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International relations, security studies, and geopolitics. Japan, Turkey, India, Finland, Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean, East Africa/Horn of Africa, Middle East/Persian Gulf.
Brendon J. Cannon is an Assistant Professor of International Security at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research is at the nexus of international relations, security studies, and geopolitics. He has published on topics related to regional security and geopolitics, the arms industry in Japan, Turkey, India, and Finland, as well as the shifting distributions of power across the Indo-Pacific with a special focus on the western Indian Ocean region (to include East Africa/Horn of Africa and the Middle East/Persian Gulf), as well as East Asia, particularly Japan. Brendon’s articles appear in Global Policy, Defence Studies, International Politics, Asian Security, and Third World Quarterly. He has written expansively on the Quad in the Indo-Pacific and theorized how classical geopolitical theory explains alliance building on the rim of Eurasia.
Brendon is a contributor to think tanks such as ORF in Delhi, Trends in Abu Dhabi, RUSI in London, AthenaLab in Santiago, and is an Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. His books include Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age (Routledge, 2022, with Kei Hakata) and Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical Realities (Routledge, 2020, with Ash Rossiter).
He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Utah and has held previous academic positions in Tokyo and Nairobi.
Brendon J. Cannon is an Assistant Professor of International Security at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research is at the nexus of international relations, security studies, and geopolitics. He has published on topics related to regional security and geopolitics, the arms industry in Japan, Turkey, India, and Finland, as well as the shifting distributions of power across the Indo-Pacific with a special focus on the western Indian Ocean region (to include East Africa/Horn of Africa and the Middle East/Persian Gulf), as well as East Asia, particularly Japan. Brendon’s articles appear in Global Policy, Defence Studies, International Politics, Asian Security, and Third World Quarterly. He has written expansively on the Quad in the Indo-Pacific and theorized how classical geopolitical theory explains alliance building on the rim of Eurasia.
Brendon is a contributor to think tanks such as ORF in Delhi, Trends in Abu Dhabi, RUSI in London, AthenaLab in Santiago, and is an Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. His books include Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age (Routledge, 2022, with Kei Hakata) and Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical Realities (Routledge, 2020, with Ash Rossiter).
He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Utah and has held previous academic positions in Tokyo and Nairobi.
