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James Curran
Professor of political and diplomatic history at University of SydneyJames Curran is professor of political and diplomatic history at Sydney University and a foreign affairs columnist at The Australian Financial Review. Prior to joining Sydney University, he served in the Department of The Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Defence and at the Office of National Assessments. In 2013, he was the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin and in 2010 a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
His latest book is Australia’s China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear (New South Press, 2024). He is currently working on a book about former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating’s foreign policy and a short book on contemporary challenges facing Australian statecraft and diplomacy. His study of Australian rugby legend David Campese, The Last of the Dream Sellers (Scribe), was published in 2022.