To strengthen dialogue and policy debate about growing requirements of deterrence within the US-Australia alliance, the United States Studies Centre (USSC) and Pacific Forum host a Track 1.5 US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue, bringing together over 30 US and Australian experts and officials from a wide range of government and research organisations. This Dialogue series focusses on exploring the next steps for the alliance’s deterrence agenda, including new and emerging avenues for integration, and exploring the obstacles and opportunities for improving the alliance’s collective capacity to deter coercive changes to the regional order. Participation in this Dialogue is by invite only and it is conducted under the Chatham House rule (i.e. non-attribution), though it also produces an outcomes report which is made available for public access.

The Pacific Forum is a ‘non-profit foreign policy research institute’ that seeks to ‘help stimulate cooperative policies in the Indo-Pacific region’ (https://pacforum.org/about-us) and has engaged the United States Studies Centre to co-convene the Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue in Australia. To strengthen dialogue and policy debate about growing requirements of deterrence within the US-Australia alliance, the United States Studies Centre (USSC) and Pacific Forum host a Track 1.5 US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue, bringing together over 30 US and Australian experts and officials from a wide range of government and research organisations. This Dialogue series focusses on exploring the next steps for the alliance’s deterrence agenda, including new and emerging avenues for integration, and exploring the obstacles and opportunities for improving the alliance’s collective capacity to deter coercive changes to the regional order. Participation in this Dialogue is by invite only and it is conducted under the Chatham House rule (i.e. non-attribution), though it also produces an outcomes report which is made available for public access.