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The UWA Defence and Security Program with Professor Peter Dean

Thu, 27 May 2021
18:00 - 20:00

*This event has now sold out* 
 

Western Australia is now on the frontline of Australia’s defence.  We sit at the crossroads of the Indo-Pacific strategic system that is the centre of strategic and economic competition this century.  In March, The University of Western Australia launched the Defence and Security Institute which aims to be a world leader in key aspects of defence science as well as Indo-Pacific defence and security policy and issues.


At our May event, Professor Peter Dean, the director of the Defence and Security Institute, will join us to discuss Western Australia, National Defence, and Force Posture.

 

About the Speaker

Professor Peter J. Dean was appointed as UWA’s first Chair of Defence Studies and the inaugural director of the UWA Defence and Security Institute.

Prior to the commencement, Professor Dean was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the UWA.  He is a Senior Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre and a Visitng Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University.

Peter has an extensive background in military and defence studies.  He has been a Fulbright Fellow and Endeavour Research Scholar in Australia-United States Alliance Studies as well as a non-resident fellow with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

Before joining UWA, Peter was a scholar at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, in The Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific where he held numerous research, teaching and leadership positions.  Peter’s time at ANU included eight years teaching strategy, military operations, and Australian defence policy at the Australian Command and Staff College.  He spent fourteen years as a member of the Australian Army (Reserve) with postings to infantry, commando, and training units.

Professor Dean was the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Army Journal, Global War Studies and the Military Studies Journal, and a former managing editor of the journal Security Challenges. He is a regular media commentator on Australian, United States, and regional defence issues.  An international award winning author, his most recent book (with Brendan Taylor and Stephan Fruhling), is After American Primacy: Imagining the Future of Australia’s Defence, (Melbourne University Press, 2019).

 


 

Ticket Type Price
Member Ticket $10.00 Sold out
Non Member Ticket $20.00 Sold out
The University Club of Western Australia
Seminar Room 1
Entrance 1, Hackett Dr, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

PO Box 1326, South Perth, Western Australia, 6951, Australia

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