Past events
Postgraduate Information Evening
Whether you are an experienced professional looking for a career change, or just finished your degree and are thinking about further study, come along to this event to learn about postgraduate...
Solomons Federalism, and Bougainville Referendum: Issues and Prospects
Both Solomon Islands and Bougainville are approaching critical points when longstanding debates about proposals and processes for fundamental changes in political arrangements are coming to a head...
Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia
Speakers
The Hon. Mr Kalfau Kaloris Vanuatu’s High Commissioner to Australia
Mr Sakias Tameo PNG’s Acting High Commissioner to Australia
With participation by:...
Can Might Make Right? Grotian Rules of Regulation in International Relations
In this seminar, I investigate one of the most puzzling claims of international-relations realism: namely that, given anarchy, ‘might makes right’. I first distinguish it from descriptive and meta...
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Papua New Guinea: The first phase, 1884-1945
Since the 1980s, little systematic attention has been paid to the existence and activities of corporations in Papua New Guinea, even as their presence has grown substantially. There are studies of...
Leadership and Japanese Grand Strategy: Is there an "Abe Doctrine"?
Since becoming Japanese prime minister for a second time in 2012, Shinzō Abe has sought to remake Japan’s national security posture so that the country can play a more active role in international...
The Dialectics of World Orders
The Dialectics of World Orders manuscript, and the larger collaborative project out of which it emerged, has been long in the making. Begun at MIT in the late 1970s under the guidance of the late...
The Politics of Indonesia’s Foreign Policy under President Joko Widodo
Abstract The South China Sea disputes continue to be one of the most pertinent security issues in Southeast Asia. Historically, Indonesia has adopted a hedging strategy that combines maintaining...
The German Army and the development of its operational thinking in the era of the world wars
The development of the German Army’s operational thinking in the world war era and beyond is one of that institution’s most significant historical questions. That history is composed of several...
Sino Australian Relations in the Age of Trump
China today looms larger than ever in myriad aspects of Australian life — economic, political, strategic and cultural. Already it is plain that this must have implications for our relationship...
