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Biography
Beverley Loke is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University. She is also an affiliate with the ANU Australian Centre on China in the World, a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Beverley’s research agenda is motivated by complexity and contestation in an evolving global order. Her research interests include the politics of great power responsibility and hegemonic ordering, global knowledge production practices, China’s foreign policy, US-China relations and the international relations of the Indo-Pacific. She has published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, China Quarterly, The Pacific Review, Asia Security, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Review of International Studies and Asia Policy. She is also co-editor of the Routledge Book Series ‘Identity, Worldviews and Ideology in Global Politics’.
Prior to joining the ANU, Beverley was a Lecturer at the University of Exeter and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Melbourne), MA, PhD (ANU)
Research interests
Politics of Great Power Responsibility and Hegemonic Ordering; International Order; Global Knowledge Production Practices; China’s Foreign Policy; US-China Relations; International Relations of the Indo-Pacific
External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Exeter
2016 → 2022
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford
2014 → 2016
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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China’s coalition-building in the Indo-Pacific: strategies of connectivity and association
Loke, B. & Guo, X., 2025, In: Australian Journal of International Affairs. 79, 4, p. 552-569 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific
Loke, B. & Emmers, R., 2025, In: Australian Journal of International Affairs. 79, 4, p. 543-551 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
A contextual approach to decolonising IR: Interrogating knowledge production hierarchies
Loke, B. & Owen, C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Review of International Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus) -
COVID-19 and the International Politics of Blame: Assessing China’s Crisis (Mis)Management Practices
Loh, D. M. H. & Loke, B., 20 Mar 2024, In: China Quarterly. 257, p. 169-185 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access16 Citations (Scopus) -
Great Power Rivalry
Loke, B., 2023, Security Studies: An Introduction. P. D. W. A. M. M. (ed.). 4th ed. New York: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 192-209Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1 Citation (Scopus)