This Policy Analysis suggests that both Australia and NATO have to think harder about their emerging partnership. The NATO Secretary-General recently described such partnerships as a 'permanent feature' of international security in the 21st century and Australia, with competent military forces and a willingness to deploy them far afield, brings more to a relationship than...

This Policy Analysis examines the challenges confronting the forthcoming Defence White Paper. Rod Lyon argues that the White Paper needs to define the relationship between three core variables: a complex strategic environment, a set of decisions about Australia’s role in the world, and the constraints that limit that 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.

This Special Report authored by Rod Lyon examines the debate over what is - or what ought to be - the 'ordering principle' of Australian strategic thinking. In an era of quickening globalisation and the heightened strategic complexity, geography is proving a less useful determinant of strategic priorities. Rather, Australia has in recent years been...

Rod Lyon and William Maley look at Australia's interests in the Middle East from two very different perspectives: that of the strategic analyst, and that of the regional expert, enriched by a close knowledge of the countries and cultures of the Middle East. Australia’s interests in the Middle East refl ect its broader interests in...