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Bell School signs MoU with Cambridge University AI centre
A new MOU has been signed between the ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI). The MOU is designed to...
Change in an era of great power rivalry
“What we have since 2016 is something that none of us alive now have experienced before…a world in which there are three credible, major military powers with global reach.” These words are those of...
Claiming ‘Victory’
Dr Meighen McCrae will use her skills as a historian to examine differing notions of victory throughout the First World War to challenge the legacies they have in our modern world. “If you want to...
No small undertaking - Encyclopedia of Diplomacy
Dr Pauline Kerr, Emeritus Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD), hopes to influence holistic understandings of diplomacy with the release of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of...
Writing Reaction into Theory
Dr Joseph MacKay was in New York on the night Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. As surprised as anyone, he remembers walking around town for a couple of days afterwards feeling...
Convening Sacred Stories
The ANU Religion Conference convenes every two years, bringing together people of different faiths and academic disciplines united around a central theme with a mind to the divine. This April that...
Breaking the Silence on Secrecy
Secrecy is an essential component of diplomacy. “As long as states continue to speak the language of interests for their people, of sovereignty, secrecy will remain an essential complement of their...
Feeding Crisis Diplomacy
In a crisis, diplomacy has typically been concerned with how to make or avoid war. But crises are diverse. Humanitarian crises like the flow of refugees from Syria’s civil war, or economic ones like...
2017- A Year in Review: Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
The achievements of the Bell School colleagues, many of which are captured in this year in review, were considerable. During 2017 alone, we collectively published 83 journal articles, 48 book...
Introducing Executive Education short courses in Diplomacy
Starting in April 2018, ANU now offers a calendar of publicly available professional development short courses for people interested in honing their diplomatic tradecraft, and deepening their global...
