Dr Jeffrey Wilson

BEcSocSci (Hons) (Syd), PhD (ANU)

Jeffrey Wilson is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre and Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in the School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University. He received his Bachelor of Economics and Social Sciences (Hons) from the University of Sydney, and his PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. His research interests include international political economy, the role of corporate actors in global economic governance, and international resource politics in the Asia-Pacific region.

Jeffrey was awarded the University of Sydney Medal in 2006, and was the inaugural recipient of the Boyer Prize from the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2012. He has published widely on the political economy of resource security in Asia, and is the author of Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Key publications:

• Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
• ‘Northeast Asian resource security strategies and international resource politics in Asia’. Asian Studies Review, forthcoming 2013.
• ‘Resource Security: A new motivation for free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region’, The Pacific Review, 25(4) 2012: 429-453.
• ‘Chinese resource security policies and the restructuring of the Asia-Pacific iron ore market’. Resources Policy, 37(3) 2012: 331-339.
• ‘Resource nationalism or resource liberalism? Explaining Australia’s approach to Chinese investment in its minerals sector’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65(3) 2011: 283–304.
• ‘The Baosteel Group – A national champion amongst national champions’, in Yi-Chong Xu (ed), The Political Economy of State-Owned Enterprise Reform in China and India (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
• ‘The hidden resource agenda within Australia’s Asian free trade agreements’, The Conversation, 4 October 2012.
• ‘Australia-China: Some Faulty Economic Assumptions’, Lowy Interpreter, 22 July 2011.
• ‘China’s Rare Earths and Global Resource Security’, ANU–MASI Policy Background Paper, No. 5, 30 September 2011.