My Expertise
Non-traditional security studies
Global politics of ethnic conflict
Conflict Transformation
Socio-politics of emerging technologies
Pedagogy
Hermeneutics
Fields of Research (FoR)
International relations, Peace studies, Defence studies, Cultural studies of nation and region, Curriculum and pedagogy, Social and political philosophy, International Relations, Defence Studies, Race and Ethnic Relations, Information Systems not elsewhere classifiedSEO tags
Biography
Primary areas of research have been on the theoretical and normative debates associated with the global politics and pedagogical research. Publications have been primarily in this area:
- 2026 With Kelly, J. et.al. “Traversing the Borderlands of SoTL as a Transdisciplinary and Transnational Practice”, Teaching & Learning Inquiry,14
- 2026 (In Press) With Gomez, M. “AI-Enabled Information Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing Threat...view more
Primary areas of research have been on the theoretical and normative debates associated with the global politics and pedagogical research. Publications have been primarily in this area:
- 2026 With Kelly, J. et.al. “Traversing the Borderlands of SoTL as a Transdisciplinary and Transnational Practice”, Teaching & Learning Inquiry,14
- 2026 (In Press) With Gomez, M. “AI-Enabled Information Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing Threat Mitigation and Trust Building”, Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs
- 2025 With Patsie Polly et.al., An ePortfolio Recommendations Roadmap", Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 22: 3,
- 2025 With David Beesley, "Swarm Hermeneutics" in Ng, Scholz & Abass (eds) Thinking Swarms, Springer Nature, 2025
- 2024 “Nations and Nationalism” In Devetak, R. et. al. (eds), An Introduction to International Relations, 4th Ed. Cambridge University Press
- 2024 With Farlow, H. et.al. "Deceive, Disrupt, Disclose: The 3D Model for AI Security." Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA)
---- - 2018 "Hybrid Peace/War" in Wallis J. et. al (eds) Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development, ANU Press
- 2020 The Problem of Peoples: Global Politics, Ethnicity and the Struggle for Legitimacy, LAP Lambert
- 2000 “A World of Tribes?”, in G. Fry and J. O’Hagan (eds), Contending Images of World Politics, MacMillan
Supervision areas (International Relations, Ethnic Conflict, Non-traditional Security & Disruptive Technologies):
- The Philosophy of Artificial Wisdom
- From Adversarial Machine Learning to AI Security Risk
- Four Oceans: An integrated approach to Australia's maritime domain
- Thinking Grand strategy
- Regional security in Afghanistan
- Hindutva and Indian foreign policy
- Climate change and Defence
- Strategic impact of drones in the Indo-Pacific
- Responsibility to rebuild
- Climate wars debate
- French intervention in Mali
Teaching:
- Received a Rector's Commendation for Teaching Excellence in 2010.
- Courses taught at all levels in international relations and security studies.
- Issues in Global Security course delivered to middle ranking officers at the Australian Command and Staff College (2005-2011).
- ZHSS2427 Politics of the Great Powers and ZGEN2215 Law, Force and Legitimacy; ZHSS8442 Culture& Conflict; ZHSS8453 Conflict Transformation
My Grants
2022 Curricula Integration of Student Wellbeing Resources: Exploring Australian and New Zealand perspectives, HERDSA
My Awards
- 2023-2025 UNSW Nexus Fellow
- 2019 Faculty Teaching Award Excellence in Online Education
- 2010 Rector’s Commendation Excellence in Classroom Teaching
My Research Activities
My research expertise has been at the intercession between geopolitics, critical security studies and ethnic conflict, and is currently focused on the geopolitical impact of disruptive technologies. As a Nexus Fellow, I lead in educational innovation and pedagogic response to disruptive change through transdisciplinary approaches, ePortfolios and simulation design. Combining these areas, my recent publications have been on nationalism, hybrid war, and the hermeneutics of disruptive technologies including autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and disinformation,
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Conflict Transformation
Geopolitics
Ethnic Conflict
Sociopolitical Implications of Emerging Technology
Pedagogy
Currently supervising
An evaluation of Australian Think Tanks
Applying the ripeness theory to historical cases
The weaponisation of e-commerce
Understanding information warfare
Higher Education in Afghanistan
My Engagement
I am highly engaged with defence and intelligence stakeholders.
- 2026 With Elizabeth Reardon (NZDF), “Developing and Co-ordinating Information Warfare Competencies into an Integrated Professional Development Program”, EW ANZ Conference, Canberra, 11-13 March
- 2025 “Disinformation as a Strategic Challenge: Implications for New Zealand”, (Invitation) Massey University, Wellington, 7 Nov
- 2025 With Michael Shoebridge “Resilience Australia: Tariffs and Turbulence”, National Press Club, June 2025
- 2024 “Disinformation Scorecard: Evaluating Impact and Resilience in 2024 Indo- Pacific Elections”, Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR), 17-19 Sep
- 2023 “Applying information philosophy criteria as a conceptual mapping tool in the contested Indo-Pacific region”, AOC Convention, Adelaide, Sep 2023
Since 2017, I have been a commissioning editor for Australian Outlook.