Global Security Challenges - A View From Down Under

John Blaxland is Director of the Australian National University (ANU) North America Liaison Office and professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU.  He is the first Australian recipient of a US Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative grant (2015-18). He is the author of numerous books on military history, intelligence and international security issues, including ¡°Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber¡± (UNSW Press, 2023). He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is a former military intelligence officer and has previously been a Chief Intelligence Staff Officer (J2) at HQ Joint Operations Command, defence attach¨¦ to Thailand and Myanmar, exchange officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC, Head of SDSC and Director of the ANU Southeast Asia Institute. At ANU, he teaches ¡°Honeypots and Overcoats: Australian Intelligence in the World¡± and supervises several PhD students.