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Minister for Foreign Affairs launches the Pacific Research Program
On Tuesday 24 October the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, launched the Pacific Research Program. The PRP is a consortium led by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia...
Widening definitions of terrorism threaten press freedom, warns Peter Greste
By CAP student correspondent Diana Tung Journalist Peter Greste has spoken out against limitations to journalistic freedoms imposed by new anti-terror laws during a recent event at The Australian...
SDSC PhD candidate Deborah Jeppesen awarded the Royal United Services Institute of Australia Leo Mahoney Bursary
Deborah Jeppesen, who is undertaking her PhD at SDSC under Dr. Aurore Chow, has been awarded the Royal United Services Institute of Australia Leo Mahoney Bursary. The award was made on the basis of...
Why ISIS is so good at branding its failures as successes
When you think about terrorist attacks the way the Islamic State does, even blatant technical failure can become strategic success. It’s all about how shrewdly you brand an attack after the fact—and...
New travel grants launched for Security students
International Security Studies students studying at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs will soon be eligible for one of two new travel grants worth $1000 each. The grants, run through the...
Bell School historian receives top history prize
Professor Robert Cribb has been awarded Australia’s most important award for history publications. Professor Cribb, of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, won the prestigious...
Being a good neighbour: Australia in Asia
Re-imagining Australia’s relationships with its neighbours poses no small challenge. Yet, a panel of academics from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre took up just that question at the...
Regional roundup spotlights Australia’s key relationships
In trying to understand what kind of neighbour Australia wants to be in the Asia-Pacific, a regional roundup is as good as any. Speaking at the Australian National University’s annual Australia 360...
Is a second Sino-Indian border war imminent?
The Sino-Indian standoff in the Doklam (Donglang in Chinese) region of the Himalayas where the borders of China, India and Bhutan converge is now nearly two months old. The dispute arose in mid-June...
Thinking seriously about Asia's arms control
While much of the attention on the Asian nuclear order is rightly focused on the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang’s increasingly credible nuclear weapons program is only the tip of the iceberg. A region...
