Associate ProfessorSteven Slaughter

Steven Slaughter BA (Hons) Monash, Grad.Dip. Public Policy (Murdoch), PhD
(Monash) is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Deakin
University, Victoria. He is currently the Associate Head of School (Operations)

for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences . Formerly, he has been

the Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning).

Before joining Deakin University in 2004 he taught at Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, Monash University, Melbourne University and the
Australian National University. He has also taught at the Centre for Defence
and Strategic Studies (CDSS) in Canberra.

Steven is a researcher who works within the fields of International Relations,
Global Political Economy, and International Political Theory/political and
democratic theory with respect to the political implications of globalisation
and global governance. He is particularly interested in: republican and
deliberative democratic thought as it relates to globalisation and global
governance, the role that the G20 plays in global policy making, the practice
and prospects of transnational civil society and public involvement in global
governance, and public concerns about the controversies, vulnerabilities and
forms of domination associated with global capitalism.

He is currently actively working on projects relating to: 1) the application
of republican thought to contemporary global governance, and 2) the role that
the G20 plays with respect to addressing social issues such as climate change,
sustainable development and global health.