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Where Academia and Statecraft Intersect

WHO IS SECURITY & DEFENCE PLUS?

The PLuS Alliance is a longstanding partnership between three universities – in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia – providing support and innovation to help solve global challenges. The Security & Defence PLuS initiative of the PLuS Alliance expands upon this partnership, allowing the Alliance to help advance and support statecraft, research, and policy in the spirit of the AUKUS partnership.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Recognized as the most innovative school in the U.S. for seven consecutive years, ASU is pioneering a new model of National Service University, accelerating positive social outcomes through the seamless integration of cutting-edge technological innovation and scalability with an institutional culture dedicated to the advancement of academic enterprise and public value.
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King’s College London

With a longstanding history in military initiatives King’s College is the preeminent institution for Security and War Studies research and academic advancement.
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AUSTRALIA

UNSW Sydney

A long-term partner of the Australian Defence Force, the University of New South Wales is at the very forefront of military and security-related education and research in Australia.
Leveraging Scholarship to Enhance Policy

AUKUS PARTNERSHIP

Negotiated between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the AUKUS partnership strengthens the ability of each country to support mutual security and defense interests by promoting deeper information and technology sharing in nuclear-powered submarines and other advanced capabilities. Security and Defence PLuS aims to enhance the statecraft of the countries within the AUKUS Partnership by utilizing each university’s unique approach to academic scholarship and research.

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This is about investing in our greatest source of strength – our alliances. The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners who are even closer today.
Joe Biden (2021)US President,
To meet these challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level — a partnership that seeks to engage, not to exclude; to contribute, not take; and to enable and empower, not to control or coerce. And so, friends, AUKUS is born…
Scott Morrison (2021)Former Australian Prime Minister,
The United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States are creating a new trilateral defense partnership, known as AUKUS, with the aim of working hand in glove to preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
Boris Johnson (2021)Former UK Prime Minister,
The AUKUS partnership has seventeen trilateral working groups (nine relating to conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarines, and eight relating to other advanced military capabilities).
Australia will become the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after the US, UK, France, China, India, and Russia.
Bringing together the military industrial complex of these three allies together is a step change in the relationship. We’ve always been interoperable, but this aims at much more. From artificial intelligence to advanced technology the US, UK and Australia will now be able to cost save by increasing platform sharing and innovation costs. Particularly for the smaller two, that’s game changing.
Tom Tugendhat (2021)chair of the British Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee,
Nuclear-powered submarines have superior characteristics of stealth, speed, maneuverability, survivability, and almost limitless endurance, when compared to conventional submarines. They can operate in contested areas with a lower risk of detection and deter actions against Australia’s interests.
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SECURITY & DEFENCE RESEArCH and ARTICLES

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AUKUS Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition, Integrated Deterrence, and Campaigning: Resistance to Malign Activities

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On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed AUKUS, which is described as a trilateral...

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AUKUS Is Not the New Asian NATO, nor Even a Start at One

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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) Meet the Press conducted a war...

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THE STRATEGIC INTERPLAY BETWEEN AUKUS, THE NPT, AND THE RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER

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This commentary focuses on the first dimension of AUKUS: the plan for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines in cooperation with...

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AUKUS and Cyber Capabilities: Alignment of Concepts, Definitions, Capabilities, Norms and Doctrine

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As strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific intensifies, it challenges previously held assumptions about how to establish and maintain security in...

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AUKUS and Military Education Innovation

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Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States recently entered into a defense partnership that could effectively challenge China’s efforts...

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AUKUS and the Rules Based International Order

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On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced a wide-ranging technology-sharing partnership agreement known as...

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