The 2019-20 Australian forest fire crisis: a climate security dilemma
This month I published a column in New Matilda arguing that the vast scale, intensity and destructiveness of the 2019-2020 fires represent a major national security crisis for Australia. I argued that our failure to prepare for the crisis was systemic: a threefold function of the narrow and militarist way we understand national security, our […]
Defending Planet Politics
by Stefanie Fishel, Anthony Burke, Audra Mitchell, Simon Dalby and Daniel Levine *This text is a final preprint of our response to the critique of the Planet Politics manifesto published in Millennium by David Chandler, Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden. Both can be viewed in the Online first section of the journal. I will update […]
Uranium
This month my new book, Uranium, was published by Polity Press, Cambridge, in their Series: Resources. Purchase from Polity :: Amazon :: The Book Depository :: Readings ‘A refreshing and highly readable analysis that takes a broad historic look at the discovery and exploitation of uranium and the moral, political and strategic questions to which its […]
Ecological international law
“Whether we consider wild weather, unprecedented Arctic melting and global temperatures, or the Great Barrier Reef, the global environment is generating alarming news. Predictions of multi-metre sea level rises, the collapse of marine biodiversity and food chains, and global warming far beyond 2℃ are equally concerning. Is our system of global environmental law and governance adequate to this crisis? Our short […]
Manifesto of Planet Politics
This Spring (Autumn where I live in the southern hemisphere) Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell, Simon Dalby, Daniel Levine and I published “Planet Politics: A manifesto from the end of IR” in the Millennium Journal of International Studies. We are proud of this article and have reproduced the final preprint submission here on my personal website, […]
Global Theory 
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