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Donald Markwell


For the Montgomery, Alabama, talk radio personality, see Don Markwell

Donald John "Don" Markwell (born 19 April 1959) is an Australian social scientist and educational leader. He has been Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Government in the Australian Senate since October 2015, and was previously Senior Adviser on Higher Education to the Australian Minister for Education from 2013.

Markwell was born in Quilpie, Queensland. He was educated at the University of Queensland, the University of Oxford (where he was 1981 Rhodes Scholar for Queensland) and Princeton University, studying economics, law and international relations.

Markwell's academic works include contributions to international relations, political science, the history of economic thought, constitutional history and public law, and education. They address such questions as how to promote order and peace in the international society of states, the role of conventions in constitutional systems, and higher education for the 21st century.

His John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace was widely cited in the Keynesian revival of 2008 for its emphasis on international economic cooperation (including the international coordination of economic policies and the development of international economic institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank) and on economic causes of war and economic means to promote peace. It was also cited in a 2013 controversy for rebutting the claim of Niall Ferguson that the ideas in Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) were significantly influenced by Keynes's attraction to a German, Carl Melchior.


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