From 11:00 am to 11:45 am HST, Dr. Bartley will present on his project Relationships in the grey zone: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the lure of the Quad. Dr Adam Bartley (AUS) is a 2022 Fulbright Scholar (Ausmin, DFAT) and Non-resident Vasey Fellow at Pacific Forum. He has a PhD in international relations from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he was a research specialist in U.S. foreign policy and regional Indo-Pacific security. He is the author of two manuscripts examining U.S. foreign policy and China entitled: Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963: Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth and US Foreign Policy and China: Security Challenges During the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations. Dr Bartley’s current research examines the intersection of geoeconomics and security in the Indo-Pacific amid the rise in gray-zone warfare. Adam lectures at RMIT university.