Professor Alan Dupont
Professor Alan Dupont is the foundation Michael Hintze Chair of International Security, the Director of the Centre for International Security Studies and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University and is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and the US Foreign Service Institute.
Professor Dupont has worked on Australian defence and Asian security issues for more than thirty years as a strategist, diplomat, policy analyst and scholar. He was previously a Senior Fellow for International Security at the Lowy Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. During his time in government he served in the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade which included postings with the Australian embassies in Seoul and Jakarta, the latter as Counsellor.
Professor Dupont has served as a Ministerial advisor to the Australian government and is a member of the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He is one of five Australian representatives to the ASEAN Regional Forum's Register of Experts and Eminent Persons and is a special advisor on foreign policy to East Timor's President, Jose Ramos Horta. Professor Dupont also serves on the Board of Management of the Land Warfare Studies Centre, the Australian Army’s think tank, and a is a member of the International Advisory Board of CQS, a leading European hedge fund.
Recent Publications
Dupont A 2009 ‘Consensus lies far from Copenhagen’, The Australian, 11 November. Correction: The IPCC report was in 2007 not 2006, as stated.
Dupont A 2009 'Our forces must first be functional', The Australian, 14 April. 
Dupont A 2009 'The Strategic Implications of Climate Change' in Towards Closer Engagement in a New Asia, ed. William T. Tow and Chin Kin Wah, ISEAS Publishing , Singapore, Singapore, pp. 129-50.
Dupont A and Piggott L 2009 'Managing the Terrorist Threat from Southeast Asia: A Strategic Response', Australian Federal Police.
Dupont A and Thirlwell M 2009 'Are We Entering a New Era of Food Insecurity?', Survival vol. 51:3, pp. 71-98.
Dupont A 2008 'Defence has battle at home', The Australian, 20 November.
Dupont A 2008 'Can Barack Obama reposition Pax Americana?', Opinion Asia, 10 November.
Dupont A 2008 'Don’t neglect uneasy Japan', The Australian, 9 June.
Dupont A 2008 'The strategic implications of climate change', Survival, vol. 50:3, pp. 29-54.
Dupont A 2007 'Security fears if trust in the US keeps eroding', The Australian, 10 December.
Dupont A 2007 'Labor careless with their trump card', The Australian, 31 October.
Dupont A 2007 'Benefits offset costs of US alliance’, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 October.
Dupont A 2007 'Not the time to deal out Beijing: Any new regional pact must include China', The Australian, 26 March.
Dupont A 2007 'Scorched Earth insecure place', The Australian, 5 February.
Dupont A and Pearman G 2006 Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security Lowy Institute Paper 12, June 2006, Longueville Media, pp. 1-143. (Refereed monograph).
Dupont A 2006 'Transnational Security' in Strategy and Security in the Asia Pacific, ed. R. Ayson and D. Ball, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW pp. 103-20.
Dupont A 2006 'Heat building as governments ignore danger', The Australian, 13 June.
Dupont A 2006 'We need to tell Condi some blunt truths', The Australian, 15 March.
Dupont A 2005 'Grand Strategy, National Security and the Australian Defence Force', Lowy Institute Perspectives, vol.May.
Dupont A 2005 'Japan: The Schizophrenic Superpower', The National Interest (US Policy Journal), vol.79.
Dupont A 2005 'Regional tensions awaken', The Australian Financial Review, 3 March
Dupont A 2005 'We have to bring out the big guns', The Australian, 29 November.
Dupont A 2004 'Transnational Violence in the Asia Pacific: An Overview of Current Trends' in Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability , ed. P.J. Smith, ME Sharpe, Armonk, New York, pp. 3-18.
Dupont A 2004 'Unsheathing the Samurai Sword: Japan´s Changing Security Policy' in (Refereed monograph) Lowy Institute Paper 003, pp. 1-85.
Dupont A 2003 'Engaging Kopassus: Supping with the Devil?' The Diplomat, vol.June-July.
Dupont A 2003 'Intelligence for the Twenty First Century', lead article in special edition of Intelligence and National Security, vol.18:4.
Dupont A 2003 'The Kopassus Dilemma: Should Australia Re-engage?' Agenda, vol.10:1.
Dupont A 2003 'Transformation or Stagnation: Rethinking Australian Defence', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.57:1.
Dupont A 2003 'ADF needs more combat power', The Australian Financial Review, 9 July