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Andrew Carr

Andrew Carr is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

He is an award-winning teacher and scholar of strategy and Australian defence policy. A/Prof Carr has published in outlets such as Survival, Parameters, Journal of Strategic Studies, Australian Foreign Affairs, International Theory, The Washington Quarterly, and Comparative Strategy. He is currently part of the ANU-Department of Defence project writing a history of Australia’s Defence White Papers from 1976-2020. His next book Defending Terra Australis: Paradoxes of Strategy and Geography will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Articles by Andrew Carr (12)

Andrew Carr 26 Jun 2025

Beyond White Papers: How Australia should rethink strategic planning

Busy ministers don’t need more framework documents; they need a playbook for winning the competitions that matter.
Andrew Carr 5 Jun 2024

Free DFAT from “national interests” so that it can solve problems

Discussion of foreign policy always begins by identifying interests, but that’s less helpful than you might think
Andrew Carr 24 Aug 2017

Should war require parliamentary approval?

So long as bipartisanship on foreign and defence policy overrules argument and debate, any effort to give parliament a say on war will be pointless.
Andrew Carr 8 Jun 2017

The liberal order is not America’s to break

By overstating the importance of American involvement in the past, we over-emphasise the risks of American absence tomorrow.
Andrew Carr 7 Feb 2017

Time to harness the motivating force of fear

As the clouds loom and the storm brews, we still have time to think afresh.
Andrew Carr 20 Jun 2016

The end of the sound of silence on defence and security issues?
Andrew Carr 31 Mar 2016

Was Abbott right on national security?
Andrew Carr 29 Apr 2015

How Australia can campaign to end the death penalty
Andrew Carr 5 Mar 2015

Engagement is over