Warwick Powell

Warwick Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains. Dynamics of a Zero Trust World (Routledge 2023), and numerous peer review articles on global supply chain digitalisation. He is a frequent media contributor on issues of international geopolitical economy, digitalisation and technology, with outlets such as TI Observer (a monthly publication of Taihe Institute), Aljazeera, CGTN, Guancha.cn, South China Morning Post, China Daily and Global Times.

Warwick's recent articles

A time for multipolar peace

A time for multipolar peace

NATO has been shaping up to go global for quite some time. It has singularly failed as a so-called ‘defensive alliance’, having been involved in assorted bouts of warfare and bloodshed in Europe over the past three decades. Having come into existence ostensibly as a defensive bulwark against the threat of the Soviet Union, the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 should have spelled the end of NATO. It didn’t.

Americas displacement anxiety and the decade of living dangerously

Americas displacement anxiety and the decade of living dangerously

The 2020s was once described by former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd as a decade of living dangerously. He was talking about the bilateral tensions between the U.S. and China. I would suggest that its a dangerous decade in large part because the collective west, led by the neocon political elite in Washington, are experiencing a protracted bout of displacement anxiety*.

The Middle East debacle and the Red Sea

The Middle East debacle and the Red Sea

Kinetic responses are a symptom of policy failures, not an answer to them.

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