Brendan Taylor, BSocSci (Hons) (Waikato), MA (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Lecturer, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence

Email: Brendan.Taylor@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

Northeast Asian security, American foreign policy, economic statecraft, alliance politics.

Key Publications

• (with Dr Robert Ayson), 'Carrying China's Torch', Survival, Vol.50, No.4, August-September 2008, pp. 5-10.
• 'The Bush administration and Asia Pacific multilateralism: unrequited love?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 1–15.
• ed., Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux?, Routledge, London, 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, pp. 174–88.
• 'US-China Relations After September 11: A Long Engagement or Marriage of Convenience?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.59, no.2, June 2005, pp. 179-199.
• (with Dr Robert Ayson), 'Attacking North Korea: Why War Might Be Preferred', Comparative Strategy, 23:3 (July-September 2004), pp. 263-279.
• (with Clive Williams) eds., Countering Terror: New Directions Post '911', Canberra Paper No. 147, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, April 2003

Career Highlights

Graduate Studies Convener, Political Science and International Relations, ANU (since 2007); Course coordinator for GSSD program core course ‘Key Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific’ (since 2007); Course coordinator for GSSD program elective ‘The US and East Asian Security’ (since 2004); Post-doctoral Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2003–2006.