Past events
Adversarial Linkages: The urban poor and electoral politics in Jakarta
Abstract How do social movements rooted among poor and marginalized citizens bargain and forge coalitions with politicians, and win concessions from them, when electoral competition is...
Australia’s Future Submarines: Getting this Key Capability Right
Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University & Michael Keating, Former Head of the Australian Public Service talk about Australia’s future submarines and...
Constitution reform, debates and contestation in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands Independence Order, 1978 was adopted with limited community input. As such, it may have avoided local intricacies that are now at the forefront of debates around the draft...
In their time of need: Australia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
Since 1918 Australia’s defence forces have been used by successive governments as the first point of call in responding to overseas disasters, including to deliver and distribute food and medical...
Why do we support Donald Trump? The perverse consequences of alliance politics
Donald Trump is possibly the most unpredictable, unprepared, and temperamentally unsuited person ever to be elected president of the US. Even his own political party is aghast at some of his...
Global Guardian or Global Failure? Evaluating the UN Security Council: In conversation with Ian Martin, Executive Director of Security Council Report
In this Distinguished Visitor Public Conversation, renowned United Nations peacebuilding practitioner Ian Martin will share his insights on the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations...
Mr Mothercountry: Colonialism and the rule of law
PRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE
One of the most interesting areas of scholarship in recent years has been the relationship between colonialism and the rule of law. Several...
Islamic Nationalism: The Armed Resistance of Patani Malays in Southern Thailand
Abstract This research investigates the transformations of political ideologies of contemporary liberation movements in southern Thailand. The year 2004 marked a dramatic surge of violent...
Political Authority in Vietnam: Is the Vietnamese communist party a paper leviathan?
Abstract In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam, a single-Party state, this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ (‘uy’) and its...
Not ‘When’ World Government but ‘Why?’ The Centrality of Institutional Moral Purpose in Theorising Global Political Integration
Questions around how to define or more broadly conceptualise an integrated global institutional order have become increasingly salient as academic interest in world government, the world state and...
