Staff Profiles

Alexey has commenced his professional career as a researcher in Strategic and Defence Studies and a lecturer in Politics and International Relations in 1998. 

Since 1999, Alexey was instrumental in developing and teaching modules and professional programs in international relations (Master of Future Studies, Master of International Studies, Graduate Studies in International Relations) and strategic and defence studies. In 2001-02 he took a leading role in the development, management and teaching of Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence (GSSD) program in Western Australia (in partnership with the Australian National University), and he was the Program Director until 2004.

Alexey took a leading role in the establishment of the International Relations & Global Security Research Unit at then the Division of Humanities, Curtin.

Alexey has over 40 publications on national and international strategic and defence affairs, including two books and one research monograph.

He is the reviewer of the Military Balance annual defence almanach published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (United Kingdom).

Alexey is a regular contributor to the Weekly Global Report, a weekly publication of worldwide strategic intelligence and analysis from Future Directions International: Australia's Centre for Strategic Analysis.

Between 2000 and 2010 he presented papers at 23 national and international academic and professional conferences.

Alexey offers his expertise and professional advise to state and federal governments and agencies, and to the private sector.

Alexey is frequently interviewed by local and international media on national security problems, international and strategic affairs. He is a regular foreign affairs commentator on Curtin Radio 101FM.

Alexey research's interests focus on problems of maritime security (modern naval power, maritime terrorism), Russia’s strategic and defence policy and military modernisation, Russia as a Pacific power, alliances in the Asia-Pacific, regional balance of power, Australian national security and defence, contemporary terrorism, future wars, and other.

• Russian naval power in the Pacific;
• Russian defence modernisation in the Far East;
• Russia's strategic and defence policy in the Asia-Pacific;
• Russia's defence cooperation with Indonesia;
• Maritime Terrorism.

• Conflict and Strategy 221;
• Political Inquiry 311;
• Securing Global Futures 312.

• SS 578 International Relations (Eurasian Studies);
• SS 583 International Relations (Security and Conflict in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Guilf);
• SS 584 International Relations (Strategic Geography).

Convenor, Bacher of Arts (International Relations)

Coordinator, Graduate Studies in International Relations (Graduate Certificate, Diploma, Master)

Coordinator, Graduate Studies in National Security (forthcoming)

• Member of the Australian Member Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region;
• Member of Russia-NATO Experts Group, Brussles, Belgium;
• Research Fellow, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, the University of Melbourne;
• Member of the Editorial Board, Sea Power Centre - Australia, Royal Australian Navy;
• Member of a Research Network for a Secure Australia;
• Member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Curtin University;
• Research Associate, Future Directions International Research Network;
• Member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (W.A.);
• Member of the Royal United Services Institute (W.A.);
• Member of the Australalian Association of Communist and Post-Communist Studies;
• Member, International Humanitarian Law Committee, Australian Red Cross (W.A.).

• Expert of International Standing, the Australian Research Council College of Experts, 2007, 2008, 2009;
• Curtin University Award for Highest RPI Points for Publications for an Early Career Researcher, 2008;
• Curtin Student Guild Award for Excellence in Teaching for Coursework Lecturers, 2007;
• Nominee, Curtin Student Guild Award for Excellence in Teaching for Undergraduate Lecturers and Tutors, 2006;
• Curtin Student Guild Award for Excellence in Teaching for Coursework Lecturers or Tutors, 2005.

Books (Authored, Research)

• Muraviev, A. 2007. The Russian Pacific Fleet: From the Crimean War to Perestroika. Canberra, ACT: Department of Defence.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

• Muraviev, A. 2009. Al Qaeda's Eastern Front: The Russian vector in the network's international activity. In Doomed to repeat? Terrorism and the Lessons of History, 157-186. USA: New Academia Publishing.
• Brown, C, and Muraviev, A. 2009. Russia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation: The Old-New Affair. In People, Place and Power. Australia and the Asia Pacific, eds Dawn Bennet, Jaya Earnest, Miyume Tanji, 230-255. Western Australia: Black Swan Press.
• Muraviev, A. 2007. Securing the Littoral: Issues for a New Maritime Power in the Pacific. In Sea Power: Challenges Old and New, eds Andrew Forbes, 247-258. Australia: The Sea Power Centre - Australia and Halstead Press.
• Muraviev, A. 2004. 9/11 and Russian Perceptions of Europe and NATO. In European Security After 9/11, eds Peter Shearman and Matthew Sussex, 107-127. United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Brown, C, and Muraviev, A. 2008. Strategic Realignment or Deja vu? Russia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century. Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Working Paper Series 411: 1-42.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

• Muraviev, A. 2007. Maritime Terrorism and Risks to the Australian Maritime and Resource Industries. RNSA Security Technology Conference, 28/09/2007. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Homeland Security Research Centre.
• Muraviev, A. 2006. Balanced Target Hardening: Protecting Australian Academic Institutions from Terrorism. RNSA Security Technology Conference 2006, 19/09/2006. Canberra, ACT: Australian Homeland Security Research Centre.