Global Security Challenges - A View from Down Under

Summary:

Today we face an unprecedented spectrum of challenges including unrestricted great power competition, looming environmental catastrophe, a range of domestic and international governance challenges and the accelerating effects of the fourth industrial revolution.  US political and economic upheaval complicates matters further. The net result is a poly-crisis. So, what does it look from the view of one of a close US ally like Australia? And how best to adapt to this poly-crisis? Drawing on Blaxland's scholarship on international security affairs, coupled with insights from his experience as an Australian living in DC, this historically informed presentation offers a 'Down Under' perspective - a 'so what?' on the broad range of shared contemporary security issues.

Bio:
Dr John Blaxland is Director of the ANU North America Liaison Office and Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU). A former Australian military intelligence officer, he is a trusted and highly regarded historian who has authored or co-authored over a dozen broad-ranging works on international, military and security affairs. He is also an occasional media commentator.