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China Can Hurt Australia for Malabar Exercise But QUAD is Bracing
Earlier this week, India formally invited Australia to join the large-scale naval exercises to be conducted in the Bay of Bengal (3-6 November) and the Arabian Sea (17-20 November), involving in...
Women in Asia-Pacific Security Research Seminar Series 2020-21
Exceptional research from women academics working in international security will be highlighted in a new seminar series. Professor Evelyn Goh has been awarded an ANU Gender Institute Grant 2020-21...
Back to the drawing board on our survival strategy
Scott Morrison was not exaggerating back in July when he compared Australia’s strategic circumstances today with the late 1930s and the lead-up to World War II. Back then a rising regional power...
‘The Makings of a Success’: The Global Compact on Refugees and the Inaugural Global Refugee Forum
“The understanding of international dynamics, global governance mechanisms and diplomatic practice developed through my studies in Diplomacy have been invaluable in my current role working on...
Book Review: The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood
US-Pakistan relations have always been difficult and became particularly prickly at the height of the war in neighbouring Afghanistan. Washington needs to rebuild the trust if it doesn’t want to see...
Dr Judy Putt discusses low conviction rates in PNG despite high domestic violence rates
The 2018 Crime and Safety Perceptions Survey in PNG indicated that domestic violence was the third most common crime (in PNG) experienced in the previous 12 months by individuals or someone in their...
Gender and Global Threats
2020 has not been a good year for the Asia Pacific region. Achievements in the United Nation’s global Sustainable Development Goals has been poor and COVID-19 has had enormous economic impacts in an...
Is Australia ready for regional conflict?
It has become fashionable to speculate about the risk of a coming war between China and America. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, in a recent article in Foreign Policy titled Beware the Guns of...
PNG researchers share their experiences in film
In a short film commissioned by the Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) and released here today, five PNG researchers share their experiences of doing research as part of a DPA-led research...
Our experts awarded grant for podcast series
COVID-19 represents a massive global health, economic and political challenge. It is undoubtedly a gendered challenge too: women are the majority of healthcare workers internationally, take on more...
