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Dr Morten Pedersen

Dr Morten Pedersen

Senior Lecturer
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Morten Pedersen is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy) and a former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Myanmar. In addition to teaching and research, he has worked as a policy advisor on Myanmar politics and development affairs for the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Australian government, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, among others. His major publications include Promoting Human Rights in Burma: A Critique of Western Sanctions Policies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008); with Anna Magnusson, A Good Office: Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar (International Peace Institute, 2012); and with David Kinley, Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Pariah States (Ashgate, 2013). He was the 2013 winner of the Boyer Prize for the best original article in the Australian Journal of International Affairs - "How to promote human rights in the world's most repressive states: Lessons from Myanmar", Vol. 67, No. 2, 2013.

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Phone
+61 2 5114 5072
E-mail
m.pedersen@adfa.edu.au
Location
Building 29, Room 206
  • Books | 2014
    Caballero-Anthony M; Clapp P; Dalpino C; Denmark AM; Miller M; Pedersen MB, 2014, Myanmar's growing regional role
    Books | 2013
    Pedersen MB; Kinley D; Sidoti C; Gentile P; Kent A; Horsey R; Ford J; Negin J; Nolan J; van Heerden A; Cockayne J; Darrow M, 2013, Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States, Pedersen MB; Kinley D, (ed.), Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham
    Books | 2012
    Magnusson A; Pedersen M, 2012, A Good Office? Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar, International Peace Institute, New York
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Pedersen MB, 2023, 'Democracy and Human Rights under Military Rule: Three Iterations of Myanmar’s National Security State', in Myanmar Politics, Economy and Society: Second Edition, pp. 75 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003386063-7
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Pedersen MB, 2023, 'The 2021 Military Coup: Causes and Consequences', in Chambers J; Dunford MR (ed.), Myanmar in Crisis Living with the Pandemic and the Coup, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 41 - 67
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Pedersen M, 2022, 'MYANMAR IN 2021: A State Torn Apart', in Southeast Asian Affairs 2022, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, pp. 225 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/9789815011036-015
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Pedersen MB, 2020, 'Democracy and human rights: in the shadow of Myanmar's national security state', in Simpson A; Farrelly N (ed.), Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society, Routledge, Milton Park, pp. 74 - 86, https://www.routledge.com/Myanmar-Politics-Economy-and-Society/Simpson-Farrelly/p/book/9780367110444
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pedersen M, 2017, 'Democracy and Human Rights', in Simpson A; Farrelly N; Holliday I (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar, Routledge, Milton Park, pp. 371 - 390, https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-Myanmar/Simpson-Farrelly-Holliday/p/book/9781138820777
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pedersen M, 2017, 'Three Generations of International Human Rights Governance', in Global Insecurity Futures of Global Chaos and Governance, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 293 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95145-1
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pedersen MB, 2017, 'Democracy and human rights', in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar, pp. 371 - 380
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pedersen MB, 2017, 'Three Generations of International Human Rights Governance', in Global Insecurity, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 293 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95145-1_16
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Pedersen MB, 2014, 'Myanmar's Democratic Opening: The Process and Prospect of Reform', in Cheesman N; Farrelly N; Wilson T (ed.), Debating Democratization in Myanmar, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 19 - 40, http://www.iseas.edu.sg/news_content.cfm?news_id=7AA08869-D11B-9143-02D9A6F26731BC9B
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Pedersen MB, 2014, 'Myanmar's Foreign Policy in a Time of Transition', in Miller M; Denmark AM (ed.), Myanmar's Growing Regional Role, The National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, pp. 53 - 73, http://www.nbr.org/publications/issue.aspx?id=300
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Pedersen MB; Kinley D, 2013, 'Introducing Principled Engagement', in Pedersen MB; Kinsley D (ed.), Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, pp. 1 - 12
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Pedersen MB, 2013, 'The Theoretical Case for Principled Engagement', in Pedersen MB; Kinley D (ed.), Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, pp. 13 - 38
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Pedersen M, 2012, 'Rethinking International Assistance to Myanmar in a Time of Transition', in Cheeseman N; Skidmore M; Wilson T (ed.), Myanmar's Transition: Openings, Obstacles, and Opportunities, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 271 - 286
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Pedersen MB, 2006, 'A comprehensive international approach to political and economic development in Burma/Myanmar', in Myanmars Long Road to National Reconciliation, pp. 276 - 290
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Pedersen MB, 2005, 'The challenges of transition in Myanmar', in Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives, pp. 161 - 183
  • Journal articles | 2021
    Pedersen MB, 2021, 'The Rohingya crisis, Myanmar, and R2P 'Black holes'', Global Responsibility to Protect, 13, pp. 349 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-984X-13020009
    Journal articles | 2019
    Pedersen MB, 2019, 'The ICC, the Rohingya and the limitations of retributive justice', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 73, pp. 9 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2018.1548562
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Myanmar in 2018: New Democracy Hangs in the Balance',
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'The Roots of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis',
    Journal articles | 2015
    Pedersen MB, 2015, 'Myanmar in 2014: Tacking against the Wind', Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/saa/summary/v2015/2015.pedersen.html
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pedersen M, 2013, 'How to promote human rights in the world's most repressive states: Lessons from Myanmar', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67, pp. 190 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2013
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pedersen MB, 2013, 'Myanmar’s armed forces return to the barracks, for now', Asian Currents, pp. 2 - 4
    Journal articles | 2011
    Pedersen MB, 2011, 'The politics of Burma's "democratic" transition prospects for change and options for democrats', Critical Asian Studies, 43, pp. 49 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2011.537851
    Journal articles | 2008
    Pedersen MB, 2008, 'Burma's ethnic minorities: Charting their own path to peace', Critical Asian Studies, 40, pp. 45 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672710801959133