Associate ProfessorThomas Wilkins

Dr Wilkins is currently Post Graduate Course Work Coordinator for the Dept. of Government & International Relations (GIR), and Program Director for the Master of International Relations (MIR) degree. He is Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dalyell Academic Mentor, 2021.

Dr Wilkins has taught a range of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses at a range of institutions (Birmingham, Salford, University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo, Meiji University, Keio University, and University of San Francisco).

At USYD he offers the following UOS:

CISS 6019: War & Strategy

CISS 2015: Alliances & Coalition Warfare

CISS 6002: Strategy & Security in the Asia-Pacific

CISS 6001: New Security Challenges

GOVT 3670: Australian Foreign and Security Policy

GOVT 2225: International Security in the C21st

Dr Wilkins is available to supervise Higher Degree by Research (HDR: MRes, MPhil & PhD) on topics related to: Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific Security or Strategy, including regional/state foreign/security policies, plus IR theory; especially alliances and multilateralism.

His current Doctoral Supervisees are:

• Ms. Jiye Kim ‘The Security Alignment Practice of Indo-Pacific Powers: China and India’
• Mr. Daniel Gomez, ‘Twists and Turns in America's foreign policy in the South China Sea’.
• Mr. George Boone: ‘A Tale of Two Incentives: How opportunism and restraint collectively shape regional aspirants' behavior?’.