Paths to primacy: How rising powers win regional domination
Dr Phillips is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Strategy in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on war, strategy and international order, with a particular focus on Great Power rivalry and asymmetric violence as drivers of transformative change in world politics. His works include From Hollywood to Bollywood? Recasting Australia’s Indo/Pacific Strategic Geography (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2016) and How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From 2024-2028, he will be an Australia Research Council Future Fellow, investigating how, when and why rising powers have won regional domination in Asia from 1500CE-present.
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About School Research Seminar Series
POLSIS Research Seminar Series
Semester 1 2026
All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)
Date | Event | Name | Title |
27 February | R2P/ Research Seminar | Jeff Sizemore | Atrocity Prevention in a Tough World |
6 March | Portfolio Event | Sarah Percy, UQ | Excellence in RHD Supervision |
13 March | Seminar | Haroro Ingram, UQ | The Promises of Revolutionary Violence |
20 March | Seminar | Sarah Percy, UQ | The History of War in Seven Weapons |
27 March | Seminar | Kristine Bowman, Michigan SU and UQ | Free Speech on US University Campuses |
17 April | Seminar | Sofia Ammassari, Griffith | Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right |
24 April | RHD Showcase | Aly Tkachenko; Adarsh Badri; Guidora (Julie) Kopong | Direct Action Tactics as Ecological Security?; Elite Discourses of Belonging in British India; Kinship Structures and Gendered Distribution of Resources in Timor-Leste and Indonesia. |
1 May | Seminar | Marshal Beier, McMaster University | Making and Unmaking Righteous War: The Work that Childhood Does |
8 May | IE/ Research Seminar | Madeleine Pugin, Griffith University | UNDRIP and Urban Aboriginal Cultural Recognition in South East Queensland |
15 May | Seminar | Owen Worth, University of Limerick | Rosa Luxemburg and the lost critique of IR |
22 May | Seminar | Jiye Kim, UQ | The Future of the South China Sea: Disputes and Negotiations |
29 May | Streams Meetings | Shahar Hameiri DB Subedi Nick Heron & Adam Hannah | International Relations Peace and Conflict Studies Political Science & Public Policy |
For further information contact Professor Matt McDonald, Director of Research: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au.