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Australia Debates the American Alliance
An Asia Pacific Foreign Policy and Defense Seminar featuring:
Dr. Peter Dean
Associate Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre,
Australian National University
Dr. Brendan Taylor
Interim Director, Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs,
Australian National University
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Australia has long been regarded as America’s closest and most loyal Asia-Pacific ally. The United States and Australia have, for instance, fought together in every major conflict since the First World War. Today, however, Australians for the first time in two generations are seriously debating the American alliance as longstanding public support for the relationship grows less certain and the bipartisan political consensus which has supported it throughout its seventy-year history comes under strain. In this seminar, the editors of an important new volume Australia’s American Alliance (Melbourne University Press, 2016) seek to account for Canberra’s questioning of the US-Australia alliance and examine its potential implications for the new Trump administration. What factors are eating away at the longstanding ‘Canberra consensus’ on the American alliance? What alternative architectures are being proposed and how to they measure up?
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Dr. Peter Dean is an Associate Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and is a specialist on Australian Strategic Policy, the US-Australia alliance, and Australian military operations. He was the 2014 Fulbright scholar in Australia-United States Alliance Studies and is currently a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author/editor of seven books including MacArthur’s Coalition: U.S. and Australian Military Operations in the SWPA 1942-45 (Forthcoming: University Press of Kansas, 2017).
Dr. Brendan Taylor is Interim Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, also at the ANU, from 2011-16. He is a specialist on great power strategic relations in the Asia-Pacific, East Asian ‘flashpoints’, and Asian security architecture. His publications have featured in such leading journals as The Washington Quarterly, International Affairs, Survival, Asia Policy, Asian Security, Review of International Studies and the Pacific Review. He is the author of Sanctions as Grand Strategy, which was published in the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Adelphi series, as well as American Sanctions in the Asia Pacific (Routledge, 2010). He is also the editor (with William Tow) of Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific security (Routledge, 2013); and (with Peter Dean and Stephan Fruehling) of Australia’s Defence: Towards a New Era? (Melbourne University Press, 2014).