With China's rise offering opportunities as much as it presents challenges, this paper puts forward recommendations for managing the relationship between Australia and China. Summary Sino-Australian diplomatic, economic and security ties have experienced significant growth over the past four decades. The general trends have been positive, especially in the economic area, where the two countries...

This paper addresses the many barriers to including tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into the nuclear arms control equation. The study proposes a new arms control treaty that would ban outright the development and possession of a special kind of tactical nuclear...

The stand-off on Iran’s nuclear program has reached a new crescendo this week after President Obama’s speech to the powerful Jewish lobbying group the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at its policy conference on 4 March 2012.

In recent months there has been a notable escalation in the warnings emanating from Israel and the United States about the threat of Iran’s nuclear program, which will allegedly culminate in the construction of a nuclear weapon. Accompanying these warnings have been open threats that Israel is considering bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, which Netanyahu’s government...

This research note by Jeffrey Robertson looks at North Korea’s aims, its methods of achieving these aims and the ongoing efforts at further diplomacy with North Korea.