As great power competition intensifies, the role of deterrence and the potential for escalation have taken on renewed importance in the security calculations of Australia and other US allies. How to manage deterrence and escalation is an inherently political question. For deterrence to be effective, allies have to find ways to agree and credibly commit to what they are willing to do for each other.
HE Ambassador Yamagami Shingo will speak on the challenge of deterrence in the Indo-Pacific that is facing the three allies Japan, Australia and the United States, followed by a panel discussion by contributing authors of Alliances, Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence.
Dennis Richardson, former Secretary of Department of Defence will reflect on the late Brendan Sargeant’s chapter, Australia’s management of the US Alliance.
Speakers
Professor Veronica L. Taylor is an international lawyer and socio-legal scholar. Her current work centres on the regulatory dimensions of international and domestic justice norms. She is internationally known for her work on rule of law promotion and its intermediation as foreign policy, commercial activity and professional practice. Veronica Taylor joined ANU in 2010 as Director of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) (2010-2014) (now the School of Regulation and Global Governance) and served as Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (2014-2016). Prior to joining the ANU, she was Director of the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.
HE Shingo Yamagami has served as the Director-General of Economic Affairs Bureau, and of Intelligence and Analysis Service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and also studied at Columbia University.
Professor Stephan Frühling teaches in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and has widely published on Australian defence policy, defence planning and strategy, nuclear weapons and NATO. Stephan was the Fulbright Professional Fellow in Australia-US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2017. He worked as a ‘Partner across the globe’ research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015 and was a member of the Australian Government’s External Panel of Experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper.
Professor Andrew O’Neil is Acting Dean of the Graduate Research School at Griffith University. He has published widely in the broad areas of international relations and strategic studies and is currently chief investigator on projects focusing on the Australia-US alliance funded by the Australian Research Council and Australia’s Department of Defence. Andrew is a former member of the Australian Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee on Security Issues and is a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an inaugural Wilson Center China Fellow. She continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a strategic planner at INDOPACOM. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016.
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Join us for a discussion on the role of deterrence and escalation in the security calculations of Australia and its US allies amid intensifying great power competition. Ambassador Yamagami Shingo will speak on the challenge of deterrence in the Indo-Pacific for Japan, Australia, and the US, followed by a panel discussion by contributing authors of the book 'Alliances, Nuclear Weapons, and Deterrence'.