Wesley W. Widmaier is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University, Queensland and has been awarded two grants by the Australian Research Council totalling more than $600,000. For over a decade, he has advanced parallel research agendas into the construction of wars and crises as mechanisms of change. His research has been published in such journals as International Studies Quarterly and the Review of International Political Economy, and his work in the security field has been published as Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing Crises, Fast and Slow (2015). He was Program Chair (2014) and Section Chair (2015) of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.
