Dr Eglantine Staunton

Dr Eglantine Staunton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (University of Queensland).

Her work focuses on

• mass atrocity prevention: both broadly speaking and with a particular country-expertise on Myanmar,
• France's foreign policy both in the Asia Pacific region and beyond,
• Norm research,
• Australia-France relations.

Her book France, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect brings together human protection, France’s foreign policy, and norm diffusion by reshaping our understanding of key principles and norms of human protection, correcting prevailing assumptions on France’s foreign policy, while making a wider contribution to the literature on how domestic and international norms interact. Her research has also been published in leading journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Ethics and International Affairs, International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Review, International Relations, Global Responsibility to Protect, Modern and Contemporary France, and in edited volumes. 

She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect, the leading journal for academic debates and analysis of best practices on the prevention and resolution of armed conflict, genocide and mass atrocities, and human protection broadly speaking.

Additionally, Eglantine has been committed to making a significant impact on policy and society. As a result, she has engaged with organisations such as the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, the United Kingdom House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, and the European External Action Service (EEAS). She also regularly contributes to The Interpreter, The Conversation, and ABC News programs. 

Eglantine is currently the Deputy Director Education Innovation of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. In addition to being an innovative and caring educator in Peace and Conflict Studies, she is a leader in curriculum and program design as illustrated by the fact that she spearheaded the creation of the Master of Peace and Conflict Studies in 2023. Her contributions have been acknowledged in 2023 by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Teaching Award for Excellence in Education and in 2025 by the High Commendation of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. 

Before joining the ANU in 2019, Eglantine completed her PhD at the University of Queensland and was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK), where she was also part of the executive team of the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

• Mass atrocity prevention,
• Civilian protection,
• France’s foreign policy,
• Australia-France relations,
• Norm research,
• The UN Security Council,
• Myanmar,
• New Caledonia,
• Indo-Pacific.