Anthony David Burke

Professor Anthony David Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, Australia. He is an interdisciplinary scholar working across international law and international relations, philosophy, political theory, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities.

His educational background includes a BA Hons. MA (Communications) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a PhD (Politics & International Relations) from the Australian National University. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a human rights activist on Southeast Asia and the South Pacific (especially East Timor), and served as Principal Research Officer for the Australian Senate's environment, arts and communications committee, where he led drafting reports on the Jabiluka uranium mine and Australia's response to climate change.

Burke's research focuses on climate politics and governance, biodiversity governance, environmental ethics and philosophy, and nuclear politics and governance. His work spans Political Science, Political Theory and Political Philosophy, International Relations, Defence Studies, International Law, and Environmental and Natural Resources Law. He pioneered the 'Planet Politics' approach that reimagines international relations in the context of the Anthropocene.

His publications reveal a trajectory from critical security studies to environmental political theory, with recent work focusing on multispecies democracy, ecological cosmopolitanism, and planetary governance. His influential works include 'Uranium' (2017), 'Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR' (2016), and numerous articles in top journals like Nature, Review of International Studies, and International Political Sociology.

• 2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects: Global Security, Strategic Paradox and Limited War ($150,000)
• 2014 Economic and Social Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK): Nuclear Ethics and Global Security (£250,000)
• 2022 UNSW Sustainable Development Goals Reform Hub ($20,000)

Burke is the founding editor of the Borderlands journal and coeditor of Palgrave Macmillan's Environmental Politics & Theory book series. He co-led the UNSW Grand Challenge on Thriving in the Anthropocene and is currently working on key projects including a global forests treaty, addressing crimes against biodiversity and ecocide, reforming global climate governance, and analyzing climate and environmental security in the Asia-Pacific region.