Liam Moore

Dr Liam Moore is a lecturer in International Politics and Policy at James Cook University, Australia.

Liam’s work is grounded in a broad understanding of what International Relations is and should be. His research interests span the intricacies of politics in Oceania, through emerging debates around climate mobilities, and across discourses of normative change, contestation, complexity and international orders. 

Liam is a fellow of the Cairns Institute and a member of the working group on Lives, Equity, and Governance within the Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture at James Cook University, a research affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative’s Working Group on Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement at the University of London, a member of the Technical Working Group on Human Mobility under the Pacific Resilience Partnership, an adjunct member of the Future of Rights Centre at the University of Wollongong, a member of the Asia Pacific Academic Network on Disaster Displacement hosted by the Raul Wallenberg Institute and Lund University, and in 2023 was a visiting fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, at the University of Oxford. He has published articles with International Theory, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Forced Migration Review. He has also appeared in articles by the ABC, and contributes to pieces in The Conversation. 

International Relations, Climate Change Politics, Forced Migration and Human Mobility, Pacific Politics, Australian Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Small State Agency, Theories of Norms and Contestation

Climate mobilities, Pacific politics, Australian foreign policy, climate change politics and policy, forced migration; international security; global governance and institutions; and International Relations theory.