Samuel Bashfield | Research Fellow
La Trobe University, Australia

Dr Samuel Bashfield is Research Fellow at the La Trobe Centre for Global Security, La Trobe University, Australia. His research examines how Australia and its partners respond to global geopolitical developments, new technologies and changing power distributions, with particular focus on maritime security, digital flows, and Indo-Pacific strategic dynamics. His books, The British Indian Ocean Territory: A Secret and Strategic Cold War History (Hurst & Oxford University Press, 2026) and Submarine Cables (Cambridge Elements in Indo-Pacific Security, 2026) are now available for order.