Alek Hillas Author

Dr. Aiden Warren is a Professor of International Relations based at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of international security, U.S. national security and foreign policy, U.S. politics (ideas, institutions, contemporary and historical), international relations (especially great power politics), issues associated with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation, non-proliferation and arms control and emerging technologies. Dr. Warren is a Fulbright scholar and has spent extensive time in Washington DC completing fellowships at the James Martin Centre of Non-proliferation, the Arms Control Association (ACA) and Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP) at George Washington University. He is the author of Revisiting the First Cold War (2026) and editor of Global Security in an Age of Crisis (2024).

Alek Hillas is a researcher at the Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI), RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are in the nexus of emerging technologies, global security and diplomacy, and international humanitarian law. Alek has published articles on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) with the Yale Journal of International Affairs (2017), UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (2018), Small Wars & Insurgencies (2020), Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2021), Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2021), Cornell International Affairs Review (2021), and The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development (2022), and chapters in several edited collections (2020, 2021, and 2023). Alek received two RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence awards, first place in the German-language Goethe Poetry Competition held at the University of Melbourne, and the Asian Language Award Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Chinese at RMIT University, awarded by the Australian-Asian Association of Victoria.