Benjamin Zala

Ben Zala is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

He has worked on global security issues in think tanks and universities in the UK, US, and Australia. His current work focuses on the politics of the great powers and the management of nuclear weapons. His scholarship has appeared in over a dozen different peer-reviewed academic journals as well as blogs and newspapers around the world.

He is author, co-author, or editor of three books: The Global Third Nuclear Age (Routledge, 2025), Power in International Society (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and National Perspectives on a Multipolar Order (Manchester University Press, 2021).

Ben joined Monash in 2025 from the Australian National University and has previously been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Harvard University as well as holding positions at the University of Leicester and Chatham House.

Ben is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK where he contributes to the 5-year, European Research Council-funded project, Towards a Third Nuclear Age.