Australia’s pre-eminent centre for research and postgraduate training on the Asia-Pacific region. Priority areas of the School are Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Research includes strategic and defence studies, archaeology, the impact of globalisation on local societies and cultures, urbanisation, economics, politic and international relations, history, anthropology, linguistics, geography, gender and development.
Part of the Australian National Univiersity (ANU)
WWW supported research/products include:
(a) Coombsweb: internet directories for Asian studies materials, with sections on: Demography & Population Studies; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Vietnam
(b) State, Society & Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Project: civil society in the independent states of the southwest Pacific.
(c) Land Management Project (LMP): role of land managers in sustaining production from land, with special focus on Papua New Guinea (with bibliographical database)
(d) Indonesia Project: research and graduate training on the economy of Indonesia.
(e) Economics Department: recent Working Papers in Trade and Development available online