William Tow

William T. Tow, BA (History) Redlands, MA (International Relations), University of Southern California [USC], PhD (USC) is Professor in the Department of International Relations. He was previously Professor of International Relations both at the University of Queensland and at Griffith University and an Assistant Professor of International Relations at USC. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. His book publications include Asia-Pacific Security: US; Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle (co-editor: Routledge 2007); The Other Special Relationship: The United States and Australia at the Start of the 21st Century (co-editor: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2007); Asia Pacific Strategic Relations: Seeking Convergent Security (Cambridge, 2001), International Relations in the New Century (Co-Editor, Oxford, 2000), Encountering the Dominant Player (Columbia 1991), and The Limits of Alliance (co-authored, The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990). His articles have appeared in such international relations journals/monograph series as the IISS Adelphi Papers, Survival, Security Studies, China Quarterly, Current History, Contemporary Security Policy, Pacific Review, and International Affairs. He is co-editor of the Routledge Curzon book series on Asia-Pacific security. He has served on the Department of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Council and on the National Board of Directors of the Australian Fulbright Commission. His research interests focus on alliance politics, US security policy in the Asia-Pacific, security politics in the Asia-Pacific and Australian security policies.

Email: William.Tow@anu.edu.au.
Ph: +61 2 6125 8550