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Personal profile
Biography
Ben Zala is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University.
He has worked on global security issues in think tanks and universities in the UK, US, and Australia. His current work focuses on the politics of the great powers and the management of nuclear weapons. His scholarship has appeared in over a dozen different peer-reviewed academic journals as well as blogs and newspapers around the world.
He is author, co-author, or editor of three books: The Global Third Nuclear Age (Routledge, 2025), Power in International Society (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and National Perspectives on a Multipolar Order (Manchester University Press, 2021).
Ben joined Monash in 2025 from the Australian National University and has previously been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Harvard University as well as holding positions at the University of Leicester and Chatham House.
Ben is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK where he contributes to the 5-year, European Research Council-funded project, Towards a Third Nuclear Age.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
International Relations, PhD, University of Birmingham
Award Date: 3 Jul 2013
Bachelor of International Relations (Hons), La Trobe University
Award Date: 5 May 2006
External positions
Honorary Fellow (Third Nuclear Age Project), University of Leicester
1 Nov 2020 → 31 Jul 2025
Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1 Aug 2018 → 30 Jun 2019
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The Global Third Nuclear Age: Clashing Visions for a New Era in International Politics
Futter, A., Castelli, L., Hunter, C., Samuel, O., Silvestri, F. & Zala, B., 2025, 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge. 275 p. (Routledge Global Security Studies)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century
Bisley, N., Eckersley, R., Hameiri, S., Kirk, J., Lawson, G. & Zala, B., 2022, In: Australian Journal of International Affairs. 76, 2, p. 138-160 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
11 Citations (Scopus) -
National perspectives on a multipolar order: Interrogating the global power transition
Zala, B. (Editor), Oct 2021, Manchester UK: Manchester University Press. 232 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
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Rising powers and order contestation: disaggregating the normative from the representational
Newman, E. & Zala, B., 4 May 2018, In: Third World Quarterly. 39, 5, p. 871-888 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
29 Citations (Scopus) -
Great power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society
Zala, B., Apr 2017, In: Review of International Studies. 43, 2, p. 367-388 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
17 Citations (Scopus)