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 […]
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 […]
Ethical Security Studies
This book, edited by Jonna Nyman and myself, was published by Routledge in 2016. It is a cutting-edge collection in both Critical Security Studies and International Ethics, and includes a fabulous concluding chapter by Karin Fierke. Purchase from Routledge :: Amazon :: The Book Depository ‘The ethics of security represent one of the crucial issues […]
Nuclear Politics: Beyond Positivism
Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2016 What is it possible to say, or think, about nuclear weapons today? The answer will depend less on what you know than on who you are: on where you are situated, and on what the background rules of memory, discourse and research that shape your community’s […]
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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