Athol Yates
Athol Yates, an Australian homeland security academic, is professor and program chair at the Institute of International and Civil Security, Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Yates' books on UAE Armed Forces and security history include The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (2020), The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States - Volume 1: Trucial States and United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980 (co-author Cliff Lord), and The Naval Force of Abu Dhabi 1967 - 1976 (co-author Cliff Lord).[1][2]
Education
Yates undertook undergraduate studies at Monash University where he received a degree in engineering; University of Melbourne where he received a graduate diploma in Soviet Studies; and at Australian National University where he received both a masters in public policy and PhD in homeland security public policy.[3]
Career
Yates is currently the program chair at the Institute of International and Civil Security, Khalifa University. His research specialties are UAE public policy decision making, UAE national security machinery of government, and UAE security and military history.[3] He was a Visiting Scholar at the Stockholm-based Institute for Security & Development Policy in 2012,[4] and at the University of Melbourne from 2013 to 2016.[5]
Yates was the founder and executive director of the Australian Security Research Centre in Australia from 2006 to 2012. This was a public policy think tank that focused on domestic security and disaster management. Before that he was the Associate Director, Public Policy, Engineers Australia (1996-2005) where he wrote Government as an Informed Buyer[6] and Engineering a Secure Australia.[7]
His services to engineering was recognized in 2013 when he was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.
In 2001, Yates won the Best Analytical Writing of the Year award from the Australian Business Publishers for his article on "Lessons From Disasters: Don't Cut Down on Engineering Expertise".[8] During the 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a journalist, guidebook writer and publisher.
Controversy
Yates was criticized for his public statements about the threat of human pandemics in the late 2000s.[9] He claimed in interviews that "pandemics are possibly a greater threat to business continuity than terrorism".[10] In his talk on ABC Radio National in 2007, he stated that international borders may need to be closed in the face of H5N1 avian flu virus spreading.[11] This was criticized as being unrealistic as "individual states can turn themselves into fortresses against pandemic influenza by closing their borders."[12] This has proved to be wrong as countries such as New Zealand and Australia have been able to effectively prevent COVID-19 from entering through a combination of restricted border entry coupled with mandatory quarantine for arrivals.
Books
- The Evolution of the UAE Armed Forces (Solihull: Helion & Co, 2020).
- The Military and Polices Forces of the Gulf States: Trucial States & United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980 (Solihull: Helion & Co, 2019), with C. Lord.
- The Naval Force of Abu Dhabi 1967 - 1976 (Canberra: Collaborative Publications, 2019), with C. Lord.
- Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1970s (London: Medina Publications, 2016) (editor)
- Western Isolation: The Perth Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007) (editor)
- A Danger Greater Than War: NSW and the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007) (editor)
- Lessons from the Past for Today’s Pandemic Planners and Officers. Proceedings of the First Australian Pandemic History Conference. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007) (editor)
- Energy Security for Australia: Crafting a Comprehensive Energy Security Policy (Canberra, Engineers Australia, 2015) with N. Greet.
- Government as an Informed Buyer: How the public sector can most effectively procure engineering-intensive products and services (Canberra: Engineers Australia: 2012, 2002)
- More than good deeds: Disaster risk management and Australian, Japanese and US Defence forces (Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2011) with A. Bergin)
- Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management (Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2010) with A. Bergin
- Blast: How Explosive Devices Kill People and Destroy Buildings (Australian Security Research Centre: Australia, 2012)
- 2010 Australian Infrastructure Report Card (Engineers Australia: Australia, 2010)
- Hardening Australia: Climate Change And National Disaster Resilience (Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2009) with A. Bergin
- Climate Change Adaptation Handbook – Emergency Services, Railways and Electricity Sectors (Australian Security Research Centre, 2009)
- All in a Day’s Work: Business and Australian Disaster Management (Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2008) with A. Bergin
- Engineering a Safer Australia: Securing Critical Infrastructure and the Built Environment (2003) Engineers Australia: Australia.
- Russia by Rail (Bradt Travel Guides, 1996)
- The Siberian BAM Railway Guide: The Second Trans-Siberian Railway (Trail Blazer Publications, 1996)
References
- ↑ "KU Researcher Publishes New Book on the History of the UAE Armed Forces". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Emirates News Agency (21 February 2019). "Book on early history of UAE Navy released". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dr. Athol Yates Bio". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ISDP People". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Profile". 28 October 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Government as an Informed Buyer" (PDF). Engineers Australia.
- ↑ "Engineering a safer Australia : securing critical infrastructure and the built environment" (PDF). Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Update" (PDF). Monash News. January 2001. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Furedi, Frank (2007). Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown. University of Michigan: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 130. ISBN 9780826499578. Search this book on
- ↑ Volume 29, Issues 1-4, 2007, number, page 10 (2007). "to be determined". Business Review Weekly. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Yates, Athol (29 August 2007). "Close the airports or pandemic influenza will fly in". ABC Radio National. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Enemark, Christian (2009). "Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat?". Survival: Global Politics and Strategy. 51:1: 203–204. doi:10.1080/00396330902749798. Unknown parameter
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External Links
The Evolution of the UAE Armed Forces
The Military and Polices Forces of the Gulf States: Trucial States & United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980
The Naval Force of Abu Dhabi 1967 - 1976
Australian Security Research Centre
The Institution of Engineers Australia
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