SDSC Visitors

AO, BA (Sydney); MSc Econ, PhD (London)
Visiting Fellow
Dr Bell was formerly Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex (U.K.), and earlier a member of the Australian Diplomatic Service. She was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in 2005. Dr Bell's research interests are mainly in crisis management and the interaction of strategic, economic and diplomatic factors in international politics, especially as they affect U.S. and Australian foreign policies. Her latest book entitled A World Out of Balance: American Power and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century was co-published by The Diplomat magazine and Sydney-based Longueville Books, and her monograph Living with Giants (a study of Australian policy in a changing world power-balance) was published as a Strategy paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in April 2005. She has also authored a chapter entitled 'The International System and Changing Strategic Norms' in Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, 2006’.

B.Sc., PhD, (Nott)
Visiting Fellow
Dr Brabin-Smith joined the Centre in 2003, after some thirty years in the Department of Defence. He has held many senior positions in Defence, including Deputy Secretary for Strategic Policy, Chief Defence Scientist, First Assistant Secretary for International Policy, and First Assistant Secretary for Force Development and Analysis. He was a member of the Dibb Review team in the mid-1980s, and a member of the Defence Efficiency Review in the late 1990s. He has broad interests in Australian and international security policy. Two recent SDSC Working Papers by Dr Brabin-Smith are Australia's International Defence Relationships with the United States, Indonesia and New Zealand, WP No. 400, May 2006 and The Heartland of Australia's Defence Policies, WP No. 396, 2005.

BA (Monash)
Visitor

John McFarlane is a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He also has Visiting Fellow status at the University of New South Wales Defence Studies Forum at the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he is also undertaking a PhD in Political Science.

From January 1990 until February 1994, he was the Executive Director of the Australian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (AUS-CSCAP), located at the Australian National University. He also served as the inaugural Australian Co-Chair of the CSCAP Working Group on Transnational Crime, and in 2002 and 2003 as the Director of the Transnational and Homeland Security Program at the Australian Defence Studies Centre at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Mr McFarlane retired from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 1999, having most recently served as a Special Adviser in the Office of the Commissioner, and previously as the AFP's Director of Intelligence. Mr McFarlane also has a background in the Australian intelligence community and the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve.

He has written extensively on transnational crime and corruption and their impact on Asia-Pacific security and stability, as well as on issues such as military support for law enforcement, homeland security, police peace operations in disrupted states and the links between transnational crime and terrorism. He was the major contributor to the Strategic Insights paper Police Join the Front Line: Building Australia's International Policing Capability, published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in February this year. He was also the Co-Editor of the book Australia and Papua New Guinea: Crime and the Bilateral Relationship, published by the Australian Defence Studies Centre at the Australian Defence Force Academy in 2000.

LLB (Canterbury), QSO
Visiting Fellow
Mr Quigley is a New Zealander with Irish citizenship. He has a background in farming, law, politics and consultancy and is a former New Zealand Cabinet Minister. Derek co-founded the ACT New Zealand Political Party with Sir Roger Douglas in the mid 1990s and was Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee during the 1997-1999 Parliament. His Committee produced the Defence Beyond 2000 Report which became the blue-print for the Clark Government’s subsequent changes to New Zealand defence policy. Quigley chaired the Strategos Resource Management Review of New Zealand Defence 1988, and in 2000 reviewed the contract to purchase F-16 fighter aircraft from the United States Government. He has also carried out major reviews of Telecommunications, the Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Police and the Fire Service. For a number of years, Derek was Managing Director of the Hugo Consulting Group which provides strategic advice to many of New Zealand’s major businesses.

Mr Quigley was awarded the Queen’s Service Order in 2004 for Public Service. He is married to the author Susan McAffer. His latest publication, The War Against Defence Restructuring: A case study on changes leading to the current structure of New Zealand Defence, SDSC Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 166, was published in October 2006.

BA, LittB (UNE), MA (ANU), PhD (UNSW)
Visiting Fellow
Dr Alan Stephens joined the SDSC in 2004. Previously he has been a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, a principal research officer in the Australian Federal Parliament, the official historian for the Royal Australian Air Force, and a pilot in the RAAF, where his experience included a tour in Vietnam and an appointment commanding an operational squadron. Dr Stephens in the author or editor of 12 books, and the author of over 100 articles on defence, strategy and military history. His work has been published in 11 countries, and he has lectured in Australasia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. His research interest is contemporary strategy.

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