Areas of expertise

• Defence Studies 160604
• International Relations 160607

Research interests

Biography

Publications

• Taylor, B 2016, 'A pragmatic partner: Australia and the ADMM-plus', Asia Policy, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 83-88.
• Peter J. Dean, Stephan Fruehling and Brendan Taylor (ed.), 2016 Australia's American Alliance, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia.
• Taylor, B 2016, 'Sino-US Competition and Nuclear Non-Proliferation on the Korean Peninsula', Global Asia: a journal of the East Asia Foundation, vol.11, no.4, pp.28-33.
• Taylor, B 2016, 'Australia and Asia's Maritime Disputes: Continuity amidst Chaos', The Asan Forum, vol. 4, no. 1.
• Taylor, B 2016, 'Unbreakable Alliance? ANZUS in the Asian Century', Asian Politics and Policy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 75-85.
• Huxley, T & Taylor, B 2016, 'Military Modernization and Arms-Racing in the Asia-Pacific', in Joanne Wallis and Andrew Carr (ed.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 123-145.
• Taylor, B & King, A 2016, 'Northeast Asia's New 'History Spiral'', Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 108-116.
• Taylor, B 2016, 'Paul Dibb and the Asian Balance of Power', in Desmond Ball and Sheryn Lee (ed.), Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy: Essays in Honour of Paul Dibb, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 171-182.
• Taylor, B & Tow, W 2016, 'Conclusion: What Is the Asia-Pacific's Likely Security Future?', in Joanne Wallis and Andrew Carr (ed.), Asia-Pacific Security: an introduction, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 259-270.
• Taylor, B 2015, 'The South China Sea as a 'crisis'', in Leszek Buszynski, Christopher B. Roberts (ed.), The South China Sea Maritime Dispute: Political, legal and regional perspectives, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 173-186.
• Taylor, B 2015, 'Australia responds to America's rebalance', in William T. Tow and Douglas Stuart (ed.), The New US Strategy towards Asia: Adapting to the American Pivot, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 157-167.
• Bisley, N & Taylor, B 2015, 'China's engagement with regional security multilateralism: the case of the Shangri-La dialogue', Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 29-48.
• Green, M, Dean, P, Taylor, B et al 2015, 'The Centre of Gravity Series: The ANZUS Alliance in an Ascending Asia'.
• Taylor, B 2015, 'Australia's Crumbling China Consensus', Global Asia: a journal of the East Asia Foundation, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 39-41.
• Rigby, R & Taylor, B 2015, 'Whose Shared Destiny?', in G R Barmé, L Jaivin, J Goldkorn (ed.), Shared Destiny, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 60-73.
• Taylor, B 2014, 'Realist Optimist: Coral Bell's Contribution to Australian Foreign and Defence Policy', in Desmond Ball and Sheryn Lee (ed.), Power and International Relations: Essays in Honour of Coral Bell, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 67-78.
• Taylor, B 2014, 'The South China Sea is Not a Flashpoint', The Washington Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 99-111.
• Dean, P, Fruehling, S & Taylor, B, eds, 2014, Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era?, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
• Taylor, B & Bisley, N 2014, Conflict in the East China Sea: Would ANZUS Apply?.
• Tow, W & Taylor, B, eds, 2013, Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security: Contending Cooperation, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York.
• Taylor, B 2013, 'Does China Still Back North Korea?', Survival, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 85-91.
• Taylor, B 2013, 'The Defence White Paper 2013 and Australia's Strategic Environment', Security Challenges, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 15-22.
• Taylor, B & Rigby, R 2013, 'Foreign Policy For A Global China', in Geremie R. Barme and Jeremy Goldkorn (ed.), China Story Yearbook 2013 Civilising China, Australian Centre on China in the World - Australian National University, Australian National University, p. 1.
• Kerr, P & Taylor, B 2013, 'Track-two Diplomacy in East Asia', in Pauline Kerr & Geoffrey Wiseman (ed.), Diplomacy in a Globalizing World. Theories and Practices, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 226-243.
• Taylor, B, Farrelly, N & Lee, S, eds, 2012, Insurgent Intellectual: Essays in honour of Professor Desmond Ball, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
• Taylor, B 2012, 'Japan and South Korea: The Limits of Alliance', Survival, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 93-100.
• Taylor, B 2012, 'China's Foreign Policy Aggressiveness', in Geremie Barme (ed.), Red Rising, Red Eclipse, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, p. 313.
• Taylor, B 2011, 'The Shangri-La Dialogue: Thriving, but Not Surviving?', in Bhubhindar Singh & See Seng Tan (ed.), From 'Boots' to 'Brogues': The Rise of Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, pp. 54-62.
• Schreer, B & Taylor, B 2011, 'The Korean Crises and Sino-American Rivalry', Survival, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 13-19.
• Taylor, B 2011, 'Asia's century and the problem of Japan's centrality', International Affairs, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 871-885.
• Taylor, B 2011, 'The Rise of Asian Defense Diplomacy', Contemporary International Relations, vol. 21, no. 3.
• Taylor, B & Capie, D 2010, 'The Shangri-La Dialogue and the institutionalization of defence diplomacy in Asia', Pacific Review, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 359-376.
• Taylor, B & Milner, A 2010, 'Track 2: Developments and Prospects', in Desmond Ball and Kwa Chong Guan (ed.), Assessing Track 2 Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, pp. 179-190.
• Tow, W & Taylor, B 2010, 'What is Asian security architecture?', Review of International Studies, vol. 36, pp. 95-116.
• Taylor, B 2010, American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London UK.
• Taylor, B 2010, Sanctions as Grand Strategy, Adelphi no.411, Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, United Kingdom.
