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Biography
My current research examines the intersection of regional order building, human rights and governance in Southeast Asia, paying particular regard to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). I examine Southeast Asia through the lens of socialisation, investigating how ASEAN is both a driver of, and arena for, those efforts to diffuse standards.
I am interested in the stories of rights socialisation efforts that have emerged, the success and failure of those efforts and how we can use those stories to better understand what ASEAN is.
I am involved in a project that takes this interest and examines "the new politics of human rights in Southeast Asia”. In this project, spanning multiple articles and a single-authored manuscript, I explain both why ASEAN came to adopt human rights standards and why it has done so in the way that it has.
This project expands my focus on ASEAN to encompass the history of the regional project and the cross over between human and traditional security agendas. The work also interrogates existing accounts of how agents in institutionalised environments change their beliefs in response to normative contestation.
My teaching covers both UG and PG options, including courses on, human rights and regions, conceptual skill-building, human rights and International Relations Theory.
I have extensive experience in designing and running professional training courses. In 2011, I led an AusAID funded course training African Diplomats as part of the Australia Awards for Africa program. In 2012 and again in 2015 I co-ran a course for DFAT graduates.
You can follow me on twitter at twitter.com/drmattdavies and find out more about my work at www.drmathewdavies.com
Current student projects
Chair and Supervisor: Benjamin Day - Good donors and the financial crisis: The new uses of aid policy
Chair and Supervisor: Ruji Auethavornpipat - The ASEAN Security Community and regional identity
Advisor: Kerri Ng - US bases in Japan.
Research interests
Human rights, socialisation, ASEAN, regionalism, norm diffusion, international relations theory.
Available student projects
- ASEAN
- International / Regional organisations
- Human Rights
- Norms and socialisation
- International Relations Theory
Past student projects
Supervisor: Thuy T Do - The debate over East Asian International Relations Theory and its influence on the practice of academics
Researcher's projects
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- International Relations
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Projects
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Assessing and Advancing Civil Society CVE Efforts in Southeast Asia
Ingram, H., Davies, M., Fealy, G. & Rood, S.
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
5/10/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Performances of Trust: Ritualized Diplomacy in Southeast Asian Regionalism
Davies, M., 2022, In: Journal of Global Security Studies. 7, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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How regional organizations respond to human rights: ASEAN’s ritualism in comparative perspective [DUPLICATE a383154xPUB19047]
Davies, M., 2021, In: Journal of Human Rights. 20, 2, p. 245-262Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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How regional organizations respond to human rights: ASEAN's ritualism in comparative perspective
Davies, M., 2021, In: Journal of Human Rights. 20, 2, p. 245-262Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Regional organisations and enduring defective democratic members
Davies, M., 2018, In: Review of International Studies. 44, 1, p. 174-191Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Ritual and Region: The Invention of ASEAN
Davies, M., 2018, 1st Edition ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 88 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book