Anthony Burke
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3635006 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anthony Burke |
| NOMBRES | Anthony |
| APELLIDO | Burke |
| FIRMA | BURKE A |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4599-2272 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia
It is difficult to exaggerate the scale of contemporary ecological crises. These challenges, particularly climate change, necessitate new modes of politics and policy, even potentially new institutions, that seem anathema to the emphases of traditional accounts of environmental political science. In this paper, we explore contemporary ecopolitics research in Australia that is attempting to come to terms with the reality of ecological crises and t…
An architecture for a net zero world
In the wake of the 2021 Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement, where states embedded a 2050 pathway to net zero that will overshoot the Earth's remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C, attention is turning to the flaws of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This article highlights ways in which it blocks effective climate action, which has been acknowledged by states who are now pursuing voluntary and nonbinding initiatives on coal, forests…
Interspecies cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism claims to be the most just and inclusive of mainstream approaches to the ethics and practice of world order, given its commitment to human interconnection, peace, equality, diversity, and rights, and its concern with the many globalised pathologies that entrench injustice and vulnerability across borders. Yet it has largely remained oblivious to the agency, power, and value of non-human life on a turbulent and active Earth. Withou…
Between Ecology and Indigeneity
We live at a time of unprecedented ecological and socio-political crisis—climate change, pandemic, extinction, inequality, and repression—yet everywhere it is underpinned by the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the persistent refusal of Indigenous authority and sovereignty. Bringing together concerns about bio- and necropolitics, habitat destruction and animal cruelty, corporate-colonial modes of conservation, whitened food systems, and se…
Across Species and Borders
A coal elimination treaty 2030
This article sets out the case for an international treaty to phase out the mining and burning of coal—a Coal Elimination Treaty, or CET—by 2030, as a way of addressing multiple weaknesses in the global climate change regime and as a medium-term success towards arresting average global heating at 1.5°C before 2050. Given the growing risk that the Paris agreement will fail to trigger rapid emissions reduction, we propose the CET as a global “suppl…
The War of Words
Blue Screen Biosphere
From the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke to the United Nations Charter, the sovereign state has formed the fulcrum of political order and law. Yet in the Anthropocene, this humanist political containment fails to grapple with humanity's dangerous enmeshment with the ecological systems of planet Earth. This article addresses one aspect of this dilemma by focusing on the international law and governance of biodiversity, which presents a …
Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific
Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures - Matt McDonald & Anthony Burke PART I: AGENTS 1. Regionalism and security in East Asia - Julie Gilson 2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia - Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes 3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific - Mark Beeson 4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale …
The War of Words
An Introduction to International Relations
An Introduction to International Relations is a comprehensive introduction to the history,theories, developments and debates that shape the dynamic discipline of international relations and contemporary world politics. Bringing together an expert author team comprising leading academics from Australia and around the world, it allows readers to explore the discipline from both Australian and global perspectives. Known for its clear, easy-to-read s…
Defending Planet Politics
Introduction to International Relations
Ethical Security Studies
Introduction: Imagining Ethical Security Studies, Jonna Nyman and Anthony Burke Part I: Foundations of Ethical Security 1. Security: Critique, Analysis and Ethics, Vivienne Jabri 2. Whose Security? Ethics and the Referent, Matt McDonald 3. World Security: Toward a 'Local' Research Agenda, Ali Bilgic 4. Posthuman Security/Ethics, Audra Mitchell Part II: Visions and Debate 5. The Promise of Theories of Just Securitization, Rita Floyd 6. Security, E…
An Ethics of Global Security
The security agenda is going global. Key threats such as weapons proliferation, disease, terrorism and climate change cannot be addressed unilaterally by states, and require a global perspective to both understand and respond effectively to them. There are therefore powerful pragmatic reasons for embracing a global security perspective. This article, however, suggests that a compelling moral case also exists for viewing security in global terms. …
Planet Politics
Planet Politics is about rewriting and rethinking International Relations as a set of practices, both intellectual and organisational. We use the polemical and rhetorical format of the political manifesto to open a space for inter-disciplinary growth and debate, and for thinking about legal and institutional reform. We hope to begin a dialogue about both the limits of IR, and of its possibilities for forming alliances and fostering interdisciplin…
Nuclear politics
What is it possible to say, or think, about nuclear weapons today? The answer will depend less on what you know than on who you are: on where you are situated, and on what the background rules of m
Nuclear time
