by Naren Chitty | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
AUKUS is a fait accompli. Many in Australia, UK, and the US believe it will contribute to regional stability. Others have voiced concerns that AUKUS will prompt an arms race and instability. France is angry at what it sees as an abus de confiance. Is there a role here...
by Chenjun Wang | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
As Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes o’mice and men gang aft agley” (often go awry). This happens more-often-than-not. Resilience as a strategic concept has been used in the oil crisis of the 1970s, 9/11 terrorist attacks, global financial crisis, and...
by Thomas Lonergan | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
The challenge to design the force Australia needs, not deliver the toys the defence department really wants. Defence is in a big hole and true to form, continues to dig itself deeper. The capability design of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) – known as ‘force...
by Melissa Conley Tyler | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
There is an imbalance in the way Australia approaches its foreign policy today. Defence spending1 is returning to levels last seen during the Cold War while funding for diplomacy2 is at a record low. Australia’s development aid3 is at the bottom of the pack....
by Doris Asante | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
Terrorist incidents in the last decade have declined globally however, the threats that radicalization and extremism pose to national and regional security persist (Mullins 2020). In the Asia-Pacific region, recent incidents of suicide bombings in the Philippines, the...
by James Curran | Dec 27, 2021 | Papers
A future Labor government’s foreign policy will inevitably confront the two defining issues of our time: China’s continued assertiveness and the question of political stability in the US. Arguably, it is the latter which may prove the most difficult for the Australian...
