Prof Hugh White & Prof Paul Dibb

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June 24, 2009

"Defence White Paper - The experts' view

Professor Hugh White and Professor Paul Dibb are from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.  The Rudd Govenrment recently presented its Defence White Paper and the Press Club has invited these experts to share their opinion and view.

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Professor Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs especially as they influence Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence, and as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities.

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Professor Paul Dibb's resume includes Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1991-2003); Deputy Secretary of Defence (1988-91); Director, Joint Intelligence Organisation (1986-88); Ministerial Consultant to the Minister for Defence (1984-86); Head of the National Assessments Staff, National Intelligence Committee (1974-78).  Professor Dibb has also written seveal books and papers including:

The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Superpower, Macmillan Press, London, 1986, 2nd edition 1988.
Review of Australia's Defence Capabilities, Report to the Minister for Defence, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, March 1986.
Towards a New Balance of Power in Asia, Oxford University Press for International Institute for Strategic Studies, Oxford, 1995.
The Revolution in Military Affairs and Asian Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1997.
(with Robert D. Blackwill) America's Asian Alliances, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
'The Future of International Coalitions', Washington Quarterly (Spring 2002)
Essays on Australian Defence, Canberra Paper No. 161, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2005.
'America and the Asia-Pacific Region' in Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Eds D. Ball and R. Ayson, Allen & Unwin, 2006 .