Brendan Taylor

Biography

Brendan Taylor is Interim Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, also at the ANU, from 2011-16. He is a specialist on great power strategic relations in the Asia-Pacific, East Asian ‘flashpoints’, and Asian security architecture. His publications have featured in such leading journals as The Washington Quarterly, International Affairs, Survival, Asia Policy, Asian Security, Review of International Studiesand the Pacific Review. He is the author of Sanctions as Grand Strategy, which was published in the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Adelphi series, as well as American Sanctions in the Asia Pacific (Routledge, 2010). He is also the editor (with William Tow) of Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific security (Routledge, 2013); and (with Peter Dean and Stephan Fruehling) of Australia’s American Alliance (Melbourne University Press, 2016).