Nuclear proliferation
Understanding the causes and consequenes of the spread of nuclear weapons.
- The nuclear ban treaty isn’t winning over the states that matter, The Interpreter (2026)
- Nuclear non-proliferation: Louder questions about extended deterrence in ‘Unpacking Trump 2.0,’ United States Studies Centre (2025)
- The New Face of North Korean Sanctions Monitoring: Can the MSMT Pick Up Where the Panel of Experts Left Off?, 38 North (2025)
- The DPRK-Russia ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ and the future of sanctions against North Korea, United States Studies Centre (2024)
- Australia and the emerging nuclear order in Northeast Asia (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2024)
- Lights, Camera, Deterrence: What Oppenheimer tells us about nuclear security, King’s College London (2023)
- Maximum Pressure Made Permeable: The Trouble With Washington’s North Korea Sanctions, War on the Rocks (2020)
- ‘Nuclear weapons and limited war: A return to the nuclear battlefield?‘ Comparative Strategy 39, no. 1 (2020): 18-28
- ‘What next for sanctions against North Korea?‘ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 75, no. 5 (2019): 247-51
- What the Hanoi Summit Tells Us About North Korea’s Nuclear Intentions, The Diplomat (2019)
- No Time to Abandon Denuclearization, Council on Foreign Relations (2019)
- Four Ways North Korea’s Nukes Spell Trouble for the US — Even If They’re Never Used, Defense One (2018)
- ‘What North Korea’s nuclear weapons mean for Australian national security.’ Quarterly Access 11, no. 1 (2018): 4-7
- North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Australia’s National Security, Australian Outlook (2018)
- ‘Competing Interpretations of the Stability–Instability Paradox: The Case of the Kargil War.’ The Nonproliferation Review 24, no. 1-2 (2017): 83-99.
Indo-Pacific security
Policy-driven research to lower barriers to strategic cooperation between like-minded Indo-Pacific states, strengthening deterrence and the rules-based regional order.
- Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific, War on the Rocks (2026), with Peter J. Dean
- Grey zone games: Lessons from the 2025 AJUS simulation (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2026), with Michael J. Green et al.
- Missiles and multipolarity: Can an Indo-Pacific coalition defeat China’s missile overmatch? (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2026), with Peter J. Dean
- US-Australia-Japan strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: Testing trilateralism through crisis simulation (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2025), with Michael J. Green et al.
- Seizing the moment: Outcomes of the inaugural Australia-Japan-South Korea trilateral dialogue (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2024)
- ‘China’s state-led international port development: Challenges for port states,’ Marine Policy 155 (2023), with Jean Annet de Saint-Rapt and Eunha Yun
- Examining China’s Global Port Empire, The National Interest (2023)
- ‘Fighting Flu: Securitization and the Military Role in Combating Influenza,’ Armed Forces & Society 42, no. 1 (2016): 145-68, with Adam Kamradt-Scott.
Strategic trade controls
Regulating the movement of military and strategic technologies across borders.
- From lecture halls to jail cells: the rising risks of university research, The Strategist (2026)
- ’Trade, Technology, and the Ivory Tower: Mapping Export Control Risks in Higher Education,’ Global Trade and Customs Journal 21, no. 3–4 (2026) with Ana Sánchez Cobaleda
- ‘The obstruction of customs enforcement at privately operated port terminals: A study of Chinese state-owned enterprises,’ Journal of Strategic Trade Control 3 (2025), with Egor Kartuzov and Steve Osborne
- US MTCR reform and its implications for Australian industry and defence (Sydney, United States Studies Centre: 2025)
- Handbook of best practices for strategic trade control enforcement at ports, CSSS Occasional Paper Series (London, King’s College London: 2023), with Cem Boke et al.
- ‘Open registries as an enabler of maritime sanctions evasion,’ Marine Policy 119 (2020), with Stephen Osborne and Samuel Grant.