Dennis Rumley

Dennis Rumley is an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. He gained a PhD in political geography at the University of British Columbia in 1975 and taught at the University of Western Australia until 2007, apart from 1991-3, when he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo.
He has been an editorial board member of various international journals and has published widely in many areas of political geography and international relations, including electoral geography, local government, federalism, Australia’s regional relations, geopolitics, India-Australia relations and the Indian Ocean Region. He is chairperson of the Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. He is also Chief Editor of the Routledge international journal - Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

• The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge, 1991), co-edited with Julian Minghi
• Global Geopolitical Change and the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Perspective (Ashgate, 1996; reprinted 1998 and 2000; translated into Japanese in 1998), co-edited with Tatsuya Chiba, Akihiko Takagi and Yoriko Fukushima
• The Geopolitics of Australia's Regional Relations (Kluwer, 1999; reprinted 2001)
• India and Australia: Issues and Opportunities (Authors Press, 2004), co-edited with D. Gopal and since translated into Hindi
• Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean (South Asian Publishers, 2004), co-edited with Sanjay Chaturvedi
• Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region (South Asian Publishers, 2005), co-edited with Sanjay Chaturvedi
• Australia’s Arc of Instability: The Political and Cultural Dynamics of Regional Security (Springer, 2006), co-edited with Vivian Louis Forbes and Christopher Griffin
• Globalisation and Regional Security: India and Australia (Shipra, 2007), co-edited with D. Gopal
• The Security of Sea Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean Region (Maritime Institute of Malaysia), co-edited with Sanjay Chaturvedi and Mat Taib.

"Fisheries Exploitation in the Indian Ocean: Threats and Opportunities" (institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore), co-edited with Sanjay Chaturvedi and Vijay Sakhuja.