Anthony Burke

Anthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a principal at the Planet Politics Institute. He worked as a Principal Research Officer in the Senate's environment, arts and communications committee (1999-2000), where he co-authored reports on the ABC, the Jabiluka uranium mine, and Australia's response to climate change.

Anthony is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of political theory, philosophy, the environmental humanities, and international relations and law. He is an expert in global climate and biodiversity governance, green political philosophy, nuclear politics, and international security. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Series in Environmental Politics and Theory and a Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project.

His books include The Ecology Politic: Power, Law, and Earth in the Anthropocene (with Stefanie Fishel, MIT Press, 2025), Institutionalising Multispecies Justice (with Danielle Celermajer et al., Cambridge University Press, 2024), Uranium (Polity Press, 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).