Coral Bell

Dr Bell was formerly Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex (UK), and earlier a member of the Australian Diplomatic Service.

She was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in 2005. Dr Bell's research interests are mainly in crisis management and the interaction of strategic, economic and diplomatic factors in international politics, especially as they affect US and Australian foreign policies.

Her latest book entitled A World Out of Balance: American Power and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century was co-published by The Diplomat magazine and Sydney-based Longueville Books, and her monograph Living with Giants (a study of Australian policy in a changing world power-balance) was published as a Strategy paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in April 2005.

She has also authored a chapter entitled 'The International System and Changing Strategic Norms' in Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific (Allen & Unwin, 2006).