Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security

Please join us for the launch of Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia’s Security (La Trobe University Press/Black Inc) by Professor Joanne Wallis and Professor Rebecca Strating. https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/girt-sea-0.

Hear from the authors as they discuss their reasons for reimagining how Australia should understand its strategic challenges and find lasting security. To do this, the authors turn their gazes to Australia's near region, focusing on the six maritime domains central to its national interests: the north seas (the Timor, Arafura and Coral Seas and the Torres Strait), the Western Pacific, the South China Sea, the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

Following the launch, a public Q&A session with the authors on topics covered in the book and on related contemporary Australian security issues will be moderated by Professor Jessica Gallagher, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement).

Event Details: GIRT BY SEA BOOK LAUNCH

Date: Tuesday 30th April 2024

Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm (Adelaide time) - Arrive 5:15pm - 5:30pm start

Location: The National Wine Centre - Gallery Room 

Books will be available for purchase and both authors will be available to sign and personalise your copy.

Professor Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security and Director of the Security in the Pacific Islands research program in the Stretton Institute at the University of Adelaide. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Joanne is the author or editor of ten books and leads the Regional Perspectives Research Project in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Group and partners in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, a Defence Strategic Policy Grant project on Statecraftiness in the Pacific Islands, and an ARC Discovery Project analysing the Australia-New Zealand alliance. Joanne is the editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, on the Advisory Group of AP4D, a member of the Advisory Board of Women in International Security-Australia, and an Expert Associate of the National Security College at the Australian National University. Joanne completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and Masters and Honours degrees in Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Rebecca (Bec) Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her research focuses on maritime disputes in Asia and Australian foreign and defence policy, and she has produced four books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and accolades, most recently the 2024 Bernard Brodie Prize for best article in the journal Contemporary Security Policy in 2023. Bec is the program lead for the DFAT-funded “Blue Security” network focused on maritime security issues in the Indo-Pacific. She is also currently a non-visiting fellow at the Royal Australian Navy’s Seapower Centre, a member of the East West Centre Council on Indo-Pacific Relations, and incoming chair of the Women in International Security Australia’s steering committee.