Bec Strating

Director, La Trobe Asia @latrobeasia / Professor of International Relations @latrobe

[Dr Huong LE THU @le2huong]

How ironic... Communist #Vietnam appears a defender of Rules Based Order. The #US - the leader of the free world - dismisses the RBO as utopian fantasy. The reversal has happened.
#SLD26

[Hunter Marston @hmarston4]

The @LowyInstitute will host 3 outstanding speakers in Sydney on 11 June to discuss traditional & non-traditional security threats in Asia & gaps in regional response mechanisms ft. @becstrating @DonMcLainGill95 & Murni Abdul Hamid. RSVP at the link below: https://t.co/er3m7Jxib7

[Peter Grace @PeterCGrace]

Maritime security: @becstrating says maritime order is a subset of the international order, observing changes here help us think of the order writ large. @asianewzealand Asia Symposium.

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Both countries claim overlapping parts of the Gulf of Thailand with potentially lucrative oil and gas reserves. There is a peaceful path to resolve the dispute. @becstrating @madeandi @latrobe @UOW https://t.co/5VBUdW80vm

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@sbmitche @latrobe Thanks Sara!

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

Very happy to be leading the new La Trobe Centre for Global Security, building on fantastic interdisciplinary expertise in Humanities and Social Sciences and across @latrobe to address multidimensional challenges

[La Trobe University @latrobe]

Threats to global security are overlapping like never before. Climate change, health, food security, cybersecurity, economics—they're all interconnected, and cannot be meaningfully understood in isolation.

Enter the La Trobe Centre for Global Security. https://t.co/NDzVRopK2b

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@manjeetsp @latrobe Thank you Manjeet!

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@davidcapie @latrobe Thank you @davidcapie!

[Michelle Chan @AusASEANEAS]

Productive discussions on conflict prevention at the 18th ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Meeting, co-chaired with Malaysia. The ARF is critical to strengthening dialogue in support of regional peace, stability and upholding international law. #ARF #ASEAN

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

We're delighted to announce that @becstrating, Director of @latrobeasia & Professor of International Relations at @latrobe, will join the speaker lineup for the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference.

🎟️ Early bird tickets are now on sale: https://t.co/1vCyK9PEjo

[Danielle Heinecke @AusHCMalaysia]

🇦🇺 and 🇲🇾 are co-Chairs for the #ARF Experts & Eminent Persons meeting for 2026. Welcome to @Rory_Medcalf, @le2huong and @becstrating who joined @ISIS_MY’s @Professor_Faiz to facilitate a conversation about conflict prevention in the Indo-Pacific and around the world.

#ASEAN

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

This isn't even the half of it. Now do the hard policy tradeoffs and fiscal constraints that will ensue, especially for Asian economies.

Just take Indonesia, where Prabowo has had a lot riding on the fuel subsidy, a free nutritious meals program, and so on. And let's imagine a world of budget constraints where leaders like him may have to start curtailing signature programs that, in turn, undermine welfare gains, or else blow through fiscal constraints and run fresh budget deficits. In Indonesia's case, for example, that isn't even permitted since there is statutory requirement to hold the deficit to 3% of GDP.

We've got reports this morning of three Korean airlines in emergency management. And so much more around the region ...

Meanwhile, there seems to be a parallel debate in Washington, where there is so much self-satisfied talk in Washington about "back footing China" by "picking of its allies like Iran." But isn't it fantastical to think that a double whammy of a year of (1) American trade policy and tariffs that have undermined many of the prevailing developmental assumptions in Asia and (2) American Middle East policy that both wrecks Asian energy security and forces these kinds of fiscal and programmatic choices will have zero effect on U.S. posture in the region?

Whose debate are we having here in DC?

I used to write a column for India's financial newspaper @bsindia called "DC Diary." Am thinking of starting a new column called "DC Delusions," in which other people's realities are extrapolated away while Washington projects its strategic debating about "competing with China" onto everyone and everything.

Bottom line: think there are some tough choices ahead for Asian governments.

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

Call for papers!

@DrSarahLothian @FathomsOne and I have launched a new Research Topic with Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability:

'Exploring the Relationship between the Ocean Economy, Innovation, and Security'

Pls find info here:
https://t.co/WkRwjpHm27

[European Journal of International Security @EJIntSec]

🌊 NEW: "‘Friendshoring’ the seabed: Securing submarine cables through network centrality" from @SamuelBashfield & @becstrating.

📚👉 Read here: https://t.co/oxUPIIbyMX

[South China Sea Connect @Scs_Connect]

[#SCSC17 #UiU] SESSION 1: “A Reality of (Un)Stable Sea”, moderated by H.E. Amb. Dang Dinh Quy, Former Vietnamese Foreign Deputy Minister, starts NOW. Our speakers: Dr. @becstrating @latrobeasia, Dr. Yinan Bao, Commodore @jaytaryela, Mr. @GordianKnotRay & Dr. @HaiDo80 (#DAV)

[La Trobe Asia @latrobeasia]

Come to the Melbourne launch of "Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia" by @IanJStorey in conversation with @becstrating. NOV 25, 5:30PM (@latrobe City Campus) REGISTER: https://t.co/QJIzLX2HQr

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

A worthy finalist for sure - good luck Jen!

[Jennifer Parker @JAParker29]

Honoured to be selected as a finalist in the ADM Women in Defence Awards, alongside an incredible group of women from @DefenceAust, industry, & academia.

Most women and men I know in Defence are driven by a sense of purpose, of one to contribute to something greater than yourself. Leaving Defence can make it hard to find that same meaning elsewhere, but I’ve been fortunate to continue advocating for how Australia thinks about its national interests and evolving threats.

It’s a privilege to contribute through media and academia to help inform public debate on the challenges we face in what may well be historic times.

@NSC_ANU @UNSWCanberra

[Jennifer Parker @JAParker29]

Honoured to be selected as a finalist in the ADM Women in Defence Awards, alongside an incredible group of women from @DefenceAust, industry, & academia.

Most women and men I know in Defence are driven by a sense of purpose, of one to contribute to something greater than yourself. Leaving Defence can make it hard to find that same meaning elsewhere, but I’ve been fortunate to continue advocating for how Australia thinks about its national interests and evolving threats.

It’s a privilege to contribute through media and academia to help inform public debate on the challenges we face in what may well be historic times.

@NSC_ANU @UNSWCanberra

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@MikeBosack Hope you enjoy our great city Mike!

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

📣 JOB alert 📣 The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at @latrobe is hiring for a fixed-term, full-time 3 year Research Fellow in Global Security position, focused on maritime security. Please email [email protected] with any inquiries

https://t.co/ZRqdgoRmc6