Dennis Rumley is a well-known political geographer from the UK ‘Newcastle School’, is the Foundation Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region as well as being outgoing Foundation Chair of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). He has taught and researched at the University of Western Australia, the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and more recently at Curtin University where he was Professor of Indian Ocean Studies. He is now Emeritus Professor at Curtin University.
Dennis Rumley has in excess of 140 publications, including more than a dozen books. His research has been principally on the geopolitics of Australia’s regional relations, first, with the Asia-Pacific, second, with the south-west Pacific and then with the Indian Ocean Region. The latter led to a series of collaborative projects on various aspects of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region with IORG colleagues, especially Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle. Many of the Indian Ocean books arising from this work have been reissued by Routledge in the past several years. His most recent book was written with Tim Doyle - The Rise and Return of the Indo-Pacific (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Dennis Rumley’s current research is centred on three main books – Global Geopolitical Change, The Age of Disengagement, and Australia-China Relations: An Agenda for Change. These are planned to be published within the next five years.