Associate Professor Christian Downie
Areas of expertise
- International Relations 160607
- Environmental Politics 160605
Biography
Christian Downie is an Associate Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He holds an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship and was previously a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Christian has worked as an advisor to several Australian Government agencies, including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Christian holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Australian National University, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in economics. He has spent time teaching or researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs among others, and he has worked in policy think tanks in Canberra and Washington D.C. Christian is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including publications in Regulation & Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, International Affairs, Business & Politics and Third World Quarterly. His latest book is Business Battles in the U.S. Energy Sector: Lessons for a clean energy transition.
For more information and list of publications visit his personal website: http://christiandownie.com/
Available student projects
I am always eager to hear from Masters and PhD student who have an interest in working on projects in the following areas:
- Global energy policy
- Global climate change policy
- US energy policy
- The G20
- Business actors and clean energy transitions
Please do feel free to get in contact if you would like to pursue further study in any of these areas and to see whether I would be a suitable supervisor.
However, before you do, please check your eligibility to pursue a Master of Philosophy or PhD at the ANU http://regnet.anu.edu.au/education/how-apply
Publications
- Trencher, G, Trencher, G, Downie, C et al 2020, 'Divestment trends in Japan's international coal businesses', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 124, pp. 1-14.
- Downie, C 2020, 'Strategies for Survival: The International Energy Agency's response to a new world', Energy Policy, vol. 141, pp. 1-7.
- Downie, C 2020, Taking US oil in a global crisis sounds good on paper, but it won't do much for Australia�s energy security, pp. online.
- Peake, G & Downie, C 2020, The future ain't what it used to be, pp. online.
- Downie, C 2020, 'Steering global energy governance: Who governs and what do they do?', Regulation & Governance.
- Colvin, R. M., Kemp, L., Talberg, A., De Castella, C., Downie, C., Friel, S., Grant, W. J., Howden, S. M., Jotzo, F., Markham, F. & Platow, M. J. 2020, 'Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions', Environmental Communication 14:1, 23-35, DOI:10.1080/17524032.2019.1630463.
- Downie, C 2019, 'Australian energy diplomacy', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 119-125.
- Downie, C 2019, It's time for Australia to scale up its energy diplomacy, pp. Online.
- Tienhaara, K and Downie, C 2019, 'Green theory and the G20', in S Slaughter (ed.), The G20 and International Relations Theory: Perspectives on Global Summitry, Edward Elgar Publishing, Gloucestershire, England, pp. vi-240.
- Downie, C & Williams, M 2018, 'After the Paris Agreement: What Role for the BRICS in Global Climate Governance?', Global Policy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 398-407pp.
- Downie, C 2018, 'Ad Hoc Coalitions in the United States Energy Sector: Case studies in the gas, oil and coal industries', Business and Politics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 643-668pp.
- Tienhaara, K and Downie, C 2018, 'Risky Business? The Energy Charter Treaty, Renewable Energy, and Investor-State Disputes', Global Governance, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 451-471.
- Downie, C & Drahos, P 2017, 'US institutional pathways to clean coal and shale gas: lessons for China', Climate Policy, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 246-260.
- Drahos, P & Downie, C 2017, 'Regulatory Unilateralism: Arguments for Going It Alone on Climate Change', Global Policy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 32-40.
- Downie, C 2017, 'One in 20: the G20, middle powers and global governance reform', Third World Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1493-1510.
- Downie, C 2017, 'Fighting for king coal's crown: Business actors in the US coal and utility industries', Global Environmental Politics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 21-39pp.
- Downie, C 2017, 'International negotiations', in Peter Drahos (ed.), Regulatory Theory: Foundations And Applications, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 323-338pp.
- Downie, C 2017, 'Business actors, political resistance, and strategies for policymakers', Energy Policy, vol. 108, pp. 583-592pp.
- Downie, C 2017, Time for China and Europe to lead, as Trump dumps the Paris climate deal, pp. 1-3pp.
- Downie, C 2017, What hope for making clean coal?, pp. 1-2pp.
- Downie, C 2017, Putting energy into foreign policy, pp. 1-3pp.
- Downie, C & Crump, L 2017, 'The role of the chair in informal international organisations: Australia�s Group of Twenty presidency', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 678-693pp.
- Downie, C 2016, 'Prolonged international environmental negotiations: the roles and strategies of non-state actors in the EU', International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 739-755.
- Downie, C 2015, 'Global Energy Governance in the G-20: States, Coalitions, and Crises', Global Governance, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 475-492.
- Crump, L & Downie, C 2015, 'Understanding Climate Change Negotiations: Contributions from International Negotiation and Conflict Management', International Negotiation, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 146-174.
- Downie, C 2015, 'Global Energy Governance: Do the BRICs have the energy to drive reform?', International Affairs (London), vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 799-812.
- Downie, C 2014, The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations, Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., Cheltenham, UK and Northamption, MA, USA.
- Downie, C 2014, 'Transnational actors in environmental politics: Strategies and influence in long negotiations', Environmental Politics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 376-394.
- Besley, D, Downie, C, Kennedy, S et al 2014, 'Carbon pricing in Australia: an early view from the inside', in John Quiggin, David Adamson and Daniel Quiggin (ed.), Carbon Pricing: Early Experience and Future Prospects, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK, pp. 25-48.
- Downie, C 2014, 'Transnational actors: nongovernmental organizations, civil society and individuals', in Harris, Paul G (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 176 - 186.
- Downie, C 2013, 'Three ways to understand state actors in international negotiations: Climate change in the Clinton years (1993-2000)', Global Environmental Politics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 22-40.
- Downie, C 2013, 'Shaping International Negotiations from within the EU: Sub-State Actors and Climate Change', Revue d'Integration Europeenne (Journal of European Integration), vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 705-721.
- Downie, C 2012, 'Toward an understanding of state behavior in prolonged international negotiations', International Negotiation, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 295-320.
- Macintosh, A & Downie, C 2008, 'Aviation and Climate Change: Can the airline industry continue to grow in a carbon-constrained economy?', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 253-265.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Regulating the Climate Finance Revolution * SUSPENDED 1/11/2020 - 31/10/2021 (Secondary Investigator)
- Who governs global energy? The role of informal international organisations (Primary Investigator)
- Harnessing financial markets and institutional investment to increase the penetration of clean energy in the Asia Pacific (Secondary Investigator)