Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is a senior fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a polar geopolitics expert. She is a visiting fellow in US-Australia alliance studies at the Center for the National Interest in Washington DC. Most recently she was Head of Research for the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre (Department of Defence) and a First Sea Lord Five Eyes fellow with the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.
Dr Buchanan is co-director and co-founder of polar warfare studies at the Modern War Institute of the West Point Military Academy. Before joining Defence, Dr Buchanan was lecturer of strategic studies for the Defence and Strategic Studies course at the Australian War College. Elizabeth holds a PhD in Russian Arctic strategy and completed her post-doctoral studies as a maritime fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. She has published widely on geopolitics, most recently with Australian Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Australian, and The American Conservative.
Dr Buchanan has been a visiting scholar with the Brookings Institution and was an analyst with Royal Dutch Shell. Elizabeth has published two books: Russian Energy Strategy in Asia and Red Arctic: Russian Arctic Strategy under Putin. Her forthcoming books are So you want to own Greenland (Hurst UK) and Competitive Cooperation at the Ends of the Earth (Yale University Press).
