Student Profile

Shannon Tow, BA Hons (University of Queensland)

Shannon's thesis examines how Australia has conducted its diplomacy towards rising powers in the context of its pre-existing alliance relationships. Her thesis draws on extensive archival and interview-based research she has undertaken in both Australia and the United States. Her research interests lie primarily in areas of power transition, alliance politics, East Asian regionalism, and Australian foreign policy. She has published on Southeast Asian geopolitics in Contemporary Southeast Asia, as well as on Australian responses to East Asian regionalism in a co-authored chapter in Brendan Taylor (ed.) Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux (Routledge, 2007). Shannon served as a Strategic Asia and Southeast Asian Program consultant at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle in late 2004. She has also worked as a staffer in Federal Parliament to Queensland Senator Brett Mason between 2005 and 2007, as well as tutoring at the University of Queensland's School of Political Science and International Studies and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU.

Email: shannon.tow@anu.edu.au