Adam Simpson

Dr Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer, International Studies, in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University. He has held a six-month Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and Visiting Scholar positions at SOAS, University of London, Queen Mary, University of London and Keele University. His research analyses authoritarianism, democratisation, military coups, environmental politics and civil conflict with a particular focus on Myanmar and Thailand. He also undertakes field research and policy analysis on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including issues related to NATO, the EU and Asia (North Korea, South Korea and Japan), and Australian climate politics. He has published in international journals such as Environmental Politics, Society & Natural Resources, Third World Quarterly and Pacific Review. He is the author of Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (Routledge 2014; Updated Paperback Edition, NUS/NIAS Press 2017) and is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (2018) and Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society (Routledge, First Edition 2021, Second Edition 2024).