Anthony Burke is Associate Professor and Reader in International and Political Studies at UNSW Australia, Canberra. He is author of Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against the Other (Routledge, 2007) and Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (2001; 2nd edition, 2008). He is also co-editor (with Matt McDonald) of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (2007), and (with Jim George and Richard Devetak) An Introduction to International Relations (2012). Katrina Lee-Koo is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Australian National University. She is co-editor of Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2009). Matt McDonald is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland. He is author of Security, the Environment and Emancipation (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor (with Anthony Burke) of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (2007).
Ethics and Global Security is a thoughtful, honest and timely book. It offers refreshingly optimistic thinking on security at a time when critical security studies seem unable to move beyond the impasse of securitization and desecuritization. - Fiona Robinson, E-International Relations, 2016