Past events
Book Launch: Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes David Sissons & D Section
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You are warmly invited to attend the book launch of Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes: David Sissons and D Special Section during the Second World War edited by Desmond Ball...
Health, Desire, Respect and Fear: Talking to men about violence against women and HIV prevention in East New Britain Province, PNG
Communities in East New Britain have been targeted by a steady stream of government, overseas donor, church and other non-government interventions aimed at preventing HIV and violence against...
Opposing authoritarianism in Malaysia
In this seminar, Haris Ibrahim, one of Malaysia's most prominent social activist, will reflect on his long experience in organising political reform and rights movements in Malaysia, such as...
The US Pivot to Asia: What It Means for Australia
After Barack Obama was forced by the government shutdown/debt ceiling crisis to stay in Washington rather than participate in APEC and the EAS, and with crises inexorably drawing the US back into...
Democracy and Vietnam
The two words €œdemocracy€ and €œVietnam€ are rarely paired even in scholarly literature. Yet one can credibly say that democracy and politics in contemporary Vietnam go hand in hand. One...
PhD Thesis Proposal Seminar: explaining emerging powers through the concept of emerging pivot states - comparative foreign policies of Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey
My research aims to aim to develop a theory that seeks to account for a better explanation of emerging powers. Despite growing attention to developing countries in the categories of emerging€ or...
The Fiji Constitution of September 2013
Abstract: The military regime in power in Fiji since 2006 has made a new national Constitution under which elections will be held before September 2014. This presentation will examine the...
The Politics of Aristocracy in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
The seminar focuses on the question why some aristocrats have staged successful political comebacks in post-Suharto politics, while others have failed to do so. Since Indonesia's democratization...
Civilian women, female ex-combatants and the challenges of transitional justice in Sri Lanka
At the end of the three-decade long conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, the majority of victims in the north and east of Sri Lanka were women €“ both civilians and ex-combatants €“ who face a...
Maritime power in the western pacific : a review
The trends affecting the global development of maritime power are especially evident in the Western Pacific and will shape the future of the Indo-Pacific region. Torn between the challenges of...
