Professor Rory Medcalf has been head of the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University since January 2015. He was previously founding director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute from 2007 to 2015. He has worked as a senior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments (now Office of National Intelligence), Canberra’s peak intelligence analysis agency, and as an Australian diplomat, with postings in India, Japan, and Papua New Guinea. Medcalf is the author of Contest for the Indo-Pacific (La Trobe University Press, 2020), released internationally as Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World’s Pivotal Region (Manchester University Press, 2020). What follows is a lightly edited interview.
Rory Medcalf.Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q: You argue that the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions are so interconnected that we should enlarge our “mental map” and start thinking of them as
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