How should Australia re-calibrate its national security settings to deal with global disruption? In his new book ‘No Enemies, No Friends’, author Allan Behm argues the orthodoxy that increased defence spending will deliver increased national security confirms the status quo, but it does not help Australia to deal with shocks and surprises.

Join Allan Behm, author and International & Security Affairs director at the Australia Institute, in conversation with Melissa Conley-Tyler, Program Lead at the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue. Only on Australia Institute TV.

Allan Behm, author of No Enemies No Friends & International & Security Affairs director at the Australia Institute

Melissa Conley-Tyler, Program Lead at the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue