Mark Rolls

Position

Fellow

Profile

Mark G. Rolls is a Senior Lecturer in Asian Politics and Security and Co-Director of the International Relations and Security Studies Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.  He has an MA in Defence and Security Analysis from Lancaster University, and a PhD in South-East Asian Studies from the University of Hull. He has held posts at the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore and in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he was the Swan Hunter International Fellow in South-East Asian Studies. Dr Rolls is the co-editor of Post-Cold War Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region (Frank Cass, 1994, 2000) and the author of The Arms Dynamic in South East Asia during the Second Cold War (Ashgate, 2002). He contributed the chapter on East Asia to New Zealand in World Affairs IV 1990-2005.  His research interests focus on Indonesian defence and security policy, ASEAN, the emerging East Asian regional security architecture, and New Zealand - Asia relations. He is currently working on a book on New Zealand’s relations with the states of South Asia from 1947-2007.  Dr Rolls is a regular participant for New Zealand in the Track II process of political, economic and security dialogue in the Asia-Pacific region.

Contact

markgr@waikato.ac.nz
Phone: (07) 856 2889 ext 6154