Dean, P.J. The Australian Army and archipelagic warfare:  Fighting the future war in the Indo-Pacific (Australian Army Research Centre)

Dean, P.J. & Moss, T., Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The nexus of strategy and operations in a multipolar Asia, 1945 – 1965 (forthcoming ANU Press, 2021)

Dear P.J. & James, K., Australia in the Second World War  (forthcoming University Press of Kentucky, 2022)

Dean, P.J., The Australian Way of War: Strategic culture, alliances and the use of force in the antipodes. 

Dean, P.J. Assaulting the Jungle Shore: Amphibious Warfare and the Transformation of the Australian Army and 1942-1945 (under contract with the Australian Army History Unit)

Peter's major research and teaching interests are in defence studies, Australian strategic policy, the ANZUS Alliance, military operations, and US strategy in the Indo-Pacific. Peter has been an Endeavour Research Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow in Australia-United States Alliance Studies. In 2011 he was a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre Sydney University and has been a Senior Fellow the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC and an Adjunct Fellow in the Pacific Partners Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.

Along with Brendan Taylor Peter was the creator and series editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series. He has served as a managing editor of the journal Security Challenges and sits on the editorial board of Global War Studies and the Australian Army Journal. He has published his work in areas such as: Security Challenges, US Naval War College Review, War & Society, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Australian Policy and History and Global War Studies, the East Asia Forum, The Strategist, The Diplomat and The Interpreter. He is also a regular media commentator on Australian and regional defence issues.