Skip To Main Content
Bec Strating on Muck Rack

Bec Strating

As seen in: The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, CNA (Channel NewsAsia), Australian Financial Review, The Diplomat Magazine, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), War on the Rocks, East Asia Forum, RealClear Defense, RealClear World and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Bec

Contact Bec, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Education is Australia’s strategic edge

|
By Tom Barber, Bec Strating, Greta Nabbs-Keller
| East Asia Forum Verified
Like other countries, Australia is being forced to consider how to navigate an increasingly contested, competitive and fragmented international environment. While it boasts the world’s 13th largest economy, 17th strongest military and 15th largest defence expenditure, it remains a middle power, unable to compete with great powers on military strength or economic might. But a clear comparative advantage that Australia can leverage is its education sector. And it can do so as a world leader.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The security gap Australia can’t afford to ignore

|
By Bec Strating
| The Lowy Institute
The ANU National Security College has released findings from a major national survey of more than 18,000 Australians on attitudes to national security. Among its most striking insights is a persistent and revealing gender gap – not only in how Australians understand security, but in who feels entitled to speak about it. Some of the findings align with familiar patterns.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Wrong Time for a Collective Defence Pact in Asia

|
By Bec Strating
| RealClear Defense
Trump’s unpredictability is already an obstacle. And diverse interests make bilateral flexibility better than rigid military blocs. In a newly published Foreign Affairs essay, former Biden administration assistant secretary of Defence Ely Ratner has proposed an Asian collective defence pact between the United States, Japan, Philippines, and Australia. This is an idea that has emerged at precisely the wrong moment. It rests on dubious assumptions about both American reliability and regional dynamics.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 60 licensed articles (66 Total)