The East-West Center in Washington invites you to an
Indo-Pacific Foreign Policy and Defense Series Seminar:

An Indo-Pacific Power? Australia's Security Policy Under a New Government

Featuring:

Dr. Bec Strating
Director, La Trobe Asia
Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations 
La Trobe University Bundoora 

Dr. Charles Edel (Discussant)
Australia Chair and Senior Adviser, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies 

Dr. Satu P. Limaye (Moderator)
Vice President, East-West Center &

Director, East-West Center in Washington

East-West Center in Washington · An Indo-Pacific Power? Australia's Security Policy Under a New Government

In May 2022, Australia elected the Labor Party to Federal Government after 9 years of Liberal-National Coalition rule. Governing in a time of increased strategic competition and international power shifts, Coalition governments under Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison shifted Australia’s security policy in significant ways. Australia moved away from the traditional ‘pragmatic’ approach to the People’s Republic of China and moved closer to the United States. The concept that Australia did not have to choose between the two great powers ended. The enthusiasm for strategic minilaterals such as QUAD and AUKUS also indicated a new role conception for Australia in its international affairs – an Indo-Pacific power. Will the new government under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese consolidate these shifts in Australia’s role conception or seek to take it in a different direction? 

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Click here to find your local start time.  

Location: East-West Center in Washington 
1819 L Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Bec Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. Her research focuses on maritime disputes in Asia and Australian foreign and defense policy. Her third monograph Defending the Maritime Rules-Based Order (2020) was published by East West Center, where she was an Asian Studies Visiting Fellow in Washington DC in 2019. She has also been a visiting affiliate fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, an affiliated researcher at Georgetown University and a non-visiting fellow at the Perth US Asia Centre. 

Dr. Charles Edel is the inaugural Australia Chair and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He previously taught at the University of Sydney, where he was also a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre. Prior to that, Dr. Edel was a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College and served on the U.S. secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff from 2015 to 2017. In that role, he advised the secretary of state on political and security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. He has also been a global fellow at the Wilson Center and a Henry Luce scholar at Peking University's Center for International and Strategic Studies, and he was awarded the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. He is the coauthor of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019) and author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic (Harvard University Press, 2014). Currently, he is working on a book examining the United States' history of dealing with authoritarian regimes. In addition to his scholarly publications, his writings appear in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets. He also regularly offers foreign policy commentary on television and radio, including CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Australia’s RN, and NPR. He is a New York native and former high school history teacher in New York City, as well as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. Dr. Edel holds a PhD in history from Yale University and received a BA in classics from Yale College.

Dr. Satu P. Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington where he created and now directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. He publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. Among his current affiliations are Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the U.S.-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the U.S.-Australia Alliance, Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project. Recent publications include: Southeast Asia’s choices: Economic, political, and geopolitical integration face complications, India in East Asia: Focused on the Quad and Border Disputes with China, and Maintaining the Technology Edge: Strengthening US and Indo-Pacific Alliances to Counter Chinese Technology Acquisition (with Rose Tenyotkin).

The East-West Center in Washington invites you to an
Indo-Pacific Foreign Policy and Defense Series Seminar:

An Indo-Pacific Power? Australia's Security Policy Under a New Government

Featuring:

Dr. Bec Strating
Director, La Trobe Asia
Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations 
La Trobe University Bundoora 

Dr. Charles Edel (Discussant)
Australia Chair and Senior Adviser, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies 

Dr. Satu P. Limaye (Moderator)
Vice President, East-West Center &

Director, East-West Center in Washington

East-West Center in Washington · An Indo-Pacific Power? Australia's Security Policy Under a New Government

In May 2022, Australia elected the Labor Party to Federal Government after 9 years of Liberal-National Coalition rule. Governing in a time of increased strategic competition and international power shifts, Coalition governments under Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison shifted Australia’s security policy in significant ways. Australia moved away from the traditional ‘pragmatic’ approach to the People’s Republic of China and moved closer to the United States. The concept that Australia did not have to choose between the two great powers ended. The enthusiasm for strategic minilaterals such as QUAD and AUKUS also indicated a new role conception for Australia in its international affairs – an Indo-Pacific power. Will the new government under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese consolidate these shifts in Australia’s role conception or seek to take it in a different direction? 

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Click here to find your local start time.  

Location: East-West Center in Washington 
1819 L Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Bec Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. Her research focuses on maritime disputes in Asia and Australian foreign and defense policy. Her third monograph Defending the Maritime Rules-Based Order (2020) was published by East West Center, where she was an Asian Studies Visiting Fellow in Washington DC in 2019. She has also been a visiting affiliate fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, an affiliated researcher at Georgetown University and a non-visiting fellow at the Perth US Asia Centre. 

Dr. Charles Edel is the inaugural Australia Chair and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He previously taught at the University of Sydney, where he was also a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre. Prior to that, Dr. Edel was a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College and served on the U.S. secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff from 2015 to 2017. In that role, he advised the secretary of state on political and security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. He has also been a global fellow at the Wilson Center and a Henry Luce scholar at Peking University's Center for International and Strategic Studies, and he was awarded the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. He is the coauthor of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019) and author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic (Harvard University Press, 2014). Currently, he is working on a book examining the United States' history of dealing with authoritarian regimes. In addition to his scholarly publications, his writings appear in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets. He also regularly offers foreign policy commentary on television and radio, including CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Australia’s RN, and NPR. He is a New York native and former high school history teacher in New York City, as well as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. Dr. Edel holds a PhD in history from Yale University and received a BA in classics from Yale College.

Dr. Satu P. Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington where he created and now directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. He publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. Among his current affiliations are Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the U.S.-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the U.S.-Australia Alliance, Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project. Recent publications include: Southeast Asia’s choices: Economic, political, and geopolitical integration face complications, India in East Asia: Focused on the Quad and Border Disputes with China, and Maintaining the Technology Edge: Strengthening US and Indo-Pacific Alliances to Counter Chinese Technology Acquisition (with Rose Tenyotkin).