Dr. Greg Brown

SENIOR FELLOW

DIRECTOR, REGIONAL COOPERATION AND COORDINATION

Dr. Greg Brown is a Senior Fellow and Director of Regional Cooperation and Coordination at ASPI USA. His prime areas of interest include Indo-Pacific geopolitics, regional perspectives of Australian and US foreign policy, and transnational and emerging security issues across the greater Pacific region.

Greg joined ASPI USA after nearly two decades of supporting research, analysis, and outreach programs for the US national security community, including developing research projects, conducting wargames and exercises, and running regional and functional boards of experts for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the Federal Foresight Community of Interest, and several divisions and mission centers for other national security community agencies.

As a subject matter expert in political demography, comparative foreign policy, and Indo-Pacific politics, Greg also has served as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies (CANZPS) in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University since 2005. He teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on strategic competition in the Pacific, migration and conflict, national identity formation and change, and comparative foreign policy. Greg also regularly serves as faculty advisor for undergraduate and Master’s capstone projects; moderates discussions for the annual Marino Family Workshop for incoming freshmen; and assists as a faculty reviewer for Truman, Marshall, and Rhodes Scholarship candidates.

Greg has served as a contracted instructor for the State Department/Foreign Service Institute’s course on Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, as a consultant for Freedom House, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Berlin/Vienna), the Centre for East European and International Studies (Berlin), and the UN Millennium Project's Global Challenges Program on Transnational Organized Crime; as a RICE Fellow at the East-West Center and a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne; and as an Australian National University Parliamentary Fellow in the Office of the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canberra. His work and insights in political demography, Indo-Pacific security affairs, and comparative foreign policy have been highlighted in outlets such as the Economist, the Australian, Radio Free Asia, Breaking Defense, Voice of America, Nikkei Asia, the South China Morning Post, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the New Zealand Herald, and have been published in outlets such as the Strategist, the National Interest, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Political Science, and the Australian journal of demography People and Place.

In years past, Greg held other teaching and research appointments at Southwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin where he was an Outstanding Graduate Instructor Finalist and received his Ph.D. in Government in 2004. His family ties stretch from Manila, Melbourne, and Tokyo to Portland, Palo Alto, and Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Cape Town, and Zurich. A proud product of the American West, he is the only member of his immediate family to avoid acquiring dual citizenship.

Publications & News

Elbridge Colby’s vision: blocking China

20 MARCH 2025

What Donald Trump Can Learn From Allies on Foreign Aid

11 FEBRUARY 2025

The future of US Indo-Pacific policy

07 FEBRUARY 2025

Southeast Asian Perceptions of the US & Australia Alliance

03 FEBRUARY 2025

Foursight: A Task Force On China’s Strategic Futures Joint Report

18 NOVEMBER 2024

Island nations frown upon Trump's "Dig!" message - where does the battle for hegemony lead?

14 NOVEMBER 2024

America under Donald Trump: views from ASPI analysts

07 NOVEMBER 2024

Six months on, key measures languish in Pacific Islands pact with US

12 SEPTEMBER 2024

The US presidential debate: ASPI responds

11 SEPTEMBER 2024

A roadmap for liberal democratic revitalisation

14 AUGUST 2024

What would a Harris presidency mean for US foreign policy and Australia? 

06 AUGUST 2024

China Lurks as Congress Stalls on COFA Funding Approval

03 MAY 2024

Solomon Islands elections watched closely for international impact

25 APRIL 2024

Japan studies Israel's air defense success with eye on Indo-Pacific

19 APRIL 2024

China Influence at Issue in Solomon Islands Election

22 FEBRUARY 2024

Tapping the private sector to unlock AUKUS

05 FEBRUARY 2024

America needs to out-innovate TikTok

07 SEPTEMBER 2023

Look beyond the Washington beltway for why AUKUS matters

23 MARCH 2023

AUKUS is underway, but key challenges remain

16 MARCH 2023

'With a little help from my friends'

29 NOVEMBER 2022

How the US midterm elections could impact Indo-Pacific policy

14 NOVEMBER 2022

The 2022 US midterm elections and what they might mean for Australia

05 NOVEMBER 2022

How will the midterms affect US foreign policy and Australia’s strategic interests?

04 NOVEMBER 2022

Despite progress, major challenges lie ahead for AUKUS

23 SEPTEMBER 2022