He is the author of Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against all Odds (in press, Oxford University Press); Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspirations Confront Democratic Legitimacy (2017, Routledge); and Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands (2015, University of Hawaii Press); as well as numerous articles, edited books and book chapters. He holds honorary appointments at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University, and the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, and is the deputy editor of Small States and Territories Journal. He served as an Asia Pacific analyst for Freedom in the World.