Award-winning author and security expert, Elisabeth Braw, will be in conversation with Jennifer Parker on Elisabeth’s new book, The Undersea War: The International Battle for Supremacy at the Bottom of the World, a gripping, international investigation into an invisible conflict that could determine who controls the world's future.

Beneath the oceans, a war is quietly unfolding - a battle over the pipelines and digital cables that carry the oil, gas and data modern life depends on. These invisible networks, stretching across the globe, are vital, and increasingly under threat. We must pay attention, before it's too late.

In The Undersea War, Elisabeth Braw exposes the frontlines of this hidden conflict, recounting incidents with nail-biting suspense: mysterious damage to undersea cables, shadowy ships loitering near pipelines and the growing realization that these vital arteries may be deliberately targeted. From Arctic ice to tropical seas, ordinary people - from islanders cut off from the digital world to officials confronting suspicious foreign vessels - feel the consequences of a conflict most of the world does not even know exists.

Drawing on deep reporting and exclusive interviews with ship captains and crews, witnesses, policymakers and executives, Braw moves across continents and oceans - from the Arctic waters of Svalbard to the Baltic Sea, from the Matsu Islands off Taiwan to England, Denmark, Tanzania, Indonesia, and beyond - revealing a globe-spanning struggle for control beneath the waves.

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, a member of the National Preparedness Commission (UK) and a visiting senior fellow at the UK Resilience Academy. A columnist with Foreign Policy and a commentator for UK Sky News, Elisabeth also writes regularly for the Financial Times and The Times (London). Her publications include the award-winning Goodbye, Globalization and God’s Spies, about the Stasi’s church division.

Jennifer Parker, the Principal and Founder of Barrier Strategic Advisory, holds a number of university and think tank affiliations, including Adjunct Professor of Practice at the UWA Australia Defence and Security Institute, Non-Resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Expert Associate at the ANU National Security College. Jennifer has published extensively on Australian defence strategy, maritime security, naval capability and Indo-Pacific strategic affairs. She is regularly featured across Australian and international print, digital, radio and television media.

The vote of thanks will be given by Allan Behm, Senior Advisor, International & Security Affairs Program at the Australia Institute, Canberra

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