Australia is a member of the Friends of Yemen, and Canberra can play an important role in encouraging practical steps towards its recovery that will go a long way towards averting a major security and humanitarian disaster, one that will likely occur if adequate international assistance is not provided soon.

This paper examines the possible escalation of conflict between China and Japan and the implications for Australia and the US. Executive summary: Political competition and a lack of crisis management mechanisms could make it very hard for China and Japan to resist escalatory pressures in the very plausible event of a minor armed clash in...

In this critical period of transition, the most important thing that the Australian government and other members of the international community can do is help Solomon Islanders reverse a recent history of defunding and dismantling the institutions of subnational government. Abstract Over the past decade, RAMSI has stabilized the state in Solomon Islands, but many...

This paper analyses the circumstances under which conflict in the East China Sea could occur and the implications for Australia.

This paper explores how the concept of ‘political settlement’ in statebuilding arose, identifies its essential elements, the level of consensus around them, and tests out some of its normative content. Abstract Over the past five years, several major international development policy statements and declarations have adopted ‘political settlement’ as a framing concept to guide statebuilding...