Dr Euan Graham

Nonresident Fellow
Dr Euan Graham
Biography
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Euan Graham is a former Nonresident Fellow of the Lowy Institute.

Euan is the Executive Director of La Trobe Asia. He has been a close observer of Southeast and Northeast Asian security affairs for more than twenty years, in academia, the private sector, and for the British Government. He joined the Lowy Institute in 2015, from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore where he specialised in maritime security. Prior to this he was a research analyst in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and served at the British Embassy in Pyongyang. His most recent Analysis for the Lowy Institute is: “Trump, Kim and the North Korean Nuclear Missile Melodrama”.

Dr Graham’s research interests include Australian defence policy, maritime security and strategy, the Korean Peninsula, and the US strategic role in the Indo-Pacific. He is a regular commentator for the international and Australian media. His book Japan’s Sea Lane Security 1940–2004: A Matter of Life and Death? was the first comprehensive English-language analysis on this subject. He received his PhD from the Australian National University in 2003. Dr Graham is an Associate Fellow at the UK Royal United Services Institute and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Responding to China’s not-so-secret influence campaign
Responding to China’s not-so-secret influence campaign
There are downsides to China’s economic value proposition and politicians could do more to prep the public.
Cracks in walls and Trump’s border with Mexico
Cracks in walls and Trump’s border with Mexico
How does Donald Trump’s fixation with border fortifications sit in the context of historic and contemporary examples?
Mind the gap: views of security in the Pacific
Mind the gap: views of security in the Pacific
An emphasis on “non-traditional” issues in the islands should not discount Canberra’s legitimate geostrategic concerns.
Belt and Road: more than just a brand
Belt and Road: more than just a brand
Ambiguity is deliberate to the way BRI has been rolled out, but it has all signs of a gargantuan-scaled grand strategy.
How Taiwan deters China – and can do better yet
How Taiwan deters China – and can do better yet
Far from a “lost cause”, the Asia Power Index demonstrates the chance Taiwan has to strengthen its defence networks.
Conserving the single maritime operating environment
Speeches
Conserving the single maritime operating environment
Delivered at the Exercise Kakadu Fleet Commanders Conference, organised by RAN’s Sea Power Centre, on 1 September 2018 in Darwin, Australia. Euan Graham
What price abroad for Australia's latest leadership upheaval?
Commentary
What price abroad for Australia's latest leadership upheaval?
Originally published in Straits Times. Euan Graham
Australia seeks Plan B as trust in US falters
Commentary
Australia seeks Plan B as trust in US falters
Originally published in Straits Times.Euan Graham
Beijing’s maritime gifts
Beijing’s maritime gifts
China appears to be stepping up its maritime capacity-building efforts.
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