A National Asset

50 Years of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Desmond Ball, Andrew Carr

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781760460570
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC). The Centre is Australia's largest body of scholars dedicated to the analysis of the use of armed force in its political context and one of the earliest generation of post-World War II research institutions on strategic affairs. The book

Table of contents

• About the Book
• Contributors
• Foreword: From 1966 to a Different Lens on Peacemaking
• Preface
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• List of Plates
• Strategic Thought and Security Preoccupations in Australia
• Strategic Studies in a Changing World
• Strategic Studies in Australia
• From Childhood to Maturity: The SDSC, 1972–82
• Reflections on the SDSC’s Middle Decades
• SDSC in the Nineties: A Difficult Transition
• Researching History at SDSC
• Same Questions, Different Organisation: SDSC’s Fifth Decade
• SDSC at 50: Towards a New Golden Age
• 50th Anniversary Celebratory Dinner Keynote Speech: ‘To See What is Worth Seeing’
• Conference Program – SDSC at 50: New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2.0
• Appendix: Key SDSC Publications
• The SDSC team, December 2015
• Plate 1 Dr T.B. Millar, head of SDSC, 1966–71, 1982–84
• Plate 2 Professor Sir John Crawford and Professor Anthony Low, chairmen of the SDSC Advisory Committee, 1966–67 and 1973–75 respectively
• Plate 3 Professor J.D.B. Miller, head of the Department of International Relations, 1962–87, and member of the SDSC Advisory Committee, 1966–87
• Plate 4 Professor Hedley Bull, joint head of the Department of International Relations and member of the SDSC Advisory Committee, 1967–77
• Plate 5 Robert O’Neill, head of SDSC, 1971–82
• Plate 6 Colonel J.O. Langtry, executive officer, and Desmond Ball, research fellow, 1975
• Plate 7 Joli and Peter Hastings, former research assistant and senior research fellow, May 1986
• Plate 8 Robert O’Neill (right) with Gunther Patz, former PhD student, 1992
• Plate 9 Colonel J.O. Langtry, executive officer, October 1983
• Plate 10 Billie Dalrymple, secretary; Desmond Ball, deputy head; and Ram Subramanian, visiting fellow, Thredbo, 1982
• Plate 11 Ray Funnell, Robert O’Neill, Suzanne Funnell, Billie Dalrymple and Mara Moustafine, 1988
• Plate 12 Paul Dibb, senior research fellow, 1984
• Plate 13 Desmond Ball, head of SDSC, at the entrance to the Pine Gap station, July 1984
• Plate 14 US President Jimmy Carter and Desmond Ball, April 1985
• Plate 15 Desmond Ball and Australian Federation of University Women, Queensland fellow Samina Yasmeen at SDSC, 1985–86
• Plate 16 Benjamin Lambeth and Ross Babbage, senior research fellows, and Ray Funnell, July 1986
• Plate 17 Mr R.H. Mathams, member of the SDSC Advisory Committee, 1985–89
• Plate 18 Andy Mack, senior research fellow, 1983–85
• Plate 19 Greg Fry, research fellow, 1983–86
• Plate 21 Andrew Butfoy, SDSC’s first PhD student, 1984–88
• Plate 22 Nicola Baker, PhD student, 1995–2000
• Plate 23 Dr Fedor Mediansky, Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Desmond Ball, at an SDSC conference, c. 1984
• Plate 24 Leszek Buszynski and Ross Babbage, senior research fellows, establishing the first SDSC Master’s Program, 1987
• Plate 25 Tina Lynham, administrator, SDSC Graduate Program, 1987–98
• Plate 26 Denis McLean, visiting fellow, and Jena Hamilton, research assistant (1989–2002), 1989
• Plate 27 Stewart Woodman, Sandy Gordon and Mike Gilligan, senior research fellows, Kioloa, 1992
• Plate 28 Professor Paul Dibb, head of SDSC, Kioloa, 1992
• Plate 29 Elza Sullivan, secretary; Helen Hookey, research assistant; and Liu Jinkun, visiting fellow, Kioloa, 1991
• Plate 30 Dr L. Buszynski; Professor R.G. Ward, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies; Mr Kenneth R. Peacock, Rockwell Australia; and Professor Desmond Ball, October 1992
• Plate 31 Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade; Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Robert O’Neill, at SDSC’s 30th anniversary conference, 1996
• Plate 32 Professor Robert O’Neill and Professor Paul Dibb, Yukio Satoh, Japanese ambassador to Australia, and Professor Desmond Ball, at SDSC’s 30th anniversary conference, 1996
• Plate 33 16th Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, December 2001
