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Biography
Hugh White AO is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.
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.
He was the principal author of Australia’s 2000 Defence White Paper.
His major publications include Power Shift: Australia’s future between Washington and Beijing, [2010], The China Choice: Why America should share power, [2012], Without America: Australia’s future in the New Asia [2017], and How to defend Australia [2019]
Career highlights
1985-1991 Senior Adviser to Defence Minister and Prime Minister; 1995-2000 Deputy Secretary for Strategy, Department of Defence; 2001-2004 Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2004-2011 Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU .
Qualifications
BA(Hons) (Melbourne), BPhil(Oxon)
Research interests
Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, global strategic affairs.
External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: AUKUS and the US alliance with Hugh White
White, H. & Kenny, M., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Audio/Visual Format
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This is going to be different: learning to live with Chinese power
White, H., 2023, In: Journal and Proceedings - Royal Society of New South Wales. 156, p. 5-26 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sleepwalk to War
White, H., 2022, 1 ed. Melbourne: Schwartz Media. 144 p. (ISSUE 86 2022; vol. 86, no. June-22)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The price of primacy with Hugh White
White, H. & Kenny, M., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Audio/Visual Format
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Democracy Sausage podcast: Australia in an age of instability
Kenny, M., Taflaga, M. & White, H., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Audio/Visual Format
Projects
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SDSC Post-doctoral Fellowship Agreement
Marston, D., Marston, D. & White, H.
29/09/08 → 30/07/11
Project: Research
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Sir Arthur Tange PhD Scholarship(s)
Bunce, J., Bunce, J. & White, H.
1/03/07 → 28/02/10
Project: Research