Journal articles and books

What shapes Australia’s perception of China as a threat? The media, foreign policy, and public opinion

This article, 'What shapes Australia’s perception of China as a threat? The media, foreign policy, and public opinion', was published in China in the World,...

Reading news about China: how much do Chinese Australians trust the Australian media?

This article, 'Reading news about China: how much do Chinese Australians trust the Australian media?', was published in Communication Research and Practice,...

When science meets geopolitics: global AI research network transformation (2000–2025)

share_windows This article was published in Science and Public Policy, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scag017

Protecting international critical mineral supply chains for accelerated energy transition: A tale of two countries

This book chapter, 'Protecting international critical mineral supply chains for accelerated energy transition: A tale of two countries', appeared in Phoumin...

Way out of the West’s critical minerals dilemma

share_windows This article appeared in the East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, January - March 2026.

Leverage in the Australia-China iron ore trade

This article appeared in the East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, January - March 2026.

Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas: Australia

This book chapter, 'Australia', appeared in Fong, B.C.H. (ed.) The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas. Handbooks in Politics and International Relations. Palgrave...

Decoding Australia’s 'China threat': Geopolitics, knowledge formation, and public opinion

share_windows This article was published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia on January 8 2026.

Australia’s strategic objectives in a changing regional order

Australia has long viewed itself as a middle power anchored in the liberal rules-based order, global markets, its wider neighborhood and its alliance with the...

The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA): Assessing outcomes a decade on

This article appeared in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 12, issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.70047.

The environmental consequences of decoupling

This book chapter appeared in Mobo Gao, Justin O’Connor, Baohui Xie and Jack Butcher (eds.), The Great Decoupling: A New Global Order/Disorder?, (Singapore:...

Australia and the path not taken: The declining independence and influence of middle powers

This article appeared in Global Policy, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70083.

Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: Australian conceptions of the China challenge from Hawke to Howard

This article was published in International Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-025-00696-8.

Economic and environmental impacts of phasing out coal power generation in East Asia

This book chapter was published in Han Phoumin, Xunpeng Shi and Fukunari Kimura (eds.), Navigating the Complexities of Energy Transitions in East Asia,...

Ambiguous alignment: Australia navigating US–China rivalry in the post-AUKUS era

This article was published in China International Strategy Review, vol. 7, pp. 16–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42533-025-00177-w.

China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?

This article was published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2025.2481057.

Engagement of Chinese Australians in the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum

This essay was published in Critical Asian Studies.

From dependence to decoupling: China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency amid geopolitical pressures

This book chapter was published in Peter C.Y. Chow (ed.), Technology Rivalry Between the USA and China, Palgrave Studies in Global Security, Palgrave...

The ‘soft’ uses of ‘hard power’: the people’s liberation army and ‘military operations other than war’

This article was published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 79, issue 2, pp 209-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2025.2455709.