Queen Mary University of London
Faculty Member, Politics
Lecturer
About
I am a Lecturer in the Politics Department of Queen Mary University of London, specialising in International Relations.
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.
My current research project investigates 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.
I have also written on democratisation and foreign policy in Southeast Asia and am working on a paper on statebuilding in East Timor.
I plan to continue writing on ASEAN for the forseeable future, but within the next 18 months will be shifting the bulk of my research efforts to a new project on international sanctions.
Contact Information
Politics Department
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS
MSN: leejones_san[at]hotmail.com
Skype: leejones_san
