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Our academics regularly provide analysis, opinion and commentary in the media.

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Trump win, 1.5 C warming breach weigh on UN COP climate finance talks
Salā Dr George Carter speaks to Benar News

AUKUS proves Australia and U.S. to be an Odd Couple: Book Review
Benedict Moleta gives a book review in Independent Australia

Fake kidnaps and real dangers of disinformation in Pacific Islands
Dr Anouk Ride writes in Lowy Institute - The Interpreter

Harris and Trump’s closing message to voters couldn’t be further apart
Wes Widmaier speaks to The New Daily

Why is the Commonwealth so popular, despite its colonial legacy?
Dr George Carter speaks on the ABC Pacific Beat

King Charles III arrives to Samoa
Salā Dr George Carter speaks to ABC Pacific Beat

China’s government is about to spend big on stimulus – can it turn around the country’s sluggish economy?
Wenting He and Wesley Widmaier write in The Conversation

Jokowi was once seen as Indonesia’s ‘new hope’. Instead, he leaves a legacy of democratic backsliding
Edward Aspinall writes in The Conversation

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Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)
Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

Prabowo’s capitulation in Constitutional Court crisis only a partial victory
An apparent win for civil society masks elite political manoeuvring as Indonesia’s local elections loom.
Denghua Zhang

Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'
Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'
Women with traditional hats working at village by Phuong

Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2024
The Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2024 recognises the best academic essay by an undergraduate, Honours or Masters student from any discipline at ANU.
Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speaker Tahlea Aualiitia and Ngunnawal Elder, Aunty Serena Williams. Photo Credit: Luka Vertessy

Confluence and Creation in Asia and the Pacific: Asia Pacific Week 2024
A semester’s worth of hard work went by in a blur as 60 conference delegates brought their own brand of warmth and enthusiasm to a chilly ANU campus in June.
DPA Graduation

Congratulations to DPA graduates!
DPA’s new HDR graduates in July 2024
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Seamus in Taiwan during a trip in 2022 with the Australian Institute of International Affairs

Seamus Dove – My teachers really went above and beyond
Seamus was blown away by the wonderful courses and teachers when he started studying a Master of Strategic Studies (Advanced).
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Benjamin Fullarton – Best of both worlds
When Ben came to ANU, he was not very sure what to study. Three and half years later, he completed his Master of International Relations with zero regrets.
  • Graduation
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AADPSP graduands (left to right): Reza, Shahril, Vannak, and Daniel

A bond lasting longer than our lives: Journeys of four AADPSP students
Four Master of Strategic Studies graduands from the ASEAN – Australia Defence Postgraduate Scholarship Program share their exciting journeys of study, family, and friendship at the Bell School.
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Past events
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Tue, 5 Nov 2024

The Influences on British Strategic Decision-Making in the Iraq Intervention 2003 - 2009

PhD Oral Presentation
Thu, 31 Oct 2024

A transformative blue economy? Discourse, hegemony and passive revolution in Oceania

DPA Seminar Series
Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Women and Peace and Security: The Next 25 Years

Department of International Relations 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series
Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Structural power, feminist insurgency and the (false?) promise of a better future

Professorial Lecture Series 
Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Rituals of release: The meanings and experience of mass pardons in Myanmar

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Sacrifices, expectations and outcomes: the children of long-term temporary migration

Join us to explore the long-term impacts on children of ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers participating in New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE) and Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programm
Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Explaining China’s Approach to the Global Governance of Sovereign Debt Distress: A State Transformation Analysis

China, Development and International Order Seminar Series
Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Almost at 29: Reflections on implications of the UN Climate Change Conference for planetary health equity, "In-conversation" with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse PhD researchers

Episode 15 features three Planetary Health Equity Hothouse PhD researchers, who will reflect on the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) and the role of international venues o
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