Past events
OCIS 2020 - Save the Date - Oceanic Conference on International Studies
Held every two years, OCIS is the premier conference in international studies held in Australasia. It brings together scholars working across all fields of international studies, and is known for...
Posing problems without shacking up: Prospects for a Sino-Russian alliance and implications for Asia-Pacific security
Is China forming a balancing coalition against the United States, in particular with Russia? The most recent scholarship does not address China’s balancing strategy because it focuses on...
Empire’s labor: The global army that supports US wars
Since 9/11 the US has become dependent on a vast army of foreign, contracted labor to fight its wars—to a degree unprecedented in the country’s history.
In this talk, Adam Moore details...
Sexual violence in armed conflict: Paths to recovery
Sexual violence is often the ‘silent crime’ of armed conflicts, leaving largely invisible scars that too often go unnoticed. For practitioners and researchers alike, how we talk and think about...
Understanding the Abrams Doctrine and post-Vietnam U.S. force structure policy
In the immediate period surrounding the end of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, the U.S. Army undertook a fundamental restructure of their active and reserve forces, linking them...
Liberal states, social bordering, and international order
A vigorous debate is underway about the future of the liberal international order, but contributions to this debate commonly discount the order’s pre-1945 origins, ignore fundamental shifts in its...
What's so special about Asian security? Dealing with economics and institutions.
Are the security landscape and dynamics in Asia significantly different compared to those in other world regions? Is there anything ‘special’ about Asian security that necessitates alterations or...
WEBINAR - Mobile telephones for public messaging: Did the referendum information hotline make a difference?
Last year, the people of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to break away from Papua New Guinea in a non-binding referendum. In the pre-referendum period, there was a...
In From the Cold - Book Launch
Australians served at sea, on land and in the air alongside their United Nations partners during the war. They fought with distinction, from bitterly cold mountain tops, to the frozen decks of...
Can We Trust America? Our Closest Ally in the Time of COVID
The ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and Australian Foreign Affairs will host an important discussion of Australia’s closest ally in the time of COVID, as its dominance in the...