This article contributes to a critical project of nuclear scholarship by examining the phenomenon of nuclear time. It does so in two ways. First, it develops an understanding of time as a metaphor that gives shape to our understandings, and performances, of nuclear policy, history and practice. These metaphors have a metaphysical cast, and work in two broad genres – discourses of continuity and recurrence, and of progress and evolution. Second, i…
Security cosmopolitanism
‘Security Cosmopolitanism’ was published in 2013 with the hope that it might stimulate a dialogue between traditional and critical security studies around an urgent problem: the globalisation of insecurities faced by human communities and ecosystems, along with the manifest failure of state and collective security structures to prevent or address them. This second article reflects on the very welcome debate the theory has provoked and speculates …
Security cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism in international affairs is a body of thinking and practice committed to building a more just and sustainable international order, but it has never been systematically applied to the question or practice of security. This article argues that both a range of transnational (event-based and systemic) insecurities, and state abuses of security discourse to compromise rights and cause insecurity, create a compelling normative and empir…
Introduction to International Relations
Global Environmental Politics
This chapter will introduce three of the most prominent global environmental discourses: sustainable development, environmental security and environmental justice. It begins by tracking the emergence of environmental problems as a ‘global’ political problem and tracing the discursive shift from ‘limits to growth’ in the early 1970s to sustainable development in the 1980s. It then highlights the environmental challenges of the post-Cold War period…
The good state, from a cosmic point of view
An introduction to international relations
An introduction to international relations
Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives provides comprehensive coverage of its subject while capturing distinctively Australian perspectives and concerns. Designed for undergraduate students this textbook brings together leading Australian scholars to present lively introductory analyses of the theories, actors, issues, institutions and processes that animate international relations today. Introduction to International Re…
Planet Politics
Planet Politics is about rewriting and rethinking International Relations as a set of practices, both intellectual and organisational. We use the polemical and rhetorical format of the political manifesto to open a space for inter-disciplinary growth and debate, and for thinking about legal and institutional reform. We hope to begin a dialogue about both the limits of IR, and of its possibilities for forming alliances and fostering interdisciplin…
Aporias of Security
Maybe [task] nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are. We have to...get rid of political double-bind, which is simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.... political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of days is not to try to liberate individual from state and from state's institutions, but to liberate us both from state and from type of individualisation which is linked to state. M…
Security cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism in international affairs is a body of thinking and practice committed to building a more just and sustainable international order, but it has never been systematically applied to the question or practice of security. This article argues that both a range of transnational (event-based and systemic) insecurities, and state abuses of security discourse to compromise rights and cause insecurity, create a compelling normative and empir…
Interspecies cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism claims to be the most just and inclusive of mainstream approaches to the ethics and practice of world order, given its commitment to human interconnection, peace, equality, diversity, and rights, and its concern with the many globalised pathologies that entrench injustice and vulnerability across borders. Yet it has largely remained oblivious to the agency, power, and value of non-human life on a turbulent and active Earth. Withou…
Humanity After Biopolitics
Against the background of a profound critique of human rights, cosmopolitan universalism and humanistic political agency offered by writers as diverse as Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt and Jenny Edkins, this essay seeks to recover and rethink the figure of humanity. Arguing that the critique of biopolitics and sovereignty unwittingly frustrates visions of human dignity and agency that can serve as a resource against its abuses, the essay argues t…
Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence After 9/11
Journal Article Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence After 9/11 Get access Anthony Burke Anthony Burke 1University of Adelaide, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 2, March 2004, Pages 329–353, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00386.x Published: 01 April 2004
Blue Screen Biosphere
From the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke to the United Nations Charter, the sovereign state has formed the fulcrum of political order and law. Yet in the Anthropocene, this humanist political containment fails to grapple with humanity's dangerous enmeshment with the ecological systems of planet Earth. This article addresses one aspect of this dilemma by focusing on the international law and governance of biodiversity, which presents a …
Against the New Internationalism
When I think of the challenges facing international society in the wake of the invasion of Iraq, two images come to mind. The first, a work of postcard art, depicts a screenprint of the Statue of Liberty, with a twist. In the place of her striking face and radiating crown appears a decidedly masculine image: that of a helmeted marine, grim and tight-jawed, a cigarette poking insolently from his lips. The caption reads, in bold white capitals on b…
