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Qualifications BA (ANU, Oriental Studies), MA (Harvard, East Asian Regional Studies), PhD (ANU, Political Science and International Relations)
Biography Ann Kent is a Visiting Fellow in the ANU College of Law. She was previously ARC Research Council Fellow in the Centre for International and Public Law, ANU Faculty of Law. Her most recent book is Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations and Global Security (Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 2007). Previous positions have included China Research Specialist in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and in the Foreign Affairs Group, Legislative Research Service, Commonwealth Parliament. She also taught at Shanghai Teachers' University (now Huadong) in 1975-1976. She is a member of the editorial board of China Information, published in Leiden, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Centre for China and International Organisations, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai. She has published three major monographs, and numerous book chapters and refereed articles, of which three have been published in the Human Rights Quarterly and one in the China Quarterly.
Scholarly Interests China and international organisations, China and international law, international human rights law, and human rights in Australia and China
Recent Publications 'International Organizations, Relations with, 1900-1949'; and 'International Organizations, Relations with, since 1949', in David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009), 4 vols, 342-348; 'The Tiananmen Massacre', in David P. Forsythe, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Rights (New York, Oxford University Press, 2009), 5 vols; 'Compliance v Cooperation: China and International Law', Australian International Law Journal, 13 (2006, publ. 2008), pp.19-32; 'China's Changing Attitude to the Norms of International Law and its Global Impact', in Pauline Kerr, Stuart Harris and Qin Yaqing, eds, China's 'New' Diplomacy: Tactical or Fundamental Change? (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 55-76; 'Chinese Values and Human Rights', in Leena Avonius and Damien Kingsbury, eds., Human Rights in Asia: A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 83-98; 'The Ozone Layer: China, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank' (in Chinese), Fudan International Studies Review, vol 7/2007, pp. 214-236;  and 'Culture, Power and Globalisation: China's Changing Approach to International Law' (in Chinese), in China Society of Legal History, ed., Zhongguo wenhua yu fazhi ('Chinese Culture and the Rule of Law')(Beijing, Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2007), pp. 356-370
Representative Publications Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations and Global Security (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), 360 pp.; 'Australia and International Human Rights', in James Cotton and John Ravenhill, eds., Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs (Oxford University Press and AIIA, 2007), pp. 229-250; 'Influences on National Participation in International Institutions: Liberal v Non-Liberal States', in Hilary Charlesworth et al., eds., The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (Sydney, The Federation Press, 2005), pp. 251-276; 'China's International Socialization: The Role of International Organizations', Global Governance 8 (2002), pp. 343-364; China, the United Nations and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 336 pp; 'States Monitoring States: The United States, Australia and China's Human Rights, 1990-2001', Human Rights Quarterly 23 (2001), no. 3, pp. 583-624; Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights (Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1993), 278 pp.; and Indictment without Trial: The Case of Liu Shao-ch'i (ANU, Canberra, International Relations Department Working Paper, 1969)
 
Name Dr Ann Kent
Room 158
Tel +61 2 6125 4069
Email Ann.Kent@anu.edu.au
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