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New Research

Nuclear weapons: Arms control, proliferation and nuclear security

15 March 2010The nuclear arms control agenda currently enjoys a prominence that it has not had since the first half of the 1990s. 
Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management

Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management

02 March 2010This report argues that it's time for Defence to more fully incorporate domestic disaster assistance tasks as part of its core business.

Security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific: volume 2

26 February 2010This report identifies the way the region's physical and geographical characteristics combine with limited human and technological capacity to reduce the ability of states to undertake day-to-day policing and respond effectively to large scale breakdowns in law and order.

Securing Australia, protecting our community

23 February 2010This white paper sets out the Australia government’s counter-terrorism objectives and the means by which it will pursue them.

John Howard's war: Australia's military involvement in Iraq

16 February 2010This paper focuses on Australia's military involvement in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 and its relationship with the United States during that period.
The QDR: a future of hybrid warfare?

The QDR: a future of hybrid warfare?

15 February 2010The latest formal statement of US defence policy sees a future of 'hybrid' warfare and suggests the US will be looking for more from its allies, including Australia.

International issues

The economic vitality report: the impact of the GFC on Australians

15 March 2010Althrough the global financial crisis proved to be more of a slowdown than a recession in Australia and that the economy improved throughout 2009, this report finds that more people felt their personal circumstances had declined.

Obama in his own words: On leadership, force, and rebuilding US primacy

15 March 2010For over sixty years Australia has done well out of a US-led world, according to this report. Our strategic interests would be well served by Obama’s successfully rebuilding US primacy.

Commentary

Eliminating nuclear weapons: Australia's role

30 October 2009Australia has a unique part to play in the international campaign, writes Daniel Tynan

Show of hands for call to arms

06 October 2009The decision to go to war should be subject to a veto power held jointly by both houses of federal parliament, argues George Williams in the National Times

Freedoms are losing out to fear

14 August 2009The proposed changes to anti-terrorism laws fail to find a balance between human rights and protecting citizens, writes Nicola McGarrity in The Age

Audio

Liberalism and Australian foreign policy

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15 March 2010From the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War, from international law to the treatment of refugees, Mr Fraser discusses the meaning of liberalism in the global context.

Political violence and new media

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30 October 2009Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums.

Pacific Islands & New Zealand

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

28 January 2010This anual selection of writing from ANU scholars ranges from archaeology, linguistics and history to economics, political science and security policy.

Time for a fresh approach: Australia and Fiji relations post-abrogation

28 January 2010This report argues that it is time for the Australian Government  to prepare the grounds for a more effective re-engagement with the Government of Fiji.

Video

David Kilcullen and Julian Burnside on tactics in the Iraq War

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31 August 2009This conversation at the Melbourne Writers Festival covers the ethics and tactics of contemporary warfare.

Beneath the surface: the new Defence White Paper

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03 June 2009Is the Rudd Government's new Defence White Paper more of the same or a significant departure from the previous strategic orthodoxy? More importantly, is it affordable, and will future governments commit to the level of spending necessary to ensure that the White Paper's ambitious goals for the Australian Defence Force are realised? What about the strategic judgements underpinning the decisions on spending and force structure?

Asia

Rates of return to university education: the regression discontinuity design

15 March 2010This paper develops a model to estimate the value of returning to a university degree and the causal effect of a university education on earnings in China.

Stronger, simpler, smarter ESOS: supporting international students

09 March 2010This final report of the Baird review of the legislation that governs international education in Australia makes a series of recommendations for reform.

Websites

Austral Peace and Security Network

21 September 2009Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Bulletin covers critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region.

Australian Defence College Publications

11 September 2009Australian Defence College publications are produced to foster research on important national and international defence and security matters.

Books

TV drama in China

  • Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoydon Bai
  • University of Washington Press
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collection explores industry dynamics, how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights.
Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

  • Ron Huisken
  • ANU E Press
China's transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power.

Policy Guides

The handbook, produced by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking.

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