Anthony D. Burke

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Anthony Burke (born 1966) is an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales. He is co-principal at the Planet Politics Institute.^[1]

His published work ranges across the fields of political theory and philosophy, environmental politics, science and technology studies, security studies, war and peace, international ethics, international law, and Australian politics and history. He has spent the last decade working on problems of planetary politics, governance and security, especially climate change, and written for Nature^[2] and The Washington Post on the crisis at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the environmental consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

He is the author of six books: The Ecology Politic: Power, Law & Earth in the Anthropocene (with Stefanie Fishel, MIT Press, 2025), Institutionalising Multispecies Justice (with Danielle Celermajer et. al., Cambridge University Press, 2024), Uranium (Polity, 2017), Ethics and Global Security: A Cosmopolitan Approach (with Katrina Lee-Koo and Matt McDonald, Routledge 2014), Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other (Routledge, 2007), and Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (first edn. Pluto Press Australia, 2001; 2nd. edn. Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is the co-editor of Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda (with Jonna Nyman, Routledge 2016), Global Insecurity: Futures of Global Chaos and Governance (with Rita Parker, Palgrave, 2017), and Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (with Matthew McDonald, Manchester University Press, 2007).

Shorter works include "Interspecies Cosmopolitanism" (Review of International Studies, 2023), "Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the end of IR" (Millennium, 2016), "Security Cosmopolitanism" (Critical Studies on Security, 2013), "Humanity After Biopolitics" (Angelaki, 2011), "Ontologies of War" (Theory & Event, 2006), and "Aporias of Security" (Alternatives, 2002).