Lachlan McNamee

Lecturer of Politics, Monash University, Melbourne

Lachlan McNamee is a lecturer of politics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and received his PhD from Stanford University in 2019. He is the author of Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop (Princeton, 2023).

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Nations and empires

Settler colonialism

Displacing and destroying peoples by colonisation is not just a historical Western evil but a global and contemporary one

Lachlan McNamee