William Briggs has been variously a teacher, a journalist and political activist. He worked as a teacher of English and History for a number of years, and as a journalist. For 3 years he lived and worked in the Soviet Union as a foreign correspondent. Later, he resumed full-time study, completing an MA and a PhD in International Relations from Deakin University. Since then he has remained affiliated with Deakin and written extensively on issues of political theory, international politics and political economy. He is the author of three previous books, two of which have been with Zero Books. He is a regular contributor to online newsletter Pearls and Irritations and contributes to the online magazine Independent Australia. Much of this has been around the broad issue of the rise of China, its ramifications for Australia and the USA, and on the rising tensions and threats of war that stem from the United States policies towards China, while still maintaining a critical position in relation to Chinese domestic policy. He lives in Melbourne.
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