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Paul Dibb, AM, BA (Hons) (Nottingham), PhD (ANU),
Emeritus Professor, Chairman of the Advisory Board, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies

Email: Paul.Dibb@anu.edu.au

Research interests

Professor Paul Dibb

Australian defence policy, regional security, alliance relationships.

Key publications

  • The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Superpower, Macmillan Press, London, 1986, 2nd edition 1988.
  • Review of Australia's Defence Capabilities, Report to the Minister for Defence, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, March 1986.
  • Towards a New Balance of Power in Asia, Oxford University Press for International Institute for Strategic Studies, Oxford, 1995.
  • The Revolution in Military Affairs and Asian Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1997.
  • (with Robert D. Blackwill) America's Asian Alliances, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
  • 'The Future of International Coalitions', Washington Quarterly (Spring 2002)
  • Essays on Australian Defence, Canberra Paper No. 161, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2005.
  • 'America and the Asia-Pacific Region' in Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Eds D. Ball and R. Ayson, Allen & Unwin, 2006 .

Career highlights

Head of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (1991-2003); Deputy Secretary of Defence (1988-91); Director, Joint Intelligence Organisation (1986-88); Ministerial Consultant to the Minister for Defence (1984-86); Head of the National Assessments Staff, National Intelligence Committee (1974-78)

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