Prof. Joseph Siracusa | The History & Utility of Diplomacy

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Professor Joseph Siracusa is the Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne. He's also the President Emeritus of Australia’s Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. 

Born and raised in Chicago and a long time resident of Australia, Joseph studied at the University of Denver and the University of Vienna and received his PhD at the University of Colorado (Boulder). He has worked at Merrill Lynch in Boston and New York; the University of Queensland; and for three years served as a senior visiting fellow in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University.

He has authored and co-authored 310 refereed publications including 75 books, monographs and chapters, 115 journal articles/entries and scholarly reviews, and 120 refereed proceedings. His publications include the following:

• America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist interpretation, 2 volumes (Praeger, 2010)
• Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)
• The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)
• A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race, 2 volumes (Praeger, 2013)
• Language of Terror: How Neuroscience Influences Political Speech in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)

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