Defending Planet Politics
The good state, from a cosmic point of view
The end of terrorism studies
Keywords: terrorismcosmopolitanismnormative theorystrategy Notes 1. This analysis is a hybrid of the positions Foucault developed throughout works such as The Order of Things (Citation1970), The Archaeology of Knowledge (Citation1972), Discipline and Punish (Citation1977), and The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 (Citation1979) (Dreyfus and Rabinow Citation1983). 2. The present definition, while independently arrived at, is similar to that of the repo…
Nuclear Reason
Is nuclear strategic reason rational? Barack Obama's April 2009 speech looking towards a world free of nuclear weapons appeared to promise positive new directions in global disarmament and non-proliferation. Yet it came on the heels of one of the most destabilising periods in global nuclear security since the early 1980s. This article argues that the growing interpenetration of nuclear and conventional conflict, and the dangers of nuclear terrori…
Security cosmopolitanism
‘Security Cosmopolitanism’ was published in 2013 with the hope that it might stimulate a dialogue between traditional and critical security studies around an urgent problem: the globalisation of insecurities faced by human communities and ecosystems, along with the manifest failure of state and collective security structures to prevent or address them. This second article reflects on the very welcome debate the theory has provoked and speculates …
Questions of Community
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 proposal for an Asia-Pacific community, while ambitious and likely to be resisted by many in the East Asian region, raises important concerns about Asia's regional architecture at a time of profound change and challenge from economic uncertainty, human insecurity, environmental problems and intrastate conflict. This article examines how historic Australian and Asian discourses of identity have shaped As…
Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific
Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures - Matt McDonald & Anthony Burke PART I: AGENTS 1. Regionalism and security in East Asia - Julie Gilson 2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia - Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes 3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific - Mark Beeson 4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale …
Freedom's Freedom
This essay analyses the pervasive discourse of freedom mobilised by the US Administration of George W. Bush, locating its roots not only in post-1945 American foreign policy, but in powerful metanarratives of US exceptionalism and destiny and overarching Western concepts of enlightenment, sovereignty, historical progress, reason of state and secular modernity. Hence freedom is revealed not as a set of democratic liberties guaranteed and enabled b…
Poetry outside Security
A coal elimination treaty 2030
This article sets out the case for an international treaty to phase out the mining and burning of coal—a Coal Elimination Treaty, or CET—by 2030, as a way of addressing multiple weaknesses in the global climate change regime and as a medium-term success towards arresting average global heating at 1.5°C before 2050. Given the growing risk that the Paris agreement will fail to trigger rapid emissions reduction, we propose the CET as a global “suppl…
An Ethics of Global Security
The security agenda is going global. Key threats such as weapons proliferation, disease, terrorism and climate change cannot be addressed unilaterally by states, and require a global perspective to both understand and respond effectively to them. There are therefore powerful pragmatic reasons for embracing a global security perspective. This article, however, suggests that a compelling moral case also exists for viewing security in global terms. …
Recovering Humanity from Man
Iraq
Whatever its value, the international debate over the war in Iraq has failed to question its underpinnings in modern strategic reason; specifically, the 20th-century development of Clausewitz's view that limited war is a rational, controllable means to a political end. This essay traces the development of this technological ‘enframing’ system of strategic reason from the scientific philosophy of Newton, Bacon and Descartes to the modernist thinki…
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Violence and Reason on the Shoals of Vietnam
Postmodern Culture - Volume 9, Number 3, May 1999
Strangers Without Strangeness
It has become a powerful cliché among foreign policy elites that Australia and Indonesia are 'strange neighbours'. As different as we are in culture, historical experience, religious tradition or economic development, so the argument runs, we must find a way to live together. In the context of the international intervention in East Timor to prevent the post-referendum violence, such a gulf in values seems to have only widened and become more bitt…
Poetry outside Security
An Introduction to International Relations
Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives provides comprehensive coverage of its subject while capturing distinctively Australian perspectives and concerns. Designed for undergraduate students this textbook brings together leading Australian scholars to present lively introductory analyses of the theories, actors, issues, institutions and processes that animate international relations today. Introduction to International Re…
Aporias of Security
Maybe [task] nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are. We have to...get rid of political double-bind, which is simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.... political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of days is not to try to liberate individual from state and from state's institutions, but to liberate us both from state and from type of individualisation which is linked to state. M…
Anxious Nation
Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence After 9/11
