Dr Sarah Teitt
Director
Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Researcher biography
Dr Sarah Teitt is an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. The Asia Pacific Centre for R2P is a joint initiative of the University of Queensland and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deepen knowledge and advance policy on R2P and mass atrocities prevention in the Asia Pacific region. Sarah's research focusses on Chinese foreign policy in relation to international intervention, peacebuilding and humanitarian emergency response, and on the politics of genocide and mass atrocity prevention in the Asia Pacific region.
Sarah was a founding member of the APR2P Centre's management team in 2008. From 2009-mid 2012 she served as the Centre's Outreach Director, and was responsible for managing the Centre's regional partnerships, as well as developing and delivering training and education programs on mass atrocities prevention for government, civil society and academic institutions in the Asia Pacific region.
Publications
Book Chapters
Teitt, Sarah (2020). China’s developmental peace and North Korea’s security challenges. China–North Korea relations: between development and security. (pp. 25-49) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00010
Teitt, Sarah (2020). Resistance and accommodation in China’s approach toward R2P. Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Contestation and Consolidation. (pp. 149-167) edited by Charles T. Hunt and Phil Orchard. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429352430-8
Teitt, Sarah and Jones, Catherine (2020). Conclusion. China–North Korea relations. (pp. 197-206) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00019
Jones, Catherine and Teitt, Sarah (2020). Introduction: China and North Korea: between development and security. China–North Korea relations. (pp. 1-23) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00008
Teitt, Sarah (2017). Sovereignty as responsibility. The globalization of international society. (pp. 325-344) edited by Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198793427.003.0017
Teitt, Sarah (2016). Asia Pacific and South Asia. The Oxford handbook of the responsibility to protect. (pp. 373-390) edited by Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Teitt, Sarah (2016). Is human security a solution?. Asia-Pacific security: an introduction. (pp. 241-258) edited by Joanne Wallis and Andrew Carr. Washington, DC, United States: Georgetown University Press.
Teitt, Sarah (2014). China and the international human rights regime. The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific. (pp. 108-110) edited by Charles Hawkesly and Nichole Georgiou. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press.
Davies, Sara E., Nwokora, Zim, Stamnes, Eli and Teitt, Sarah (2013). Introduction: The responsibility to protect: a principle for the women, peace and security agenda?. Responsibility to protect and women, peace and security: aligning the protection agendas. (pp. 1-6) edited by Sara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah Teitt. Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.
Teitt, Sarah (2012). Paper tiger or platform for action? South Asia and the responsibility to protect. The Routledge handbook of the responsibility to protect. (pp. 197-215) edited by W. Andy Wright and Frazer Egerton. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Teitt, Sarah (2012). The responsibility to protect and China's peacekeeping policy. China’s evolving approach to peacekeeping. (pp. 56-70) edited by Marc Lanteigne and Miwa Hirono. London, U.K.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203718803
Journal Articles
Teitt, Sarah (2024). R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18 (2), 191-196. doi: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2318899
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2021). Legitimacy and centrality under threat: the case for an ASEAN response to human rights violations against the Rohingya. Asian Politics and Policy, 13 (4), 471-492. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12602
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2020). The Rohingya crisis: can ASEAN salvage its credibility?. Survival, 62 (5), 41-54. doi: 10.1080/00396338.2020.1819642
Teitt, Sarah (2017). The responsibility to protect and China's U.N. peacekeeping policy. The Journal of International Studies, 4, 68-84.
Dunne, Tim and Teitt, Sarah (2015). Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect. Global Governance, 21 (3), 371-391. doi: 10.1163/19426720-02103003
Davies, Sara E., Teitt, Sarah and Nwokora, Zim (2014). Bridging the gap: early warning, gender and the responsibility to protect. Cooperation and Conflict, 50 (2), 228-249. doi: 10.1177/0010836714545689
Davies, Sara E., Nackers, Kimberly and Teitt, Sarah (2014). Women, peace and security as an ASEAN priority. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68 (3), 333-355. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2014.902030
Davies, Sara E. and Teitt, Sarah (2012). Engendering the responsibility to protect: women and the prevention of mass atrocities. Global Responsibility to Protect, 4 (2), 198-222. doi: 10.1163/187598412X639700
Teitt, Sarah (2011). The responsibility to protect and China's peacekeeping policy. International Peacekeeping, 18 (3), 298-312. doi: 10.1080/13533312.2011.563085
Teitt, S. (2009). Assessing Polemics, Principles and Practices: China and the Responsibility to Protect. Global Responsibility to Protect, 1 (2), 208-236. doi: 10.1163/187598409X424306
Conference Papers
Teitt, Sarah E. (2013). Humanity and hegemony in China's humanitarian discourse. ISA San Francisco 2013: 54th International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3-6 April, 2013.
Teitt, Sarah (2011). Promoting the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Northeast Asia: Institutional limitations, ad hoc opportunities. International Studies Association Annual Convention ISA 2011, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 March 2011.
Teitt, Sarah (2011). The paradox of Chinese peacekeeping. International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 March 2011.
Thesis
Teitt, Sarah (2015). The responsibility to protect and responsible power: explaining China’s acquiescence to international intervention to protect Libyan populations in 2011. PhD Thesis, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.790
Generic Documents
Teitt, Sarah (2023). Controversies over R2P are not just controversies over R2P. Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Teitt, Sarah (2020). Empowering women and centralising gender in atrocity prevention: insights from the Asia Pacific Partnership for Atrocity Prevention. Fresh Perspectives, European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah (2017). Reading Room: Sovereignty and Responsibility to Protect. Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Teitt, Sarah (2014). Women's empowerment and atrocity prevention. e-international relations.
Newspaper Articles
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2020, 06 17). ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis The Interpreter 1-1.
Teitt, Sarah (2014, 11 11). Women's empowerment and atrocity prevention e-International Relations
Research Reports
Teitt, Sarah , Bronitt, Simon , Dunn, Michelle , Duriesmith, David , Zarrabi, Behnaz , Vogel, Lauren , Ryan, Luisa and Zimmerman, Shannon (2020). Training: Gender and Preventing Violent Extremism in Asia: Participant Workbook. Bangkok, Thailand: UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
Sarah Teitt (2019). Centralising gender in atrocity prevention. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah (2016). China and the responsibility to protect. R2P IDEAS in Brief Brisbane, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah (2014). China and the International Humanitarian Order. R2P Ideas in Brief Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah (2014). ASEAN and the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict and Humanitarian Situations: From Commitment to Practical Action in Southeast Asia . R2P Ideas in Brief Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah and Davies, Sara (2013). Realizing commitments to women, peace and security in Southeast Asia. R2P Ideas in Brief Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Teitt, Sarah (2008). China and the responsibility to protect. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.