Bob Bowker

Bob Bowker is a former Australian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Syria. He was an Adjunct Professor at the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.

Bob Bowker 12 Aug 2021

Syria: The consequences of intellectual failure and moral neglect

No Western government should abide policy goals that in practice are pursued via collective punishment of Syrian people.
Bob Bowker 30 Nov 2020

The fallout of assassinating Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

The killing of the head of the Iranian nuclear program may make it even harder to revive the nuclear deal.
Bob Bowker 12 Oct 2020

The false promise of regime change

A new book from an Obama insider considers the repeated failures of outside overthrow in the Middle East.