Australia's Strategic Future & Christmas Party

Hosted by: AIIA Act Branch

The event will start on: Monday, 06 December 2010 5:30 PM

And will end on: Monday, 06 December 2010 7:00 PM

At Stephen House, Canberra

32 Thesiger Court, Deakin , Canberra ACT

6232 4978     act.branch@aiia.asn.au

Posted by: act   

In his recent Quarterly Essay “Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing”, Hugh White has painted a stark picture of Asia's strategic evolution in the light of China's rise  and America's response, and what the resulting order might mean for Australian foreign and defence policy. In this talk he will take the argument in his essay further by exploring how other powers - Japan, India, Russia, Vietnam and Indonesia - might play into the events that will shape Australia's strategic future, and explore the implications for Australia's strategic choices.

Hugh White is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University. He publishes widely on Australian strategic and defence policy, and the regional and global security issues that most directly affect Australia. He has worked on Australian strategic, defence and foreign-policy issues for 30 years in a number of capacities inside and outside Government, including as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) 2000-2004, the Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Department of Defence 1995-2000, Senior Adviser on International Affairs to Prime Minister Bob Hawke 1990-1991, and Senior Adviser to the Defence Minister Kim Beazley 1984-1990. He was the principal author of Australia's 2000 Defence White Paper. His recent publications include: Quarterly Essay 39: Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing [Black Inc 2010]; A Focused Force: Australia's Defence Priorities in the Asian Century [Lowy Institute 2009] and 'Why War in Asia Remains Thinkable" [Survival Dec 08-Jan 09]. In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities, and was awarded Oxford's John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy in 1978.

After Prof. Hugh White has given his speech please join AIIA in the adjoining room for our Christmas party finger food and wine will be provided  to celebrate another fantastic year.