People at GCK Project

Michael Heazle

Griffith Asia Institute
Griffith University

Dr. Michael Heazle is an Australian Research Council Post Doctoral Fellow with the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. He also teaches international relations and politics in the University’s Department of International Business and Asian Studies. Prior to his return to Australia in 2003, Dr. Heazle taught a variety of subjects in the faculties of Economics and Business Administration at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He has researched and published in the areas of energy, human, and environmental security; policy making and the treatment of specialist advice; and China–Japan relations. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Heazle was a regular contributor to the Far Eastern Economic Review, and wrote for a number of other domestic and international publications including The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, The Courier Mail, and The Australian. He has published in international journals including Marine Policy and the International Journal of Maritime History and is the author of Scientific Uncertainty and the Politics of Whaling (University of Washington Press, 2006). He is also co-editor and contributor to Beyond the Iraq War: The Promises, Pitfalls, and Perils of External Interventionism (Edward Elgar, 2006), and China-Japan Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Creating a Future Past? (Edward Elgar, 2007).

Dr. Heazle’s current research includes a three year Australian Research Council funded project focusing on the treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice by policy makers in three case studies: the Iraq intervention, policy responses to global warming, and the Washington Consensus on economic development.