Michael E. Clarke is Associate Professor at the National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. He has published extensively on the history and politics of Xinjiang, Uyghur separatism, nationalism and terrorism, Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia, Australian foreign and defence policy and global nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation dynamics. He is the author of Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia: A History (2011) and (with Stephan Fruehling and Andrew O'Neil), Australia's Nuclear Policy: Strategic, Economic and Normative Dimensions (2015).