Dr Benjamin MacQueen
Tel: + 61 3 9903 4599
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Email: Ben.MacQueen@arts.monash.edu.au
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Dr Benjamin MacQueen is a Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. He holds a BA (Hons) from LaTrobe University and a PhD from Deakin University in Political Science and International Relations. His research interests include the Theory and Practice of Conflict Resolution, Politics and Society in the Middle East and North Africa, International Relations of the Middle East, International Relations Theory, US and Australian Foreign and Security Policy, the United Nations and Islamic Politics. He has previously served as an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
Dr MacQueen currently teaches:
PLT2650/3650 Terrorism and Violence in Global Politics
PLT4319 Wars of Recognition (with Waleed Aly)
PLT4469 Conflict Resolution and Islam in the Middle East
Publications
Books
Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Lebanon and Algeria (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2009)
Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah (London: Routledge, 2008) with Shahram Akbarzadeh
Islam and the Question of Reform: Critical Voices from Muslim Communities (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008) with Kylie Baxter and Rebecca Barlow
Refereed Articles
‘Democracy Promotion and the Maintenance of Autocracy in the Arab World’ Global Change, Peace and Security, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2009
‘US-Arab Relations in the Era of Democracy Promotion’, National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies Research Paper, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008
‘Iraq and the Limitations of American Foreign Policy in the Middle East’ Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2007
‘Civil War, Islamic Politics, and Conflict Resolution in the Arab-Islamic World’, in Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/conference/proceedings/MacQueen-B-ASAA2004.pdf
Book Chapters
‘Electoral Law Reform and the Potential for Post-Confessional Politics in Lebanon’ in David Wright-Neville & Anna Halafoff (eds) Social and Cultural Violence in the Twenty First Century: Globalisation's New Challenge (London: Edward Elgar, 2009)
‘Framing the debate on Islam and Human Rights Freedom’ in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Benjamin MacQueen (eds) Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah (London: Routledge, 2008) with Shahram Akbarzadeh
‘Human Rights in Iraq: Gender Equality and Religious Freedom’ in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Benjamin MacQueen (eds) Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah (London: Routledge, 2008) with Shahram Akbarzadeh
‘The Reluctant Partnership between the Muslim Brotherhood and Human Rights NGOs in Egypt’ in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Benjamin MacQueen (eds)Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah (London: Routledge, 2008)
‘Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na`im and the Hermeneutics of Reform in Islam’ in Benjamin MacQueen, Kylie Baxter & Rebecca Barlow (eds) Islam and the Question of Reform: Critical Voices from Muslim Communities (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2008)
‘Islamism in Algeria and America’s Global Campaign’ in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Fethi Mansouri (eds) Islam, Human Security & Xenophobia,Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)
‘Australia and North Africa: the Missing Link?’ in Fethi Mansouri (ed.)Australia and the Middle East: A Frontline Relationship (London: I.B.Taurus, 2006)
Conference Papers
‘Changing Notions of Culture in Conflict Resolution and its Implications for Inter-Faith Dialogue’, Globalisation for the Common Good: From the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific – Arc of Conflict or Dialogue of Civilisations and Regions?, Melbourne, 30 June-4 July, 2008
‘Abdullahi an-Na`im and the Hermeneutics of Reform in Islam’, Paper presented at the New Directions: Contemporary Muslim Thinkers and the Question of Reform, Monash Caulfield, 1 November 2006
‘Confessional Politics, Nation-building and the Role of the Media in Lebanon’, Paper presented at the Islamic Culture(s), Nation-building and the Media: Contemporary Issues, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, 22-23September 2006
‘Islamism in Algeria and America’s Global Campaign’, Paper presented at the Islam, Human Security and Xenophobia International Conference, Melbourne, 25-26 November 2005
‘Civil War, Islamic Politics, and Conflict Resolution in the Arab-Islamic World’, Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Australian National University, Canberra, 29 June-2 July 2004
‘A Comparative Analysis – Civil Society in the Middle East and South East Asia’, Paper presented at the Workshop to promote Islamic-Western Dialogues on Governance Values (I-WDGV), Jakarta, 18-21 September 2003
‘The Nationalisation of Islamist Movements in the Arab World: Egypt, Syria, Sudan, and Algeria’, Paper presented at the Australasian Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (AMESA), University of Melbourne, 20-21 August 2000
Media
Dr MacQueen is a regular media commentator. He has written for The Age and Herald-Sun newspapers and appears frequently on ABC TV and Radio, SBS TV and Radio, Radio Singapore International, 3AW Melbourne, 3RRRMelbourne, 2GB Sydney, 2SER Sydney, Radio Adelaide and Triple J Radio Australia.