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)
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• 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

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