In the context of cities the terms 'resilience' and 'vulnerability' are often seen narrowly in terms of physical infrastructure, demographic data, tangible assets and documented economic flows. These are very important, but there may be more fundamental contributors to vulnerability in cities as large agglomerations of human diversity, wealth creation and almost infinite sources of...

The first public crack in Australian political elite's repudiation of nuclear weapons since the Canberra Commission, if not the signing of the NPT itself, has come from a surprising source: a former advisor to Gareth Evans and a disarmament policy specialist in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. After a brief, apparently tough-minded tour...

The Urban 45 initiative crosses 15 themes with 3 proposals each (hence the '45' of the title) for public intervention in each area, to ensure that our nation’s cities are given a central place in efforts to ensure prosperity for all and to revitalise our community and physical infrastructure.

William Tow, of the Australian National University argues that the March 2007 Japan-Australia Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation was symbolic of one of two possibilities that Australia foreign policy must chose between: 'a strategy of regional engagement designed to pursue community-building and avoid security dilemmas, or one that designates China as a rising strategic challenge...

Robert McClelland, ALP Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, writes that 'the Howard government is worse than ambivalent when it comes to nuclear non proliferation - it is positively obstructive.' International security has, he notes, 'been made more volatile by a combination of nuclear proliferation and the involvement of non-state actors' 'as the number of potential...