Daniel McCarthy is Associate Professor in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD from Aberystwyth University. His research specializations and academic interests include International Relations theory, Science and Technology Studies, theories of social power, historical materialism, American foreign policy, and technological innovation. McCarthy serves as Coordinator of the Master of International Relations program, guiding postgraduate students in advanced studies of global politics and international affairs.

McCarthy's career at the University of Melbourne has focused on exploring the intersections of technology, power, and international politics. His major publications include the monograph Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory: The Power and Politics of US Foreign Policy and the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), which analyzes the role of information technology in shaping American foreign policy. Other key works are Technology and World Politics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2017); Technology and ‘the International’ or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Determinism, published in Millennium (2013); Open Networks and the Open Door: American Foreign Policy and the Narration of the Internet in Foreign Policy Analysis (2011); The Concept of Transparency in International Relations: Towards a Critical Approach, co-authored with M. Fluck in the European Journal of International Relations (2017); Infrastructure and the Integral State: Internal Relations, Processes of State Formation and Gramscian State Theory in the Review of International Studies (2023); and Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order. These contributions have advanced critical understandings of socio-technical dimensions in international relations, emphasizing materialism and power dynamics in global governance and foreign policy.

Professional Email: daniel.mccarthy@unimelb.edu.au