islands. Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Melbourne University Press. 2016 Wallis, J., & Carr, A. (2016). Asia-Pacific Security An Introduction. Asia-Pacific Security. 2014 Wallis, J. (2014). Constitution making during State building. Cambridge University Press.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2021 Wallis, J. (2021). The social construction of peace. In O. Richmond, & G. Visoka (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation (pp. 77-90). United States of America: Oxford University Press.
Scopus22021 Wallis, J. (2021). Strategic Competition and the Pacific Islands. In L. Kuok, & T. Huxley (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021: Key Developments and Trends (pp. 115-134). Oxfordshire, England, UK: Routledge.
Scopus12019 Wallis, J. (2019). Constitution making and state building. In D. Landau, & H. Lerner (Eds.), Comparative Constitution Making (pp. 278-301). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Scopus12019 Kent, L., Wallis, J., & Cronin, C. (2019). Introduction: Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific’. In L. Kent, J. Wallis, & C. Cronin (Eds.), Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 1-20). Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.
2019 Wallis, J., Kent, L., Wallis, J., & Cronin, C. (2019). The role played by reconciliation in social reconstruction in Bougainville. In L. Kent, J. Wallis, & C. Cronin (Eds.), Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 157-181). Canberra: ANU Press. 2019 Wallis, J., Kent, L., Wallis, J., & Cronin, C. (2019). The role played by reconciliation in social reconstruction in Bougainville. In L. Kent, J. Wallis, & C. Cronin (Eds.), Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 157-181). Canberra: ANU Press. 2019 Wallis, J. (2019). Timor-Leste in a rich country, but also a poor one: the effect and effectiveness of public transfer schemes. In A. McWilliam, & M. Leach (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste (1 ed., pp. 124-135). Abingdon: Routledge.
Scopus32018 Kent, L., Bose, S., Wallis, J., Dinnen, S., & Forsyth, M. (2018). Introduction. In J. Wallis, L. Kent, M. Forsyth, S. Dinnen, & S. Bose (Eds.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (pp. 1-17). Canberra, ACT: ANU Press.
2018 Kent, L., Bose, S., Wallis, J., Dinnen, S., & Forsyth, M. (2018). Introduction. In J. Wallis, L. Kent, M. Forsyth, S. Dinnen, & S. Bose (Eds.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (pp. 1-17). Canberra, ACT: ANU Press.
2018 Wallis, J. (2018). Is there still a place for liberal peacebuilding?. In J. Wallis, L. Kent, M. Forsyth, S. Dinnen, & S. Bose (Eds.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (pp. 83-98). Canberra, ACT: ANU Press.
2018 Wallis, J. (2018). Is there still a place for liberal peacebuilding?. In J. Wallis, L. Kent, M. Forsyth, S. Dinnen, & S. Bose (Eds.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (pp. 83-98). Canberra, ACT: ANU Press.
2016 Wallis, J., & Carr, A. (2016). An Introduction to Asia-Pacific Security. In J. Wallis, & A. Carr (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2016 Wallis, J., & Carr, A. (2016). An Introduction to Asia-Pacific Security. In J. Wallis, & A. Carr (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2016 Wallis, J. (2016). Why are Small States a Security Concern in the Asia-Pacific?. In J. Wallis, & A. Carr (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2016 Wallis, J. (2016). Why are Small States a Security Concern in the Asia-Pacific?. In J. Wallis, & A. Carr (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2016 Wallis, J. (2016). Is Oceania a regional security complex?. In A. Holtz (Ed.), A Region in Transition: Politics and Power in the Pacific Island Countries (pp. 17-46). Saarbrücken: Universaar. 2015 Wallis, J., Noronha, J. M. D. R. C., & Viana, J. J. M. S. (2015). East Timorese expectations and experiences of INTERFET. In J. Blaxland (Ed.), East Timor Intervention: A Retrospective on INTERFET. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2015 Wallis, J. (2015). Assessing the Implementation and Impact of Timor-Leste's Cash Payment Schemes. In S. Ingram, L. Kent, & A. McWilliam (Eds.), Unknown Book (pp. 235-249). AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV.
WoS52014 Wallis, J. (2014). Australia and the South Pacific. In B. Taylor, P. Dean, & S. Fruehling (Eds.), Australia’s Defence: Towards a New Era? (pp. 140-164). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2014 Wallis, J. (2014). Australia in the Pacific. In D. Baldino, A. Carr, & A. Langlois (Eds.), Australian Foreign Policy: Controversies and Debates (pp. 174-190). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2011 Mitchell, A. D., & Wallis, J. E. (2011). Pacific Countries in the WTO: Accession and Accommodation. 2011 Mitchell, A. D., & Wallis, J. (2011). Pacific Countries in the WTO. In Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (pp. 179-222). Cambridge University Press.
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Internet Publications
Year Citation 2022 Koro, M., & Wallis, J. (2022). Australia’s Pacific Policy Under the ALP: Heading in the Right Direction?. Australian Institute of International Affairs. 2022 Wallis, J., & Koro, M. (2022). Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help China achieve its broader aims. The Conversation. 2022 Middleby, S., Wallis, J., & Powles, A. (2022). AUKUS and Australia’s relations in the Pacific. East Asia Forum. 2022 Middleby, S., Powles, A., & Wallis, J. (2022). AUKUS adds ambiguity to the Australia-New Zealand alliance. Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Defence, Science and Technology Group, ‘Regional Perspectives project’ ($2.95 million; 2022-2025).
ARC DP200101994, ‘Pacific Partners? The operation and endurance of the Australia-New Zealand alliance in the Pacific Islands’ ($204,879; 2020-2024) with Anna Powles (Massey University).
Defence Strategic Policy Grant, ‘State-craftiness: mapping competition, cooperation, and coercion in the Pacific Islands’ ($368,814; 2022-2024) with Henrietta McNeill, Alan Tidwell, and Gordon Peake (Georgetown University).
Defence Strategic Policy Grant, ‘A networked security architecture in the Pacific: Implications for Australia’ ($255,610; 2020-2022) with Anna Powles (Massey University), James Batley (ANU), Alan Tidwell (Georgetown University), and Hidekazu Sakai (Kansai Gaidai University).
ARC DP160104692, ‘Doing state-building better? Practising hybridity in Melanesia’ ($156,345; 2016-21).
ARC DP140102388, ‘The impact of political reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific’ ($173,328; 2014-18), with Renee Jeffery (Griffith University) and Lia Kent (ANU).
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Principal Supervisor Enhanced strategic engagement: Exploring the proliferation of strategic partnerships in Australia’s Indo-Pacific foreign policy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jack Butcher 2022 Principal Supervisor Reassessing China’s Identity: Interaction with Oceania over the Last Five Decades Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Geyi Xie 2022 Principal Supervisor Understanding Security & Justice Approaches in the Pacific: Homegrown perspectives Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Maima Koro 2022 Principal Supervisor Pacific Island Countries in International Relations: A case study of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time William Burenbeiya Waqavakatoga 2022 Principal Supervisor Reimaging Public Diplomacy in the Pacific Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Priestley Habru 2021 Principal Supervisor All the way with the USA? The effect of the US-Australia alliance on Australian Foreign Policy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Jason Cherry-Smith 2021 Principal Supervisor International influence and domestic political agency in Solomon Islands Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Edward Acton-Cavanough 2021 Principal Supervisor The dynamics Pacific regionalism: How power operates within the Pacific Islands Forum Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Solstice Middleby
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