William Maley is Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, where he was Professor of Diplomacy from 2003-2021. He is also a lawyer, a Member of the Order of Australia, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. In November 2003, he received the AUSTCARE Paul Cullen Humanitarian Award for services to refugees.
He is author of Rescuing Afghanistan (London: Hurst & Co., 2006), What is a Refugee? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding (New York: Routledge, 2018), The Afghanistan Wars (London: Red Globe/Macmillan, 2021), Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace: Selected Essays (New York: Routledge, 2021), and Australia: The Politics of Degraded Democracy (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2024). In addition, he co-authored Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State (New York: Routledge, 2020) (with Niamatullah Ibrahimi); and The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023) (with Ahmad Shuja Jamal), and edited Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (New York: New York University Press, 1998). His most recent book, co-edited with Ali Yawar Adili and Paul Lushenko, is Afghanistan and International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2025).
