Dr James Mortensen is a Lecturer and the HDR Program Coordinator at the ANU National Security College. He has three main research streams; the history and philosophy of political security, the use of technology in social control, and the security implications of climate change on Eastern Australia. Prior to his appointment at the NSC, James held the position of Research Fellow at the ANU’s Cyber Institute.

James loves watching birds, hates birdwatching, and can’t stomach writing a bio in the third person.

Books

Mortensen, James, Thompson, Sue, and William, Stoltz. National security in late colonial and early federation Australia. London; Palgrave McMillan, 2024 (under contract).

Journal articles

Mortensen, James, and Andrew J Gibson. ‘Mental Health, Messaging and Security in Times of Crisis’. National Security Journal 5 (3 September 2023). https://doi.org/10.36878/nsj20230309.02.

Bashfield, Samuel, and James Mortensen. ‘Self-Regulation, Internet Domains and Indian Ocean Territories’. Journal of Cyber Policy 0, no. 0 (2023): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2023.2238723.

Mortensen, James. A history of ‘domestic violence’ in Australian politics, History Australia, 20:2,254-269, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2186183

Bond, Isabelle & Mortensen, James. The changing value of Antarctica to Australia’s security policy, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77:3, 299-316, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2216139

Mortensen, James. On the Historical Breadth of Australian National Security, Australian Historical Studies, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2023.2212669

Mortensen, James. “The ‘Unbroken Course’: Finding the Unity of Bonhoeffer’s Religious Ethics.” Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies 2, no. 2 (2014). https://atfpress.com/product/chapter-6-the-unbroken-course-finding-the-u....

Book chapters

Allan, Kathryn, and James Mortensen. “Legal Identity Documenting in Disasters: Perpetuating Systems of Injustice.” In Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice, edited by Anna Lukasiewicz and Claudia Baldwin, 261–78. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. https://doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1007/978-981-15-0466-2_14.