Select Publications
Journal articles
2013, 'Security cosmopolitanism', Critical Studies on Security, 1, pp. 13 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2013.790194
,2013, 'The Good State, From a Cosmic Point of View', International Politics, 50, pp. 57 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ip.2012.28
,2011, 'Humanity After Biopolitics: On the global politics of human being', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 16, pp. 101 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2011.641348
,2011, 'Journal editing and ethical research practice: perspectives of journal editors', Ethics and Education, 6, pp. 225 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2011.632717
,2010, 'Questions of Community: Australian Identity and Asian Change', Australian Journal of Political Science, 45, pp. 75 - 93
,2009, 'Metaterror', International Relations, 23, pp. 61 - 67
,2009, 'Nuclear Reason: At the Limits of Strategy', International Relations, 23, pp. 506 - 529, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117809348697
,2008, 'Life in the hall of smashed mirrors', Meanjin, 67, pp. 88 - 100
,2008, 'Life in the hall of smashed mirrors: Biopolitics and terror today', Borderlands e-journal, 7
,2008, 'Morality and Political Violence', Australian Journal of Political Science, 43, pp. 764 - 765
,2008, 'Recovering Humanity from Man: Hannah Arendt`s Troubled Cosmopolitanism', Critical Studies on terrorism, 45, pp. 514 - 521
,2008, 'The end of terrorism studies', Critical Studies on terrorism, 1, pp. 37 - 49
,2007, 'Beyond Security in the Middle-East: An Ethics for (Co)Existence', Borderlands e-journal, 6
,2007, 'Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason', Theory and Event, 10:2, pp. 1 - 34
,2005, 'For a Cautious Utopianism', Ethics and International Affairs, 19, pp. 97 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00503.x
,2005, 'Against the New Internationalism', Ethics and International Affairs, 19, pp. 73 - 89
,2005, 'Freedom`s Freedom: American Enlightment and Permanent War', Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 11, pp. 315 - 343
,2005, 'Iraq: Strategy`s Burnt Offering', Global Change, Peace and Security, 11, pp. 191 - 213
,2004, 'Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence after 9/11', International Affairs, 80, pp. 329 - 353
,2003, 'Dance of the In-Between: Humans, Movement, Sites', Borderlands e-journal, 1
,2003, 'Killing and Responsibility: A Dialogue with Joanna Bourke', Borderlands e-journal, 2
,2003, 'New Languages: Power, Feeling, Communication', Borderlands e-journal, 2
,2002, 'Aporias of security', Alternatives, 27, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030437540202700101
,2000, 'Poetry outside security', Alternatives, 25, pp. 307 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030437540002500304
,Conference Presentations
2014, 'Roundtable on the book Ethics and Global Security', presented at Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, 09 July 2014 - 11 July 2014
,2011, 'The Good State from a Cosmic Point of View, . 11-13 July 2011.', presented at “Purposes Beyond Ourselves: Power and Principle in Foreign Policy”, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 11 July 2011 - 13 July 2011
,2006, 'Cause and Effect in the War on Terror', Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 15 December 2006
,2004, 'Tragedy and Politics and Postmodern Peace: Against the New Internationalism', presented at 5th European Conference on International Relations, The Hague, Netherlands, 09 September 2004 - 11 September 2004
,2004, 'Just wars and human rights', presented at Lenten Seminar series, “A fair go in an age of terror?”, Adelaide, 09 March 2004
,2004, 'Freedom’s Freedom: American Enlightenment and Permanent war', presented at Department of Politics Seminar Series 2004, University of Adelaide
,2004, 'Postmodern Peace: Against the New Internationalism', Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
,2003, 'Just war or ethical peace?', presented at Symposium on Ethics and Foreign Policy, University of Queensland
,2003, 'Social Science: Why does it matter?”,', presented at Creating Spaces Conference, Australian National University
,2003, 'Violent Reasons: War, Modernity and Technology', presented at Department of Politics Seminar Series 2003, University of Adelaide
,Creative Written Works
2023, Here’s how to prosecute Russia for Ukraine’s catastrophic flood, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/20/ukraine-flood-prosecute-russia/
,2022, Climate change: less space between one disaster and the next, The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/climate-change-less-space-between-one-disaster-and-next
,2021, Glasgow: a tipping point for serious action, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute for International Policy, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/glasgow-tipping-point-serious-action
,2021, Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/human-progress-is-no-excuse-to-destroy-nature-a-push-to-make-ecocide-a-global-crime-must-recognise-this-fundamental-truth-164594
,2021, High hopes and hot air on climate change, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/high-hopes-hot-air-climate-change
,2020, A dose of climate realism about China’s carbon pledge, The Interpreter, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/dose-climate-realism-about-china-s-carbon-pledge
,2020, The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization., CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000566984800100&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2020, Vision for the Anthropocene: A global ecological democracy, UNSW Grand Challenges, UNSW, https://www.grandchallenges.unsw.edu.au/article/vision-anthropocene-global-ecological-democracy
,2020, Vision for the Anthropocene: Introducing the Anthropocene – and our need to thrive, UNSW Grand Challenges, UNSW, https://www.grandchallenges.unsw.edu.au/article/vision-anthropocene-introducing-anthropocene-and-our-need-thrive
,2017, Australia's Misstep On Nuclear Weapons Treaty, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute for International Affairs, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australian_outlook/australias-misstep-nuclear-weapons-treaty/
,2016, Politics for the planet: why nature and wildlife need their own seats at the UN, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/politics-for-the-planet-why-nature-and-wildlife-need-their-own-seats-at-the-un-59892
,2013, Narrative, Politics and Fictocriticism: Hopes and Dangers, The Disorder of Things, https://thedisorderofthings.com/2013/03/14/narrative-politics-and-fictocriticism-hopes-and-dangers/
,2012, “Security council win a golden opportunity to fix national security at home”, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/security-council-win-a-golden-opportunity-to-fix-national-security-at-home-10225
,2011, “A fantasy debate, disdainful of basic facts”, The Drum (ABC Online), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/burke-a-fantasy-debate-bereft-of-basic-facts/2867052
,2010, “Lurking in the American mind”, Review of Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2010)
,2010, Remarks at opening of Michael Callaghan exhibition, ANU School of Art, Image & Text
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