• Plate 34 Colin Plowman, Tun Tun Aung, Professor Desmond Ball and a Thai army ranger, on the Salween River, June 2002
• Plate 35 Dr Alan Dupont, senior research fellow, at an SDSC media briefing on the Iraq War, March 2003
• Plate 36 Professor Desmond Ball, Dr Ron Huisken, senior research fellow, and Ray Funnell, at an SDSC media briefing on the Iraq War, March 2003
• Plate 37 Professor Paul Dibb, the Hon. Kim Beazley, and Professor Hugh White, head of SDSC, at Dibb’s retirement dinner, May 2005
• Plate 38 Professor James Fox, director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Hugh White, at Dibb’s retirement dinner, May 2005
• Plate 39 Professor David Horner at the launch of his book Strategic Command, 6 June 2005
• Plate 40 Meredith Thatcher, research assistant; Dr Coral Bell, visiting fellow; Dr Brendan Taylor, post-doctoral fellow; and Betty McFarlane, at the investiture of Bell’s Order of Australia (AO), Government House, Canberra, 2 September 2005
• Plate 41 The Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence (GSSD) team: Dr Chris Chung, deputy director; Ms Ping Yu, program administrator; Dr Robert Ayson, director; Mrs Sarah Flint, deputy program administrator; and Dr Brendan Taylor, lecturer, April 2006
• Plate 42 SDSC staff with the GSSD students, Kioloa, April 2006
• Plate 43 The SDSC team, May 2006
• Plate 44 Professor Paul Dibb, the Hon. Kim Beazley, 2005
• Plate 45 David Horner, Robert Ayson, Christopher Michaelsen, visiting guest Professor Reddy, Professor Ross Babbage, Brendan Taylor, John McFarlane
• Plate 46 Dr Stephan Frühling at the launch of his book A History of Australian Strategic Policy since 1945, 2009
• Plate 47 Professor Hugh White teaching a GSSD class, c. 2010
• Plate 48 Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans AC QC, Professor Desmond Ball, Vice-Chancellor Ian Young, Professor Andrew Macintyre at the awarding of The Australian National University’s Peter Baume Award to Desmond Ball, 2013. Photo by Charlie White.
• Plate 49 Lisa McKibbin, Dr John Blaxland, Professor David Horner and Dr Rhys Crawley at the launch of The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO 1949–1963, 2014
• Plate 50 Professor Desmond Ball, His Excellency, General the Honourable Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), at the investiture of Ball’s Order of Australia (AO), 2014
• Plate 51 Professor Hugh White, His Excellency, General the Honourable Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), at the investiture of Ball’s Order of Australia (AO), 2014
• Plate 52 Student with Chief of the Defence Force Air Marshal Mark Binskin at graduation for the Australian Command and Staff College, 2014
• Plate 53 Graduating class of 2014 from the Australian Command and Staff College, 2014
• Plate 54 Graduation address delivered by Chief of the Defence Force Air Marshal Mark Binskin, graduation for the Australian Command and Staff College, 2014
• Plate 55 Dr Emma Campbell with young North Korean boy, North Korea, 2014
• Plate 56 Professor Joan Beaumont with Prime Minister Tony Abbott, receiving the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History, 2014
• Plate 57 Professor Brendan Taylor, head of SDSC, at the launch of Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS), 2015
• Plate 58 Professor Evelyn Goh, 2015
• Plate 59 Dr James Curran, Dr Andrew Carr and Dr John Blaxland, seminar on Australian Foreign Policy, 2015
• Plate 60 General David Petraeus and Professor Daniel Marston, during class at the Australian Command and Staff College, 2015
• Plate 61 Military and Defence Studies Program team, Australian Command and Staff College, Kathryn Brett, Daniel Marston, Belinda Corujo, Andrew Frain, Jack Bowers, Tamara Leahy, 2015
• Plate 62 Visiting Fellow Dr Richard Brabin-Smith, Dr Amy King, GRADNAS launch, 2015
• Plate 63 PhD student Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto, GRADNAS launch, 2015
• Plate 64 Dr John Blaxland, GRADNAS launch, 2015
• Plate 65 Dr Greg Raymond, GRADNAS launch, 2015
• Plate 66 Attending scholars and graduate students at launch of GRADNAS, 2015
• Plate 67 Dr Stephan Frühling, visiting research fellow, NATO Defence College, 2015
• Plate 68 Former head of ASIO David Irvine with SDSC students at ‘Wine, Cheese and Wisdom’ seminar, 2015
• Plate 69 Professor Joan Beaumont, Ambon Island, Indonesia, c. 2015
• Plate 70 Professor Daniel Marston listens to a guest lecturer for his ‘Art of War’ class, Australian Command and Staff College, 2015