Journal Article Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence After 9/11 Get access Anthony Burke Anthony Burke 1University of Adelaide, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 2, March 2004, Pages 329–353, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00386.x Published: 01 April 2004
Against the New Internationalism
When I think of the challenges facing international society in the wake of the invasion of Iraq, two images come to mind. The first, a work of postcard art, depicts a screenprint of the Statue of Liberty, with a twist. In the place of her striking face and radiating crown appears a decidedly masculine image: that of a helmeted marine, grim and tight-jawed, a cigarette poking insolently from his lips. The caption reads, in bold white capitals on b…
For a Cautious Utopianism
I thank Professor Elshtain for her response to my article, and the editors for inviting me to make some clarifications and engage in what is emerging as a profound normative dispute about the underlying hopes and worldview of “just war” thinkers and various post-Kantian tendencies. This dispute is centered on our view of the role of war in international society, the normative promise and understanding of “peace,” and, to a lesser extent, on criti…
Iraq
Whatever its value, the international debate over the war in Iraq has failed to question its underpinnings in modern strategic reason; specifically, the 20th-century development of Clausewitz's view that limited war is a rational, controllable means to a political end. This essay traces the development of this technological ‘enframing’ system of strategic reason from the scientific philosophy of Newton, Bacon and Descartes to the modernist thinki…
Freedom's Freedom
This essay analyses the pervasive discourse of freedom mobilised by the US Administration of George W. Bush, locating its roots not only in post-1945 American foreign policy, but in powerful metanarratives of US exceptionalism and destiny and overarching Western concepts of enlightenment, sovereignty, historical progress, reason of state and secular modernity. Hence freedom is revealed not as a set of democratic liberties guaranteed and enabled b…
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence
Introduction: Security, Freedom and Death Part 1: Security 1. Aporias of Security: From the Leviathan to the Security State 2. Poetry Outside Security: The Jagged Edges of Southeast Asia 3. Security After Security: Israel, Palestine and the Wall Part 2: Ethics 4. Strangers without Strangeness: Power and Difference between Australia and Indonesia 5. The Perverse Perseverance of Sovereignty 6. Just War or Ethical Peace? Morality and Strategic Viole…
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence
In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics licenses killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial violence, how should we act? Anthony Burke o…
Ontologies of War
Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason Anthony Burke (bio) War as a Way of Being: Lebanon 2006 On 12 July 2006 the Israel Defense Force (IDF) began a month-long air and ground war in Lebanon. After the bombing and firing finally ceased, 1191 Lebanese civilians and 159 Israelis were dead, and 1.5 million people had been driven from their homes.1 It cost Israel $1.6 billion and, in Lebanon, destroyed at least $4 billion in homes and infr…
Fear of Security
Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurit…
The end of terrorism studies
Keywords: terrorismcosmopolitanismnormative theorystrategy Notes 1. This analysis is a hybrid of the positions Foucault developed throughout works such as The Order of Things (Citation1970), The Archaeology of Knowledge (Citation1972), Discipline and Punish (Citation1977), and The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 (Citation1979) (Dreyfus and Rabinow Citation1983). 2. The present definition, while independently arrived at, is similar to that of the repo…
Recovering Humanity from Man
Metaterror
Nuclear Reason
Is nuclear strategic reason rational? Barack Obama's April 2009 speech looking towards a world free of nuclear weapons appeared to promise positive new directions in global disarmament and non-proliferation. Yet it came on the heels of one of the most destabilising periods in global nuclear security since the early 1980s. This article argues that the growing interpenetration of nuclear and conventional conflict, and the dangers of nuclear terrori…
Questions of Community
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 proposal for an Asia-Pacific community, while ambitious and likely to be resisted by many in the East Asian region, raises important concerns about Asia's regional architecture at a time of profound change and challenge from economic uncertainty, human insecurity, environmental problems and intrastate conflict. This article examines how historic Australian and Asian discourses of identity have shaped As…
An Introduction to International Relations
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, …
Journal editing and ethical research practice
This article offers perspectives from academics with recent journal editing experience on a range of ethical issues and dilemmas that regularly pose challenges for those in editorial roles. Each contributing author has provided commentary and reflection on a select topic that was identified in the research literature concerning academic publishing and journal editing. Topics discussed include the ethical responsibilities of working with internati…
Humanity After Biopolitics
Against the background of a profound critique of human rights, cosmopolitan universalism and humanistic political agency offered by writers as diverse as Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt and Jenny Edkins, this essay seeks to recover and rethink the figure of humanity. Arguing that the critique of biopolitics and sovereignty unwittingly frustrates visions of human dignity and agency that can serve as a resource against its abuses, the essay argues t…
Introduction to International Relations
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