• Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
Academic Background
• Ph.D , University of New South Wales, Australia
• Grad Dip Ed, University of Newcastle, Australia
• Bachelor of Arts (hons), University of Newcastle, Australia
Past Experiences
• Most recently Professor Dean was Co-Lead of the 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR) Secretariat where he served as senior advisor and principal author for the Independent Leads, His Excellency Professor the Hon. Stephen Smith and Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK AC AFC (Retd).
• Professor Dean is the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series, a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Army Journal, Global War Studies and the Military Studies Journal and a former managing editor of the journal Security Challenges.
• His books include Australia’s American Alliance (Melbourne University Press 2016), MacArthur’s Coalition (University Press of Kansas, 2018), After American Primacy: Imagining the Future of Australia’s Defence (Melbourne University Press, 2019) and Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945–1965 (The Australian National University Press, 2021).