Eglantine Staunton

Dr. Eglantine Staunton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (Australian National University). She serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Global Responsibility to Protect and holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (University of Queensland).

• BA, MA (Sciences Po)
• MA, PhD (University of Queensland)

Her research focuses on mass atrocity prevention, civilian protection, and France's foreign policy in the Asia Pacific and globally. She specializes in norm research, UN Security Council dynamics, Myanmar, Australia-France relations, and Indo-Pacific security.

Recent publications examine the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) implementation challenges, AUKUS security dynamics, and norm diffusion processes. She has engaged with the European External Action Service and contributed to policy debates via institutions like the UN Office on Genocide Prevention.

As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (2017-2019), she contributed to European R2P studies. Her 2019 book France, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect reshaped understanding of France's foreign policy and norm interactions.