Email: andy@butfoy.com (or contact via FaceBook/Messenger)
Originally from London, I moved to Australia many years ago. After spells in Canberra and Melbourne I now live on 21 acres of bush in Gippsland, Victoria. (Amber has created a separate blog describing flora and fauna on the property.) For most of my working life I have been an academic specialising in global security issues. I left the university system to escape a Kafkaesque management style and focus more on other interests, mostly woodwork and writing fiction (e.g., Rogue Republic, a political thriller set in Washington).
Expertise
Andy is a specialist in international relations. His research interests are primarily in:
• Global arms control – with a focus on nuclear weapons.
• The relationship between US power and world order.
He has published about ninety works of non-fiction. This includes media commentary, longer analyses in academic journals, and two singled-authored books on international security.
Biography
From 1990 to 2014 Andy was Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He taught a postgraduate class on Strategic Studies, and two undergraduate classes on US Foreign Policy and International Arms Control. In addition, he managed the Masters program in International Relations. He also supervised a number of theses (Honours, MA and PhD) on topics including: the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime; international weapons inspections; responses to Iranian nuclear policy; US-Russian cooperative threat reduction; US nuclear weapons planning; US foreign policy; peace-keeping and humanitarian intervention; UN collective security and peace enforcement; peace building; Australian defence policy; and Chinese military modernisation.
Prior to his appointment at Monash, Andy was Senior Lecturer at the UK Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and before that Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (specialising in NATO strategy). In addition, Andy has tutored at the London School of Economics and the Australian National University, and has run seminar programs at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
He has a PhD from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra, an MA in War Studies from Kings College London, and a BA Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex.
Andy comes from Kensal Green in London, and attended Willesden High School.
Expertise
Andy is a specialist in international relations. His research interests are primarily in:
• Global arms control – with a focus on nuclear weapons.
• The relationship between US power and world order.
He has published about ninety works of non-fiction. This includes media commentary, longer analyses in academic journals, and two singled-authored books on international security.
Biography
From 1990 to 2014 Andy was Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He taught a postgraduate class on Strategic Studies, and two undergraduate classes on US Foreign Policy and International Arms Control. In addition, he managed the Masters program in International Relations. He also supervised a number of theses (Honours, MA and PhD) on topics including: the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime; international weapons inspections; responses to Iranian nuclear policy; US-Russian cooperative threat reduction; US nuclear weapons planning; US foreign policy; peace-keeping and humanitarian intervention; UN collective security and peace enforcement; peace building; Australian defence policy; and Chinese military modernisation.
Prior to his appointment at Monash, Andy was Senior Lecturer at the UK Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and before that Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (specialising in NATO strategy). In addition, Andy has tutored at the London School of Economics and the Australian National University, and has run seminar programs at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
He has a PhD from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra, an MA in War Studies from Kings College London, and a BA Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex.
Andy comes from Kensal Green in London, and attended Willesden High School.
