Queen Mary, University of London

Faculty Member, Politics

Lecturer in International Politics

About

I am a Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.

My research interests revolve around questions of state-society relations, governance, political economy, sovereignty and intervention, particularly in less-developed countries. I use methods of historical sociology, broadly understood, in my work.

I have recently completed a book about the interventions of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Cambodia, East Timor and Burma from the 1960s onwards. Attacking the overwhelming scholarly and journalistic consensus on ASEAN as a group of states that never interferes in any other states' internal affairs, I argue that ASEAN has indeed intervened, both within ASEAN and without, often very seriously and with sometimes devastating consequences. Work drawn from the research for this book has already been published in a number of journals.

I have also written on democratisation and foreign policy in Southeast Asia and on statebuilding in East Timor.

In 2011 I started in earnest work on two new major projects. The first, entitled 'How do economic sanctions (not) work?' is a three year, ESRC-funded research project into how international sanctions affect target countries by conditioning the composition, resources, interests, ideologies and strategies of domestic social forces within those countries.

The second project, which is funded by the Australian Research Council, is a collaborative endeavour with Dr Shahar Hameiri of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. Entitled 'Securitisation and the Governance of Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific', it investigates the way in which transnational, non-traditional security 'threats' are being governed in these regions through the emergence of 'regulatory regionalism', whereby domestic agencies are increasingly being interlinked with and regulated by foreign counterparts or international institutions while being insulated from mechanisms of popular accountability within their own states.

For full information please see my website, www.leejones.tk.

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