ProfessorMichael Rainsborough
Professor and Director, Centre for Future Defence and National Security
Faculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security
- Professor and Director, Centre for Future Defence and National SecurityFaculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security
- +61 3 924 68841 (Work)
- Canberra - Centre for Defence
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Michael's research interests span a wide range from strategic theory to military history.
His research has appeared in journals such as International Security, International Affairs, Intelligence and National Security, Journal of Cold War Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Civil Wars, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces and Society, Contemporary Security Policy, Democracy and Security, Low-Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement, Orbis, Parameters, Cold War History, and Review of International Studies.
He is author/co-author of a range of academic books including Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement (Routledge, 1995), Dilemmas of Decommissioning (Politeia, 1999), Reinventing Realism: Australian Foreign and Defence Policy at the Millennium (RIIA: 2000), ASEAN and East Asian International Relations (Edward Elgar, 2006), The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works and Why it Fails (Routledge, 2007), Asian Security and the Rise of China: International Relations in an Age of Volatility (Edward Elgar, 2012), Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age (Macmillan, 2014), The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency: Strategic Problems, Puzzles and Paradoxes (Columbia University Press, 2015); Year of the Bat: Globalisation, China and the Coronavirus (Civitas, 2020); Terror in the Western Mind: Cultural Responses to 9/11 (Academica, 2021) and The Strategy of Maoism in the West: Rage and the Radical Left (Edward Elgar, 2022).