Anthony D. Burke

Who is Anthony D. Burke?

Anthony Burke is an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales.

He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands.

His published work ranges across the fields of security studies, war and peace, international ethics, the international relations of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle-East, and Australian politics and history. He is best known for contributions to the field of critical security studies and the study of war and peace, combining them with explorations of fundamental themes in political and social theory: freedom, security, sovereignty, terror, being, ethics, violence, and truth.

He is the author of three books: Ethics and Global Security: A Cosmopolitan Approach, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other, and Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety. He is the co-editor, with Matthew McDonald, of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific.