Professor Peter Dean

Professor Dean has an extensive background in military and defence studies. He was the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series, is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Australian Army Journal, Global War Studies and the Military Studies Journal and a former managing editor of the journal Security Challenges.

An international award-winning author he has authored numerous books, policy papers and articles on the US-Australian alliance, Australian defence policy, military operations and regional security. His books include Australia’s American Alliance (Melbourne University Press 2016), MacArthur’s Coalition (University Press of Kansas, 2018), After American Primacy: Imagining the Future of Australia’s Defence (Melbourne University Press, 2019) and Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945–1965 (The Australian National University Press, 2021).

Professor Dean has been a Fulbright Fellow and Endeavour Research Scholar in Australia-United States Alliance Studies, a Senior Fellow with the Perth USAsia Centre, as well as a non-resident fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.