Researcher Profile

  • Lecturer and International Relations Major Coordinator

  • International relations, security studies, global ethics, just war theory, Australian foreign and defence policy, social impacts of emerging technologies

  • Military ethics, political violence, hybrid warfare, problems of regional security, intelligence, cyber-espionage, cyber-norms, U.S.-Australia strategic relations, ethics of robotics and AI, political philosophy

  • Ford, S. 2021. "The evolution of the US-Australia strategic relationship." In The Future of the United States-Australia Alliance: Evolving Security Strategy in the Indo-Pacific McDonald, S. D., and A. T. H. Tan.

    Crawley, R., and S. Ford. 2018. "The Current State of Intelligence Studies." In Intelligence and the Function of Government: Melbourne University Press.

    Ford, S. 2017. "Weaponising Social Media." In Ethics Under Fire Challenges for the Australian Army: UNSW Press.

    Henschke, A., and S. Ford. 2017. "Cybersecurity, Trustworthiness and Resilient Systems: Guiding Values for Policy." Journal of Cyber Policy 2 (1).

    Lin, P., and S. Ford. 2016. "I, Spy Robot: The Ethics of Robots in National Intelligence Activities." In Ethics and the Future of Spying Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection: Routledge.

    Ford, S. B. 2015. "Military ethics and strategy: Senior commanders, moral values, and cultural perspectives." In Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics, 181-193.

    Ford, S. 2013. "Jus Ad Vim and the Just Use of Lethal Force Short-of-War." In Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War Just War Theory in the 21st Century: Routledge.

  • The Changing Character Of Competition And Conflict In The Indo-Pacific; Social, Cognitive, Ethical and Legal Aspects Of Big Data And Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; and Analytical Reasoning


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    Email Address shannon.ford@curtin.edu.au

 

Shannon Ford

Overview

Dr Shannon Brandt Ford is Coordinator of the International Relations Major at Curtin University. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Asia-Pacific International Society of Military Ethics and a Faculty Affiliate with the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance at Indiana University. Dr Ford has developed extensive knowledge of international security and had a wide-range of experiences in government having worked as a senior intelligence analyst and strategic policy-maker in the Australian Department of Defence. His research has been published in the Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Cyber Policy, Quartz, The Conversation, and The Interpreter.