What Indonesia’s Submarine Purchase Tells Us About Its Strategic Priorities By Shang-su Wu 03 June 2019 Jakarta’s choice to upgrade its defence capabilities with a billion-dollar submarine project reveals how they view their greatest naval strategic challenges. Read More
No Far-right Electoral “Earthquake” to Shake the European Union By Colin Chapman FAIIA 30 May 2019 While some nationalist forces, including Nigel Farage's brand-new Brexit Party, scored wins at a national level, overall there was little support for anti-EU parties in the recent European Parliament elections. Meanwhile, the future of Brexit remains as uncertain as ever. Read More
US-Australia-Indonesia Trilateral Security? Conditions for Cooperation By Dr Maryanne Kelton and David Willis 30 May 2019 While US endeavours to maintain its regional primacy and its military continues to shore up security relationships with allies and partners, Australia may now be the preferred initiator of any moves toward low-level trilateral discussions that include Indonesia. Read More
Interns Presentations 29 May 2019 On Tuesday 21st May the current interns addressed the Institute on topics of their choice. Introductions to their presentations can be found here: […] Read More
Intern Presentations 29 May 2019 On Tuesday 21st May the current interns addressed the Institute on topics of their choice. Introductions to their presentations can be found here: […] Read More
Where Is International Leadership When We Need It? By Professor Mark Beeson 29 May 2019 Without better global leadership on climate change our best days are behind us, yet many are turning to a Swedish schoolgirl for leadership rather than the ruling global elite. Read More
Reflecting on 20 years of Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Progress, Problems and Prospects By Dr Charles Hunt 29 May 2019 Today marks 20 years since the first time UN peacekeepers were directed to protect civilians from physical violence in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, the Protection of Civilians (PoC) mandate has become a centre of gravity for peacekeeping operations but also for the UN system as a whole. Read More
India's 2019 Elections By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 24 May 2019 In the most polarising and toxic elections in India’s history, the voter turnout of 67.1 percent — 604 million — was the highest ever. Fierce social media wars contributed to the nastiness. It is hard to say whether political discourse was coarsened more by PM Narendra Modi or his opponents. Read More
Iran: Nuclear Deal under Maximum Pressure By John Tilemann 23 May 2019 The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the deal curtailing Iran’s nuclear activities — has been under strain since the US unilaterally decided to withdraw in May last year. Read More
Does the US-China Trade Dispute Undermine Open Trade? By Alan Oxley 22 May 2019 US-China trade relations have stalled over the last four months, which the Australian Political Military community understand as marking the end of open trade globally. They could do better. Read More
Nativism and the US Census Citizenship Question Dr Andrew Gawthorpe 22 May 2019 The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the United States census will have major implications for the distribution of political power in 2020s America. Read More