Leon Sigal of the Social Sciences Research Council examines the utility of a Japan-South Korea nuclear weapon free zone under three North Korea nuclear scenarios: containment, rapprochement, and collapse. Focusing on failing containment, Sigal argues that if North Korea is unwilling to live up to its commitment to denuclearise, “a Japan-South Korea NWFZ might help...

This publication assesses the 2009 Defence White Paper.

Richard Leaver of Flinders University writes that the Australian activist foreign policy tradition in disarmament has long been “in a state of decline, and the main source of this slippage has been the gradual triumph of form over substance in the realm of safeguards and disarmament diplomacy.” A glutted uranium market meant that “Canberra came...

Budi Haryanto of the University of Indonesia reviews expected global health impacts of climate change, and then outlines both direct and indirect health impacts specific to Indonesia. After setting out specific drivers of the climate change-health nexus in Indonesia, Haryanto summarises the range of current Indonesian research on health impacts. He then sets out adaptation...

Journalist Nic Maclellan writes that the new Agreement between Australia and France regarding Defence Cooperation and Status of Forces has come at a time when France is restructuring its armed forces and rationalising its overseas bases around the world. In the Pacific, Maclellan writes that France's renewed focus on New Caledonia as a major regional...