The Palgrave Handbook of National Security

Dr Michael Clarke is Visiting Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney. His research is focused on Chinese governance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (China), Chinese foreign and security policy, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation and American grand strategy. His research has been published in leading journals such as International Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Security, Global Policy, Orbis, Journal of Strategic Studies, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Nonproliferation Review, and Terrorism and Political Violence among others. He is also the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia – A History (Routledge 2011) and (with Andrew O’Neil and Stephan Fruhling) Australian Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests, (Routledge 2015) and is the editor (with Anna Hayes) of Inside Xinjiang: Analysing Space, Place and Power in China’s Muslim North-West, (Routledge 2016), editor of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions (Oxford University Press 2018) and editor (with Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley) of The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific, (Lexington Books, 2020).

Dr Adam Henschke is Associate Professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is an applied ethicist, working on areas that cross over between ethics, technology and security. His research concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics and on relations between ethics and national security. He has published on surveillance, emerging military technologies and intelligence and cyberspace. He is also interested in moral psychology, experimental philosophy and their relations to decision making and policy development. He is the author of Ethics in an Age of Surveillance: Personal Information and Virtual Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and editor (with Fritz Allhoff and Bradley Jay Strawser) of Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare (Oxford University Press 2016).

Dr Tim Legrand is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide. His research is concerned with national and international dimensions of global security decision–making, particularly in transnational networks and institutions. His work traverses a range of security themes, principally in global blacklisting and sanctions, cyber security and critical infrastructure, terrorism, political violence and political exclusion. This research is oriented around a cross-pollination of public administration (law, sociology and public policy) literatures and International Relations (critical security studies, global governance) perspectives to navigate the complex terrain of security in domestic and international spaces. He has published on these subjects in Terrorism and Political Violence, Security Dialogue, British Politics, Political Studies and Review of International Studies. He is also the author of The Architecture of Policy Transfer Ideas, Institutions and Networks in Transnational Policymaking, (Palgrave, 2021) and (with Lee Jarvis) Banning Them, Securing Us? Terrorism, Parliament and the Ritual of Proscription, (Manchester University Press, 2020).

Dr Matthew Sussex is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. His research specialisations are centred around security studies with a particular focus on Russia and Eurasia, and incorporates Australian foreign and security policy and great power competition in Asia and Europe. His recently completedsolo and collaborative book projects include Conflict in the Former USSR (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Violence and the State (Manchester University Press, 2015); Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia (Palgrave, 2015); Russia, Eurasia and the New Geopolitics of Energy (Palgrave, 2015) and is the lead editor (2017) of a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs on the topic of national security