The Sixth Oceanic Conference on International Studies: transitions in the Asia Pacific

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Notes on contributors

Christine Agius is Lecturer in Politics at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research centres on international relations and security studies, particularly post-structuralist and discursive approaches to identity and security, with a focus on the Nordic states. She is the author of The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality: Challenges to Swedish Sovereignty and Identity (Manchester, 2006) and has published articles in journals such as Security Dialogue and Cooperation and Conflict. She is also the Director of the Identity Research Network (http://identityresearchnetwork.wordpress.com), which brings together interdisciplinary research on broad themes of identity.

Daniel Bray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. His main research and teaching expertise is in international ethics, globalization, democratic theory and environmental politics. His current research specifically focuses on cosmopolitan approaches to international relations and pragmatist democratic theory. He is the author of Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Representation and Leadership in Transnational Democracy (Palgrave, 2011) and Global Democratic Theory: A Critical Introduction (with Steven Slaughter) (Polity, 2015). He has also published in leading journals such as Millennium and International Theory.

Steven Slaughter is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His main publications are Liberty Beyond Neo-liberalism: A Republican Critique of Liberal Governance in a Globalising Age (2005), Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge (co-edited with Wayne Hudson 2007), Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Ben Isakhan, 2014) and Global Democratic Theory: A Critical Introduction (with Daniel Bray, 2015). His research interests focus upon globalization, global governance, democratic theory and transnational activism.