James Cotton
James Cotton (PhD, London School of Economics) is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, and the author of The Australian School of International Relations (2013) and Australia and the United Nations (2012), among numerous other works. He has had academic appointments in the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Australia, is a past editor of The Australian Journal of International Affairs, and was a foundation member (1997-2003) of the Foreign Minister's Advisory Council, convened by the Foreign Minister of Australia.
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In November 1915 he was granted a special degree – despite not completing his final year of studies – as he had enlisted (having earlier been rejected) in the AIF; he was also awarded the University of Western Australia’s first Rhodes Scholarship. Qualifying for the officers corps he was commissioned in January 1916, where he embarked on the Miltiades for the European theatre in February.