Mark Beeson
Biography
Publications
Mark Beeson is an adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Griffith University. He previously taught at the University of Western Australia, Murdoch, Griffith, Queensland, York (UK) and Birmingham. Mark’s work is centred on the politics, economics and security of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles and book chapters, and the founding editor of Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific (Palgrave). His latest book is Environmental Anarchy? International Security in the 21st Century, (Bristol University Press).
Covid-19 in China, the US, India: Comparative crisis management 101
The corona crisis is shining an unforgiving light on how very different political systems deal with unexpected crises.
Solastalgia: A malady for our age?
Dread at the state of the environment has been creeping in steadily. Now there’s a word for it.
Climate leadership: An idea whose time has come?
The Canberra Bubble seems to stifle good ideas, so the challenge for citizens make our leaders take security seriously.
Should you lie to your children about reality?
Protecting young people from terrible truths may just be good for them – until it isn’t anymore.
Book review: The chance to actually change the climate
Getting something done about global warming might seem a bit too good to be true, but good policy ideas demand action.
National identity cannot be separated from the climate of the times
Stubborn transnational problems – especially global warming – pose a particular challenge for Western democracies.
Keep calm and fly on … unless someone stops me
As flygskam fever erupts, why not ration frequent flyers to save a global cost of travel on the flimsiest of pretexts?
Geoeconomics isn’t back – it never went away
We can no longer simply assume that what’s good for America is good for the world.
