Associate Professor Andrew Phillips
Chair HDR Milestones Committee
ARC Future Fellow
School of Political Science and International Studies
+61 7 336 53301
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.
Dr Phillips teaching specialties include terrorism and insurgency in world politics, the evolution of the international system, and strategic studies. He also has extensive Professional Military Education (PME) experience in teaching and curriculum design. He has regularly served as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Defence College, teaching into the Australian Command and Staff Course (ACSC) and Defence and Strategic Studies Course (DSSC) – Australia’s two premier post-graduate PME courses for mid and senior-level national security leaders. From January-June 2023, he also served as a Resident Fellow at the Australian War College, where he convened the DSSC’s foundational unit in grand strategy.
Books
Phillips, Andrew (2021). How the East was won: barbarian conquerors, universal conquest and the making of modern Asia. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316343272
Phillips, Andrew and Sharman, J. C. (2020). Outsourcing empire : how company-states made the modern world. Princeton, NJ United States: Princeton University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvss3xd1
Phillips, Andrew and Sharman, J. C. (2015). International order in diversity: war, trade and rule in the Indian Ocean. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316027011
Phillips, Andrew (2011). War, religion and empire: The transformation of international orders. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/cbo9780511761102
Book Chapters
Phillips, Andrew (2023). The peace of Westphalia. The Oxford handbook of history and international relations. (pp. 544-559) edited by Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Christian Reus-Smit and Maja Spanu. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873457.013.36
Phillips, Andrew and Reus-Smit, Christian (2020). Culture and order in world politics. Culture and Order in World Politics. (pp. 23-46) edited by Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108754613.002
Reus-Smit, Christian and Phillips, Andrew (2020). Conclusion. Culture and order in world politics. (pp. 319-328) edited by Andrew Phillps and Christian Reus-Smit. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108754613.015
Phillips, Andrew (2017). International systems. The globalization of international society. (pp. 43-62) edited by Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198793427.003.0003
Phillips, Andrew (2017). Asian incorporation and the collusive dynamics of western “expansion” in the early modern world. Global historical sociology. (pp. 199-220) edited by Julian Go and George Lawson. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316711248.010
Phillips, Andrew (2017). Making empires: hierarchy, conquest and customization. Hierarchies in world politics. (pp. 43-65) edited by Ayşe Zarakol. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108241588.004
Phillips, Andrew (2016). Company sovereigns, private violence, and colonialism. The Routledge handbook of private security studies. (pp. 39-48) edited by Rita Abrahamsen and Anna Leander. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315850986-6
Phillips, Andrew (2016). Company sovereigns, private violence and colonialism. Routledge handbook of private security studies. (pp. 39-48) edited by Anna Leander and Rita Abrahamsen. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge.
Phillips, Andrew (2013). Transnational terrorism. Issues in 21st Century World Politics. (pp. 120-134) edited by Mark Beeson and Nick Bisley. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Phillips, Andrew (2010). How al-Qaeda lost Iraq. Terrorism, security and the power of informal networks. (pp. 133-155) edited by David Martin Jones, Ann Lane and Paul Schulte. Cheltenham U.K.: Edward Elgar.
Phillips, Andrew (2010). Transnational terrorism. Issues in 21st Century World Politics. (pp. 136-148) edited by Mark Beeson and Nick Bisley. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Phillips, Andrew. (2007). Constructivism. International relations theory for the twenty-first century : an introduction. (pp. 60-74) edited by Martin Griffiths. London: Routledge.
Phillips, Andrew and James, Paul (2005). Central Asia: Continuities and Discontinuities. Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism, and State-Terrorism. (pp. 190-202) edited by Paul James and Tom Nairn. London: Pluto Press.
Phillips, Andrew. (2005). Constructivism. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. (pp. 115-126) edited by Martin Griffiths. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Phillips, Andrew and Sharman, J. C. (2024). Anarchy and empire: world-conquerors and international systems. International Studies Quarterly, 68 (4) sqae121. doi: 10.1093/isq/sqae121
Phillips, Andrew (2023). Indigenous foreign policy: the challenges of survivalism before and after the era of Western dominance. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77 (6), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2268029
Phillips, Andrew (2023). International orders before and after the West, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 36 (6), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2023.2274731
Phillips, Andrew (2021). Culture, collective imaginaries and the contested constitution of international societies. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 50 (1), 233-244. doi: 10.1177/03058298211050676
Phillips, Andrew and Sharman, J. C. (2020). Company-states and the creation of the global international system. European Journal of International Relations, 26 (4), 135406612092812-1272. doi: 10.1177/1354066120928127
Phillips, Andrew (2019). Global security hierarchies after 1919. International Relations, 33 (2), 195-212. doi: 10.1177/0047117819840807
Phillips, Andrew (2017). Contesting the Confucian peace: civilization, barbarism and international hierarchy in East Asia. European Journal of International Relations, 24 (4), 740-764. doi: 10.1177/1354066117716265
Phillips, Andrew (2016). The global transformation, multiple early modernities, and international systems change. International Theory, 8 (3), 481-491. doi: 10.1017/S1752971916000166
Phillips, Andrew (2016). Beyond the Bandung Divide: The 1955 Asian-African Conference and its Legacies for International Order. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70 (4), 329-341. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2016.1153600
Phillips, Andrew (2016). Global IR Meets Global History: Sovereignty, Modernity, and the International System’s Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region. International Studies Review, 18 (1), 62-77. doi: 10.1093/isr/viv029
Phillips, Andrew and Hiariej, Eric (2016). Beyond the ‘Bandung divide’? Assessing the scope and limits of Australia–Indonesia security cooperation. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70 (4), 422-440. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2016.1153601
Phillips, Andrew (2015). Issues in Australian foreign policy July to December 2014. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (2), 263-277. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12098
Phillips, Andrew and Sharman, J.C (2015). Explaining Durable Diversity in International Systems: State, Company, and Empire in the Indian Ocean. International Studies Quarterly, 59 (3), 436-448. doi: 10.1111/isqu.12197
Phillips, Andrew (2014). Civilising missions and the rise of international hierarchies in early modern Asia. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 42 (3), 697-717. doi: 10.1177/0305829814535281
Phillips, Andrew (2014). The Islamic State's challenge to international order. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68 (5), 495-498. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2014.947355
Phillips, Andrew (2013). From global transformation to big bang — A response to Buzan and Lawson. International Studies Quarterly, 57 (3), 640-642. doi: 10.1111/isqu.12089
Phillips, Andrew (2013). Australia and the challenges of order-building in the Indian Ocean region. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67 (2), 125-140. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2012.751965
Phillips, Andrew (2013). A dangerous synergy: energy securitization, great power rivalry and strategic stability in the Asian century. Pacific Review, 26 (1), 17-38. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2013.755362
Bisley, Nick and Phillips, Andrew (2013). A rebalance to where?: US strategic geography in Asia. Survival, 55 (5), 95-114. doi: 10.1080/00396338.2013.841811
Phillips, Andrew (2013). The wars on terror, duelling internationalisms and the clash of purposes in a post-unipolar world. International Politics, 50 (1), 77-96. doi: 10.1057/ip.2012.29
Phillips, Andrew (2012). Horsemen of the apocalypse? Jihadist strategy and nuclear instability in South Asia. International Politics, 49 (3), 297-317. doi: 10.1057/ip.2012.1
Phillips, Andrew (2012). Saving civilization from empire: belligerency, pacifism and the two faces of civilization during the Second Opium War. European Journal of International Relations, 18 (1), 5-27. doi: 10.1177/1354066111416020
Phillips, Andrew (2011). From the age of asymmetry to the great reconvergence: Securing order in the Asian century. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65 (1), 94-101. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2011.535604
Phillips, Andrew (2010). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of jihadism - Transnational religious insurgencies and the transformation of international orders. Review of International Studies, 36 (2), 257-280. doi: 10.1017/S0260210510000021
Phillips, Andrew (2009). How al Qaeda lost Iraq. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (1), 64-84. doi: 10.1080/10357710802649840
Phillips, A. (2009). The Anbar Awakening: Can It Be Exported to Afghanistan?. Security Challenges, 5 (3), 27-46.
Phillips, Andrew (2008). Book Review, ‘Empire’ (Herfried Munkler) and ‘Empires’ (Alejandro Colas). Australian Journal of Political Science, 43 (4), 755-756.
Phillips, Andrew (2004). Book Review: Terrorism and Justice By Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe (Eds.). Melbourne Historical Journal, 32, 89-92.
Phillips, Andrew (2003). Review of The History Wars, S. Macintyre & A. Clark, Melbourne, MUP Press, 2003. Melbourne Journal of Politics, 29, 133-134.
Phillips, Andrew and James, Paul (2001). National identity between tradition and reflexive modernisation: the contradictions of Central Asia. National Identities, 3 (1), 23-35. doi: 10.1080/14608940020028475
Conference Papers
Phillips, Andrew (2006). Subverting the anarchical society: Religious radicalism, transnational insurgency, and the transformation of international orders. Second Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 5-7 July 2006.
Phillips, Andrew (2004). Luther, Lenin, and Osama bin Laden – Transnational insurgency networks and the evolution of the modern state system. First Oceanic Conference On International Studies, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 14-16 July 2004. Canberra, A.C.T.: OCIS Organizing Committee.