Dead Reckoning is Sarmila Bose’s attempt to find a middle, and more factual, ground at the intersection of conflicting accounts of the 1971 […]

During the past decade, the U.S. military has shifted its strategic thinking to refocus the ‘situational awareness from […]

How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to […]

On retirement in 1998, I was given almost unreserved access by Foreign Affairs and Trade to a rich archive of documents on Australian […]

Today, trade, educational and developmental aid and maritime security are driving forces in Australian-Indian bilateral relations. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has flagged […]

The notorious telegram of 1945 which peremptorily ordered young Australian diplomat Patrick Shaw to a third post in as many years, saying ‘wife […]

Feared, admired and often lampooned, Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was a powerful figure in Australian political and intellectual circles from the 1930s until his […]

As C. Raja Mohan observes in the preface to this book, India has had many ‘atomic avatars’: it […]

Books about international relations are written from a variety of levels and perspectives: while some are narrated from […]

South Asia is certainly in need of transformation. Riven by border disputes, home to two nuclear powers (with a third on its doorstep), […]