Associate ProfessorMichael Clarke

International relations

Foreign Policy Analysis

US grand strategy and foreign policy

Chinese history and politics

Chinese foreign and security policy

Great power politics

Australian defence and strategic policy

Nuclear strategy, nuclear non-proliferation/proliferation and arms control

Expertise Summary
Dr Michael Clarke is Senior Lecturer at the Deakin Centre for Future Defence and
National Security (CFDNS), Canberra. Prior to joining CFDNS he held senior
positions at Griffith University, Australian National University, and the
Centre for Defence Research at the Australian Defence College. He is a
nationally and internationally recognised expert in the history and politics
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, (China); Chinese foreign and
security policy; American grand strategy; Australian defence and strategic
policy; and nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation. He has an extensive
record of peer review publication across these areas of expertise in leading
journals such as International Affairs, Washington Quarterly, Journal of
Contemporary China, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Journal of Strategic
Studies. He is the author of Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia - A
History (Routledge 2011), (with Andrew O'Neil and Stephan Fruhling),
Australian Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative
Interests (Routledge 2015), and US Grand Strategy and National Security: The
Dilemmas of Primacy and Decline from the Founders to Trump (Palgrave 2021).
His regular commentary on contemporary international and national security
issues have been published by prominent international and national outlets
such as Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Diplomat, War on the
Rocks, The National Interest, World Politics Review, South China Morning Post,
The Interpreter, The Age and The Australian amongst others.
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