Michael Wesley

Michael Wesley is a leading scholar on Australian foreign policy and Australia’s relations with its region. He has previously published Making Australian Foreign Policy (with Allan Gyngell) and the The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia 1996–2006. His 2011 book, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia won the John Button Prize for best writing on Australian public policy, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary awards.