Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
Mark Beeson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Western Australia. Before joining UWA at the beginning of 2015, he was Professor of International Relations at Murdoch University. Previously he taught at the universities of Griffith, Queensland, York (UK) and Birmingham, where he was also head of department. He is the founding editor of Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific (Palgrave).
Sanctions rarely work, but are they still the least worst option?
Mar 04, 2023 12:24 pm UTC| Economy
How do we encourage states or more specifically the people who run them to behave well, or at least not badly? The we in this context is the fabled international community, which usually amounts to little more than...
As Earth's population heads to 10 billion, does anything Australians do on climate change matter?
Jan 24, 2020 05:59 am UTC| Nature
As unprecedented bushfires continue to ravage the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his government have been rightly criticised for their reluctance to talk about the underlying drivers of this crisis. Yet its not...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
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