2019

Public Lecture | The Presidential and parliamentary elections in Indonesia: What do we need to know, and why do we need to know it?

Experts gathered to address the biggest election in the world. The world’s single largest election day took place this month, as Indonesians headed to the… Read More

New Japanese Air Force emerges

PETER LAYTON | The Japanese Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) lives in a tough neighbourhood. In the south, China is trying to gain control of… Read More

Non-technical measures can help reduce Australia’s vulnerability to foreign influence

PETER LAYTON | Most now agree that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, using social media manipulation to support its preferred candidate. In… Read More

Myanmar’s intelligence apparatus under Aung San Suu Kyi

ANDREW SELTH  | When Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) took office in 2016, a wave of euphoria swept… Read More

Do diseases know gender?

SARA E DAVIES  | Diseases don’t know borders. That maxim is often invoked to remind countries of their responsibility to deal with infectious disease… Read More

India should play the Tibet card with China

China’s decision to block Pakistani Masood Azhar’s designation as a terrorist at the UN yet again is likely to test the limits of the… Read More

Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election

IAN HALL | Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going… Read More

Regional wrap

The last fortnight witnessed a few key developments in the Indo-Pacific region. The most significant one for Australia, was the Morrison government’s announcement of… Read More

Ugly stability: Our nuclear future

Back in the late 1990s, Ashley Tellis characterised South Asia’s nuclear balance as ‘ugly stability’—a condition, he believed, that would probably… Read More

Domestic politics drive Malaysia’s abrupt global court U-turn

RENÉE JEFFERY | Well, that was short lived. With the rounds of applause that accompanied its historic decision to accede to the Rome Statute… Read More


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