Professor William Maley is Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, an Australian lawyer, and author of Rescuing Afghanistan (2006), What is a Refugee? (2016), Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding (2018), The Afghanistan Wars (3rd ed, 2021), Diplomacy, Communication and Peace: Selected Essays (2021), and Australia: The Politics of Degraded Democracy (2024).

Experience

  • –present
    Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

Education

  • 1991 
    University of New South Wales, PhD in Politics

Honours

Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (FAIIA)

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