Nick Bisley is Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Australia. He is currently the Australian Member Committee Co-Chair of the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Nick’s research and teaching expertise is in Asia’s international relations, great power politics and Australian foreign and defence policy, and his latest book is Asian Crucible: Globalization, Geopolitics and the Contest for the Future, published by Bristol University Press.