Peter Dean

About The Author

Peter J. Dean is Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor (Education) at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Fellow at the Perth US Asia Centre. He specialises in the ANZUS Alliance, and Australian military operations and strategic policy. Peter has been a Fulbright Fellow and Endeavour Research Scholar as well as a non-resident fellow with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. and Senior Fellow at the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University. He is on the editorial boards of the Australian Army Journal and Global War Studies. Peter is an author of eight books on Australian defence policy and military history, including The Architect of Victory (2010), (with Brendan Taylor and Stephan Fruehling) Australia’s American Alliance (2016) and MacArthur’s Coalition: United States and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area (2018).

Books by Peter Dean

Australia's American Alliance

Towards a New Era?

Editor Peter Dean, Stephan Frühling and Brendan Taylor
This book is specifically designed as a companion volume to Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era?The Australia-United States Alliance has been critical to Australian foreign and defence policy since the ANZUS Treaty was signed in 1951. For 63 years it has been an enduring feature of Australian ...
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Australia's Defence

Towards a New Era?

Editor Peter Dean, Brendan Taylor and Stephan Frühling
Almost half a century ago, the Australian National University's TB Millar penned a seminal book on Australian defence policy in the lead up to the Vietnam War. Today, Australia's defence forces are returning from long conflicts overseas, while the rise of China and the economic integration in the...
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