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Women scholars in Strategic Studies: A career reception for future leaders
“The problems of our age are so vast that we need unprecedented breadth and depth to our collective knowledge. We also need to be able to work with dualities, hybridity, and contingency in...
Reaching peace in Afghanistan and the Pakistan factor
By Honorary Associate Professor Claude Rakisits When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan returned home last week after his 3-day trip to Washington, he received a hero’s welcome. It was as if he...
Studying Southeast Asia's Security Choices
Created and led by Professor John Blaxland and Dr Greg Raymond of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), the New Colombo Plan (NCP) funded course was a “tour de force” of in-depth knowledge...
ANU graduates the first PNG police PhD
Recently promoted to Chief Superintendent by the Minister of Policy, Philip Mitna becomes the first Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) employee to hold a PhD when he graduates from The...
SDSC Graduate now writing on the world stage
Thomas Paterson will be receiving his Master of Strategic Studies (MSS) degree today, marking the celebration of two very busy and transformative years. Initially uninterested in tertiary education...
Farewell to Jeremy (and Bob the cranky dinosaur)
Imagine, if you will, a young American scholar straight from the deepest, darkest depths of winter in Minnesota. Associate Professor Jeremy Youde steps off the plane into 45 degrees, straight from a...
DPA partners with University of New Caledonia to co-convene PIPSA conference, ‘Democracy, Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Pacific Islands’
From 25 – 27 June 2019, the Australian National University Department of Pacific Affairs and the University of New Caledonia LARJE Centre co-convened the PIPSA (Pacific Islands Political Studies...
Understanding how the ‘Pacific’ fits into the ‘Indo-Pacific’
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) and National Security College (NSC) of the Australian National University (ANU) recently hosted officials, public...
Professor John Blaxland selected to write official ASD history
From ‘ASD is Making History’ available at: https://www.asd.gov.au/speeches/20190708-asd-is-making-history.htm One of Australia’s most experienced and respected military historians will tell the top...
A truly Indo-Pacific Endeavour
Described by Joint Task Force Commander, Air Commodore Richard Owen as “one of the most important annual activities of the Australian Defence Force”, Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE19) is part of...
