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Brendan Taylor, BSocSci (Hons) (Waikato), MA (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Senior Lecturer, Graduate Studies in Strategy & Defence, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies

Email: Brendan.Taylor@anu.edu.au

Research interests

Brendan Taylor head and shoulders

Korean Peninsula security issues, US-China relations, economic sanctions, Asia-Pacific security architecture.

Key publications

  • Sanctions as Grand Strategy, The Adelphi series, (London: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2010).
  • [with William Tow], 'What is Asian Security Architecture?', Review of International Studies, vol.36, issue 1, January 2010.
  • American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific, (London: Routledge, 2010).
  • [with Robert Ayson], 'Carrying China's Torch', Survival, Vol.50, No.4, August-September 2008.
  • ed., Australia as an Asia-Pacific Power: Friendships in Flux?, (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2007).
  • [With Desmond Ball and Anthony Milner], 'Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions', Asian Security, Vol.2, No.3, October 2006.
  • 'The Bush Administration and Asia-Pacific multilateralism: Unrequited Love?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 62, Issue 1, March 2008.
  • 'US-China Relations After September 11: A Long Engagement or Marriage of Convenience?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.59, no.2, June 2005.

Career highlights

ANU-MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Focus Group leader (since 2009); Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (since 2008); Graduate Studies Convenor, Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University (2007-2009); Course coordinator for SDSC core course 'Grand Strategies in the Asia-Pacific (since 2007); Lecturer, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (2006-2009); Post-doctoral Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, (2003-2006).

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