Ben Rich

Experience

• 2016–present
  Senior lecturer, Curtin University
• 2021–present
  Director, Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN)
• 2026–present
  Discipline Lead of Politics and History, Curtin University

Education

• 2016 
  Monash University, PhD

Publications

• 2026
  The role of online influencers in countering digital far-right messaging: the case of Hasan Piker and the Twitch network, Fast Capitalism
• 2022
  The Manosphere as an Online Protection Racket: How the Red Pill Monetizes Male Need for Security in Modern Society, Fast Capitalism
• 2022
  Strategic Hedging: A case study of 19th Century Siam, South East Asia Research
• 2022
  Fighting identities: Polarisation, nihilism, and the collapse of online discourse, Eureka Street
• 2021
  Political extremism, conflict identities and the search for ontological security in contemporary established democracies, Academia Letters
• 2019
  From Defense to Offense: Realist Shifts in Saudi Foreign Policy, Middle East Policy
• 2018
  Authoritarian Reformism in Saudi Arabia, E-International Relations
• 2017
  The Saudi State as an Identity Racketeer, Middle East Critique
• 2017
  Securitising Identity: the case of the Saudi State, Melbourne University Press
• 2016
  Foreign Fighters, Human Rights and Self-Determination in Syria and Iraq: Decoding the Humanitarian Impact of Foreign Fighters in Practice , International Community Law Review
• 2015
  The Impact of Jihadist Foreign Fighters on Indigenous Secular-Nationalist Causes: Contrasting Chechnya and Syria, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
• 2012
  Gulf War 4.0: Iran, Saudi Arabia and the complexification of the Persian Gulf equation, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations

Grants and Contracts

• 2022
  Confronting extremism and disinformation - an open-source short course for business professionals, community leaders, and youth

  Role:

  Primary Investigator

  Funding Source:

  US State Department

Research Areas

• International Relations (160607)
• Political Theory And Political Philosophy (160609)
• Political Science (1606)