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Photo by Phoe Thar
Fri, 21 Jul - Sat, 22 Jul 2023

2023 Myanmar Update - From Coup to Revolution

The 2023 Myanmar Update aims to understand, celebrate, and explicate the Myanmar people’s resistance to the 1 February 2021 coup.

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Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb
Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Two years on: How will Russia's war on Ukraine end?

As Russia enters its third year of war against Ukraine, we need to ask: how will this war end?

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Image credit: Corporal Raymond Vance, Australian Government Department of Defence
Image credit: Corporal Raymond Vance, Australian Government Department of Defence
Thu, 23 May 2024

Accountability and Moral Reckoning after the Brereton Report

Department of International Relations 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series

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Ashley Deeks
Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Public Lecture: The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability

AI, Automated Systems, and the Future of War Public Lecture Series

Professor Craig Stockings
Wed, 27 Mar 2024

Robert O'Neill War Studies Lecture 2024

This Robert O'Neill War Studies lecture will be delivered by Professor Craig Stockings. 

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Forward Presence for Deterrence: Implications for the Australian Army

Forward presence for deterrence: Implications for the Australian Army

This report examines the role of land forces for signalling deterrence commitments, and draws lessons from historical experience for Australia and the Australian Army.
Professor Toni Erskine, ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Tue, 28 Nov 2023

Before Algorithmic Armageddon: The Immediate Risks of AI in War

This 2023 John Gee Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Toni Erskine. 

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Benjamin Faust, 2015, Unsplash.
Benjamin Faust, 2015, Unsplash.
Thu, 29 Aug 2024

A National Interest for Whom? Rethinking the Foundations of War, Peace, and Democracy

Department of International Relations 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series

Dr Paul Lushenko and Emily Hitchman
Thu, 6 Jun 2024

Battlefield Trust for Human-Machine Teaming: Evidence from the US Military

Discussing AI, Automated Systems, and the Future of War Seminar Series

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AADPSP 2024 cohort with SDSC lecturers at the welcome reception.
21 March 2024

ASEAN - Australia Defence Postgraduate Program renewed

Bell School welcomes a new cohort of Master of Strategic Studies students, and the renewal of our contract to deliver the ASEAN – Australia Defence Postgraduate Program for a further five years.
  • ASEAN
  • Security
  • Defence
Caitlin Bickerton 2023. Photo: Olivia Wenholz
Caitlin Bickerton 2023. Photo: Olivia Wenholz
08 November 2023

Estonia as cyber-security leaders — new internship for Bell School students

Caitlin Bickerton won the inaugural internship to travel to Estonia to spend five weeks working in the Estonian Foreign Ministry and attending the Tallinn Cyber Summer School and Cyber Conference.
  • Diplomacy
  • Cyber and technology
Amy King and Wenting He
Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The Resilience of Self-Reliance in China: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Order-Shaping

Amy King and Wenting He explore the enduring concept of 'self-reliance' (zili gengsheng) in Chinese political discourse over a century.

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AIG-ANU report on Defence Industry Policy launch
The panel included Ai Group CEO Innes Willox, ANU VC Prof Brian Schmidt, Ai Group Head of Defence and National Security Kate Louis, and authors Prof Stephan Frühling (ANU) and Dr Jeffrey Wilson (Ai Group)
22 March 2024

Rethinking the Future of Australian Defence Industry Policy

Last December, the Australian Industry Group (AIG) and ANU launched a report on Australia’s Defence Industry Policy, including five key recommendations.
  • Public policy
  • Defence
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HMAS Arunta, Naval Ship Management personnel, Royal Australian Navy. Photo by LSIS Susan Mossop
Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Rethinking the Future of Australian Defence Industry Policy

You are warmly invited to the launch of Defence Industry in 'National Defence': Rethinking the Future of Australian Defence Industry Policy.

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Elke Schwarz and Toni Erskine
Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Seated on the Whirlwind: Artificial Intelligence, Weapons Systems and Moral Agency

Discussing AI, Automated Systems, and the Future of War Seminar Series

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Strategic Diplomacy project, hero image. Jochen Prantl 2017
Strategic Diplomacy project, hero image. Jochen Prantl 2017
Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Strategic Diplomacy for 21st Century Defence and Statecraft - Launch

How best should key strategic partners in Asia and Europe meet their future defence and security needs in a world that offers less policy space and more complex problems?

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Soldier with robot canine in the bush
Thu, 19 Oct 2023

Australian Army Research Centre Fellowship - information session & roundtable workshop

Workshop with Prof Stephan Fruehling, LtCol James Groves, staff from the Army’s Research Centre and your fellow ANU researchers, for a light lunch and a brainstorming workshop focusing on the resea

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The Crossed Swords Victory Arch in Baghdad, Iraq.
Wed, 9 Aug 2023

Petroleum, Politics, and the Struggle for the State: The Case of Iraq

How has state cohesion in Iraq been shaped by resource dependency, coercion, and elite strategies to gain or maintain control?
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15 August 2023

Boyer Prize 2022 goes to Dr Denghua Zhang

Zhang's article ‘China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries’ has won the revered Boyer Prize for 2022.
  • Pacific
  • Security
Beatrice Heuser
Beatrice Heuser
Mon, 5 Sep 2022

Recurrent debates about strategy

There are recurrent debates in strategic studies that go back to Antiquity, before the word “strategy” even assumed its modern meanings.

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Wed, 2 Mar 2022

Not your parents' Cold War: Why this time is different and more dangerous

In this lecture, Hugh will offer a different view of the similarities and differences which suggest that optimism about this new Cold War is misplaced.
Private Security in Papua New Guinea - A Networked Approach
by Australian Civil-Military Centre
06 September 2021

PNG’s private security industry could improve public safety

A new report from researchers at The Australian National University highlights the vital role private security plays in ensuring public security across Papua New Guinea.
  • Security