Paul Dibb, AM, BA (Hons) (Nottingham), PhD (ANU),
Emeritus Professor, Chairman of the Advisory Board

Email: Paul.Dibb@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

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 and 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)