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Terrorist financing: Pakistan is sort of off the hook for the moment
By Honorary Associate Professor Claude Rakisits At this week’s meeting of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which was established by the G-7 in 1989 to set measures for combating...
Reaching peace in Afghanistan and the Pakistan factor
By Honorary Associate Professor Claude Rakisits When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan returned home last week after his 3-day trip to Washington, he received a hero’s welcome. It was as if he...
DPA partners with University of New Caledonia to co-convene PIPSA conference, ‘Democracy, Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Pacific Islands’
From 25 – 27 June 2019, the Australian National University Department of Pacific Affairs and the University of New Caledonia LARJE Centre co-convened the PIPSA (Pacific Islands Political Studies...
Understanding how the ‘Pacific’ fits into the ‘Indo-Pacific’
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) and National Security College (NSC) of the Australian National University (ANU) recently hosted officials, public...
Territorial disputes in Belize - insights from an intern
BY MICHAEL BYRNE Michael Byrne is a Master of Diplomacy student currently undertaking an internship in Belize. Here he updates us on his experiences so far. Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to...
APCD inaugural international intern to Belize
The Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD) is now offering accredited international internships as part of the Master of Diplomacy degree. This will allow students to apply their knowledge of...
Three ARC grant successes for Bell School
This week three of our Bell School researchers have received the wonderful news that they have been successful in winning ARC research funding. We are delighted to congratulate: > Evelyn Goh from...
Focus: Will Donald Trump win in 2020?
The results of the US midterms were a mixed bag. Then Donald Trump sacked his Attorney-General. And banned a journalist. What does it all mean? Listen to Dr Wesley Widmaier and Matt Bevan discuss...
Nuclear Deterrence at Risk
US nuclear deterrence is at risk of being undermined, and Dr Ben Zala is headed to Harvard University to explore the cause. For Zala, the problem is the increasing importance of advanced conventional...
Why Turnbull's Asian summit trip was a missed opportunity
The APEC and East Asia Summit (EAS) meetings, both recently attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, are moments of ceremonial certainty amid the wider changes ongoing in the region. What were...