• Tow, W & Taylor, B 2009, 'Emerging Regional Security Architecture: An Australian Perspective', in Tow, William T., Chin Kin Wah (ed.), ASEAN-India-Australia: towards Closer Engagement in a New Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 3-21.
• Ayson, R & Taylor, B 2009, 'Architectural alternatives or alternatives to architecture?', in Ron Huisken (ed.), Rising China: Power and Reassurance, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 185-199 - Chapter 13.
• Taylor, B & Tow, W 2009, 'Challenges to Building an Effective Asia-Pacific Security Architecture', in Michael J Green and Bates Gill (ed.), Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the search for community, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 329-349.
• White, H & Taylor, B 2009, 'A rising China and American perturbations', in William T Tow (ed.), Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 85-98.
• Taylor, B 2009, 'Developing East Asia's Security Architecture: An Australian perspective on ASEAN processes', in Ron Huisken (ed.), The Architecture of Security in the Asia-Pacific, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 11-19.
• Ayson, R & Taylor, B 2009, 'The Case for an Informal Approach: An Australian perspective', in See Seng Tan (ed.), Collaboration under Anarchy: Functional Regionalism and the Security of East Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, pp. 120-131.
• Ayson, R & Taylor, B 2008, 'Carrying China's Torch', Survival, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 5-10.
• Taylor, B 2008, 'The Bush administration and Asia Pacific multilateralism: unrequited love?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
• Taylor, B 2008, 'China rising: the view from 'down under'', Australia and Japan 1.5 Track Security Dialogue 2007, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, pp. 47-55.
• Taylor, B 2008, 'China's 'Unofficial' Diplomacy', in Pauline Kerr, Stuart Harris and Qin Yaqing (ed.), China's 'New' Diplomacy: Tactical or Fundamental Change?, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, New York, pp. 195-210.
• Taylor, B 2008, Australia's Turn with the Torch: An Illuminating Episode, Pacific Forum CSIS.
• Taylor, B 2007, 'Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific', in Ron Huisken and Meredith Thatcher (ed.), History as Policy: Framing the debate on the future of Australia's Defence Policy, ANU ePress, Canberra, ACT, pp. 117-128.
• Taylor, B 2007, 'Panel IV Chairman's Introduction', in Jeffrey D McCausland, Douglas T Stuart, William T Tow, Michael Wesley (ed.), The Other Special Relationship: The United States and Australia at the start of the 21st century, Strategic Studies Institute, USA, pp. 181-188.
• Taylor, B & Ball, D 2007, 'Australia-Japan', in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Australia as an Asia-Pacific regional power: Friendships in Flux?, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 50-59.
• Taylor, B 2007, 'Introduction [to Australia as an Asia-Pacific regional power: Friendships in Flux?]', in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Australia as an Asia-Pacific regional power: Friendships in Flux?, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 3-11.
• Taylor, B & Ball, D 2007, 'Historical Overview', in W Tow, M Thomson, Y Yamamoto and S Limaye (ed.), Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 11-22.
• Taylor, B 2007, 'Sanctioning North Korea - Promise and Pitfalls', International Symposium on North Korea and Peace and Stability in North-East Asia 2006, ed. Setsuo Takeda, Nihon University, Japan, pp. 55-63.
• Ball, D & Taylor, B 2006, 'Reflections on the Track Two process in the Asia-Pacific Region', in H Soesastro, C Joewono, C Hernandez (ed.), Twenty Two Years of ASEAN ISIS: Origin, Evolution and Challenges of Track Two Diplomacy, Jakarta and Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, pp. 105-116.
• Taylor, B, Milner, A & Ball, D 2006, Track 2 Diplomacy in Asia: Australian and New Zealand Engagement, Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
• Ball, D, Milner, A & Taylor, B 2006, 'Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions', Asian Security, vol. 2, no. 3, October 2006, pp. 174-188.
• Taylor, B & Luckham, B 2006, 'Economics and security', in Robert Ayson, Desmond Ball (ed.), Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 138-151.
• Ball, D & Taylor, B 2006, 'Regional security cooperation', in Robert Ayson, Desmond Ball (ed.), Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 270-283.
• Taylor, B 2006, Living with Giants, About the House.
• Ayson, R & Taylor, B 2005, 'A Bridge Too Far', The Diplomat, vol. 1, no. April/May issue, pp. 15-16.
• Taylor, B 2005, 'US-China relations after 11 September: a long engagement or marriage of convenience?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 179-199.
• Taylor, B 2005, 'Coral Bell's contribution to Australian foreign policy', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 257-260.
• Taylor, B 2005, 'The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. tba, pp. 110-112.
• Taylor, B 2005, 'Towards Hegemony? Assessing China's Asian Ambitions', Security Challenges, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21-25.
• Powles, A & Taylor, B 2005, 'Double Headed Dragon', The Diplomat, vol. June/July, pp. 32-33.
• Taylor, B 2005, 'Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. tba, pp. 553-555.
• Ball, D, Milner, A & Taylor, B 2005, Mapping Track II institutions in New Zealand, Australia and the Asian Region, Asia New Zealand Foundation.
• Ayson, R & Taylor, B 2004, 'Attacking North Korea: Why War Might be Preferred', Comparative Strategy, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 263-279.
• Taylor, B 2004, Instability in the US-ROK Alliance: Korean Drift or American Shift?, Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
• Taylor, B 2003, 'This is NOT a crisis', The Diplomat, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 16.
• Taylor, B 2003, 'Merciless retaliatory measures', The Diplomat, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 18-19.
• Ball, D & Taylor, B 2003, 'Introduction', in Clive Williams and Brendan Taylor (ed.), Countering Terror: New Directions Post '911', Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-7.