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= Brendon J. Cannon =

Brendon J. Cannon is an Assistant Professor of International Security at Khalifa University’s Institute of International and Civil Security in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Biography
Cannon earned a Ph.D. in Political Science with an emphasis on Comparative Politics and International Relations at the University of Utah in 2009. He held previous academic positions at Kisii University Kenya and Gollis University in Somaliland. He joined Khalifa University in 2016.

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, and shifting distributions of power across the Indo-Pacific, paying particular attention to the Western Indian Ocean Basin, to include East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Cannon’s articles appear in International Politics, Asian Security , Defence Studies , The International Spectator , Small Wars and Insurgencies , African Security , The Journal of Eastern African Studies , and Third World Quarterly. He has two books on the Indo-Pacific geography of strategies: Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age (co-edited with Kei Hakata, Routledge, 2022) and Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical Realities (co-edited with Ash Rossiter, Routledge, 2020).