The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is the first multinational security body outside the US orbit to emerge since the Cold War's end. This Policy Analysis, authored by John Lee, outlines the SCO's origins and development, analyses the group's internal dynamics and offers an Australian policy response.

Intelligence is now at the forefront of our national security effort. Recent reforms have delivered more money and more people to the intelligence community but limited structural changes. This Policy Analysis, by Carl Ungerer, offers an assessment of the intelligence reform agenda and proposes some further steps towards restructuring the intelligence community and its activities...

Media reports of the endorsement of the launch of a planning process to replace Australia's Collins class submarine fleet sometime in the 2020s have cited a cost of up to $25 billion. This paper explains why the cost might be so high, and examines some of the compromises that would be necessary to reduce the...

This paper provides background information on the military conflict in Afghanistan. Security issues are considered as well as the role of development assistance. The author offers a 15-year vision for Afghanistan and derives from it a medium-term strategy for assistance, leading to recommendations on Australia's role.

During 2007 ASPI sponsored an expert Task Force which included specialists in international security terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The Task Force was asked to make judgments about what the War on Terror might look like 'after' Iraq. This consensus report is a product of the group's discussions.