Internationally published researcher with expertise on North Korea, international climate politics, teaching practice and learning design, and the lived experience of neurodivergence.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Independent researcher, Edge Dwellers Cafe
  • 2010–2023
    Senior lecturer, La Trobe University

Education

  •  
    Flinders University, PhD.

Publications

  • 2013
    DPRK Meets UNFCCC: An Introduction to North Korea’s Interactions with the International Climate Change Regime, International Review of Korean Studies
  • 2013
    Strategic Player, Economic Outlier: Regional Integration and North Korea’s Place in Northeast Asia, Griffith Asia Quarterly
  • 2011
    North Korea’s Parallel Economies: Systemic Disaggregation Following the Soviet Collapse, Communist and Post-Communist Studies
  • 2011
    North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Maintenance of the Songun System, The Pacific Review
  • 2010
    Rogue Proliferator? North Korea’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle & its Relationship to Regime Perpetuation, Energy Policy
  • 2010
    Climate Change and Regime Perpetuation in the DPRK, Asian Survey
  • 2009
    North Korea’s emergence as a nuclear weapons state and the end of the disarmament paradigm*, Global Change, Peace & Security
  • 2009
    The Implications of Climate Vulnerability for Regime Stability in North Korea, The International Journal of Climate Change
  • 2008
    Another Perfect Storm? Predictors of Radical Change in North Korea, Security Challenges

Research Areas

  • International Relations (160607)
  • Political Science (1606)

Contact Benjamin for

  • General
  • Consulting / Advising