Prof Leszek Buszynski is an Honorary Professor in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC). From 1997 to 2010, he was professor of International Relations, at the International University of Japan (IUJ). From 1997 to 2001 he was Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations at the IUJ and concurrently Director of the IUJ Research Institute. He was also Also Director of the Research Institute of Asian Development from [RIAD] 1995 until 1997. He was associate professor in the International University of Japan from 1994 until 1997. From 1987 to 1993 Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Strategic Studies at the SDSC. Before then, he was Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore from 1980 until 1987. His latest book publication is Negotiating with North Korea: The Six Party Talks and the Nuclear Issue.

Hugh White AO is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.

His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs especially as they influence Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence, and as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities. 

He was the principal author of Australia’s 2000 Defence White Paper.

His major publications include Power Shift: Australia’s future between Washington and Beijing, [2010], The China Choice: Why America should share power, [2012], Without America: Australia’s future in the New Asia [2017], and How to defend Australia [2019]

Career highlights

1985-1991 Senior Adviser to Defence Minister and Prime Minister; 1995-2000 Deputy Secretary for Strategy, Department of Defence; 2001-2004 Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2004-2011 Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU .

Andrew Carr is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. His research focuses on Strategy (temporal factors), Middle Powers and Australian Defence Policy. He has published in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and the literary journal Meanjin. He has a sole authored book with Melbourne University Press and has edited books with Oxford University Press and Georgetown University Press. Dr Carr is the editor of the Centre of Gravity policy paper series. Dr Carr was the 2019 Fulbright Professional Scholar in Australian–U.S. Alliance Studies, based at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

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