Alexey Muraviev

Alexey D Muraviev is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is the founder and director of the Strategic Flashlight forum on national security and strategy at Curtin. Alexey has published widely in the field of national security, strategic and defence studies. He is Australia’s leading authority on Russian military power. His broader research interests include problems of modern maritime power; contemporary defence and strategic policy; Russia as a Pacific power; Russia’s strategic engagement in the Indo-Pacific; and Australian national security and defence. Among his latest publications are Alexey D Muraviev, Battle Reading the Russian Pacific Fleet 2023–2030, Sea Power Paper (Canberra: Sea Power Centre Australia, 2023); and Alexey D Muraviev, ‘Russia and the South China Sea’, in Howard M Hensel (ed.), Security Dynamics in the South China Sea (London and New York: Routledge, 2024). He was one of the key contributors to The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies (London and New York: Routledge, 2025).