Professor Brendan Taylor

Brendan Taylor is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs. He was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) from 2011-2016 and again from 2022-2025.

He is a specialist on great power strategic relations in the Asia-Pacific, East Asian ‘flashpoints’, and Asian security architecture.

His writings on these subjects have appeared in such leading journals as Survival, The Washington Quarterly, Australian Foreign Affairs, The Pacific Review, International Affairs and Review of International Studies.

He is the author or editor of 14 books, including The Four Flashpoints: How Asia Goes to War (Black Inc, 2018) and Dangerous Decade: Taiwan’s Security and Crisis Management (IISS, 2019).

He is a regular op-ed contributor to such publications as The Australian, Nikkei Asian Review, Foreign Policy, The Australian Financial Review, The Straits Times, The Interpreter, East Asia Forum and The Strategist.