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Professional Background
BA Hons. UTS (1991) MA UTS (1994) PhD ANU (1999)
Anthony Burke was appointed to UNSW@ADFA in February 2008, after three years in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at UNSW Sydney (2005-7). There he taught first year international relations, international security (2nd year), and Australian foreign policy (Masters). He taught previously at the Universities of Adelaide (2001-4) and Queensland (2001), and worked for two years as a research officer in the Senate’s environment, arts and communications committee (1999-2000), where he co-authored reports on the ABC, the Jabiluka uranium mine and Australia’s response to climate change. He is co-editor with Richard Devetak and Jim George of the major new textbook Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Research Interests
Anthony has published in the areas of security studies, international ethics, war and peace, Australian culture and foreign policy, Southeast Asian security, Middle-East conflict, refugees, terrorism, and political and international relations theory. He is the author of Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (2nd ed. Cambridge, 2008), Beyond Security Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other (Routledge, 2007) and editor (with Matt McDonald) of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester, 2007). He is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grant (2005-8) of $150,000 for the project “Strategic paradox, global security and limited war: the politics and ethics of force”. His current interests include war and peace, new security agendas and conflicts, human security, cosmopolitanism, and climate change.
Key Publications
Books
Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (Cambridge and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Fully revised and updated edition. 303 pp.
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). 300 pp.
Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives, edited with Richard Devetak and Jim George (Cambridge and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 460 pp.
Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific, edited with Matt McDonald (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007). 320 pp.
In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (Sydney: Pluto Press Australia, 2001). 415 pp.
Book chapters
“Security as ethics”, in J. Peter Burgess ed. Handbook of New Security Studies (PRIO and Routledge, 2009). In print.
“Postmodernism”, in Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal eds. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 359-377.
“Cause and Effect in the War on Terror”, in Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak eds. Security and the War on Terror (London and New York: Routledge, 2007): 25-41.
“Security Politics and Us: Sovereignty, Violence and Power After 9/11”, in Suvendrini Perera ed. Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post-2001 (Perth: Network Books Symposia Series, 2007): 197-244.
“International Relations, Critical”, in Winsome Roberts and Brian Galligan eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007).
“Critical Approaches to Security and Strategy”, in Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball eds. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2006): 152-169.
Journal Articles
“Nuclear Reason: At the Limits of Strategy”, International Relations, December 2009. Forthcoming.
“Metaterror”, Roundtable on Terrorism and IR Theory, International Relations, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2009: 61–67.
“Recovering Humanity from Man: Hannah Arendt’s Troubled Cosmopolitanism”, International Politics, Vol. 45 No. 4, July 2008: 514-521.
“Life, In the Hall of Smashed Mirrors: Biopolitics and Terror Today”, Borderlands, Vol. 7 No. 1, May 2008 (also as “Life in the Hall of Smashed Mirrors”, Meanjin Quarterly, Vol. 67 No. 4, December 2008: 88-100).
“The End of Terrorism Studies”, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Vol. 1 No. 1, April 2008: 1-13.
“Beyond Security in the Middle-East: An Ethics for (Co)Existence”, Borderlands, Vol. 6 No. 2, October 2007.
“Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence, and Reason”, Theory & Event, Vol. 10 No. 2, July 2007.
“Against The New Internationalism”, Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 19 No. 2, Summer 2005: 73-89. (With a response by Jean Bethke Elshtain, “Against the New Utopianism”: 91-95)
“Iraq: Strategy’s Burnt Offering”, Global Change, Peace & Security, Vol. 17 No. 2, July 2005: 191-213.
“Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence after 9/11”, International Affairs, Vol. 80 No. 2, March 2004: 329-353.
“East Timor and the Failure of Security: Lessons for East Asia”, Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. IV, 2004: 75-105.
Courses Taught
ZHSS8403 Global Security
ZHSS8409 Asia-Pacific Security
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
* Critical approaches to international relations and security studies
* Alternative security agendas and policy
* Critical approaches to war, strategy and peace
* Cosmopolitanism and global politics
* Applied international relations theory