Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
Professor Nick Bisley is Executive Director of La Trobe Asia at La Trobe University. Prior to this appointment Nick was head of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies at La Trobe. His research and teaching expertise is in the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, globalisation and the diplomacy of great powers. Nick is the author of many works on international relations, including Great Powers in the Changing International Order (Lynne Rienner, 2012) and Issues in 21st Century World Politics 2e (Palgrave, 2013), co-edited with Mark Beeson. He is the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs and has held visiting appointments at the East-West Center, Washington DC and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The China-US rivalry is not a new Cold War. It is way more complex and could last much longer
Aug 27, 2020 08:05 am UTC| Politics
The author will be leading on online discussion through La Trobe University today on the threat of a new Cold War between China and the US, with former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and China Matters director Linda Jakobson....
US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames
May 14, 2020 10:46 am UTC|
Even before the COVID-19 crisis upended the world, US-China relations had entered a particularly mistrustful and combative period. While the mutual antagonism predated the Trump administration Chinese President Xi...
The risks of a new Cold War between the US and China are real: here's why
Sep 27, 2018 15:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Donald Trump is making good on his trade war rhetoric with China, announcing tariffs on a further US$200 billion worth of goods from the PRC. As China promises retaliation, the warmth of the Mar-a-Lago summit of April 2017...
Asia is set for a difficult year in 2018 – much of it centred around China
Jan 29, 2018 07:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In 2017 we finally realised that the four decades of geopolitical stability enjoyed by Asian countries and societies had come to an end. In 2018, the major patterns that will come to dominate the region will become...
China's ambition burns bright - with Xi Jinping firmly in charge
Oct 25, 2017 07:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The most important political event of 2017, the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, has concluded. And while there was much to digest, one image above all stands out: Xi Jinpings political dominance and his burning...
Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
Jul 12, 2017 18:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The first week of July is not normally one that brings great events in world politics. Around that time, the northern hemisphere normally shifts into summer holiday mode. Recently, this has become less true. Coups in...
Twenty years after the handover, Hong Kong proves itself a headache for China
Jun 21, 2017 15:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Hong Kong had suffered more than a century of vicissitudes. So declared Jiang Zemin on July 1, 1997, at the return of the colony to the motherland. Twenty years on from the handover of the British Crown colony, the people...
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