Professor James Cotton

BA (Flind), MA (Durh), MScEcon, PhD (LSE)

School of Politics, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra. In 2001 he was visiting Centennial Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics, and he is a continuing Associate of the Asia Research Centre, LSE. He studied at Flinders and Durham Universities, the London School of Economics (PhD 1978) and the Beijing Language Institute and was a graduate fellow at Princeton University.
He formerly held positions at the University of Tasmania, the Australian National University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Western Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). Since 1998 he has served on the Foreign Affairs Council convened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia. He is also a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP).

A former editor and presently a consulting editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, he is the author of over 150 publications on Asian politics and political thought including articles in Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Focus, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Government and Opposition, Political Studies, Political Theory, Survival, and Comparative Political Studies. His latest book is (with John Ravenhill) The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000 (Oxford University Press/AIIA, 2002). He was a Korea Foundation lecturer in Seoul in 1989 and has made six visits to North Korea since 1986.

UNSW@Australian Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra, ACT, 2600, AUSTRALIA Tel: (61-2) 6268 6251, Fax: (61-2) 6268 8852, Email: j.cotton@adfa.edu.au