Dr Michael Clarke is Associate Professor at the National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU), and the co-director of the ANU-Indiana University Pan-Asia Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert on the history and politics of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China (PRC), Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia, Central Asian geopolitics, and nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation.
His academic articles have been published in Orbis, Asian Security, Terrorism and Political Violence, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Global Policy amongst others, while his opinion and commentary pieces have appeared in Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, CNN, The National Interest and The Diplomat. He is the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia – A History (Routledge 2011), co-editor (with Anna Hayes) of Inside Xinjiang: Analyzing Place, Space and Power in China’s Muslim Far North West (Routledge 2016) and co-editor (with Douglas Smith) of China’s Frontier Regions: Ethnicity, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations (I. B. Tauris 2016).
