As Australia’s prominent role in the ‘coalition of the willing’ in Iraq demonstrates, the strategy of cultivating close ties with the Leviathan or – in more contemporary parlance – the hegemon, is alive and well. In this essay Mark Beeson asks whether this is an appropriate strategy at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and...

Today, private companies offer services for every aspect of life, including the security and military sector. They are also employed to secure the world's oceans. In the last ten years an increasing number of private companies offering anti-piracy services have surfaced and expanded. Despite their growing numbers, there is a number of problems and controversies...

The poor state of Indigenous housing in remote areas is generally acknowledged as one of Australia's most intractable housing problems. The thesis examines why the remote Indigenous housing system does not meet the housing needs of Indigenous people in remote areas and discusses an alternative system.

The International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones argues that although terrorism in Southeast Asia is a serious problem, we need to keep it in perspective, as most Southeast Asians do, and make sure the tools we use to try to contain it help rather than hurt.

Garry Rodan analyses the nature and significance of different views on the relationship between economic and political liberalism by examining the meaning and purpose of transparency reform among neoliberals. He also assesses the implications of these transparency reforms for regimes in Southeast Asia.