Past events
After insolvency: Retrenchment and reconciliation during great power decline
In this seminar Dr Kyle Haynes examines how declining great powers balance the demands of competing with peer adversaries while pulling back from costly peripheral commitments. Contrary to the...
Appraising Thucydides’ Trap
Audio recording of the seminar.
The notion of ‘Thucydides’ Trap’ claims that the danger of war increases when a rising state approaches or overtakes a ruling state’s power. It offers the...
52nd meeting Aus-CSCAP
The Battle for Britain: Britain and the British Empire
Seminar audio recording.
In 1940, Britain faced the threat of invasion. While Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill fought a verbal political duel throughout the summer months, both sides...
Thinking the Unthinkable: Could Australia ever contemplate nuclear weapons?
John Gee Memorial Lecture
Professor Hugh White’s latest book How to Defend Australia has raised some challenging questions. One of them is whether there could be circumstances under which...
Naik Sungai: The river war in Borneo
Audio recording of the seminar.
Landing in Borneo in 1945 as part of the Oboe series of operations the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions confronted an operational environment in which...
Book Launch: Geopolitics and the Western Pacific
Join us for the launch of Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US by author Dr Leszek Buszynski.
Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the...
King Vajiralongkorn and the new political landscape
King Vajiralongkorn was crowned on 1 December 2016, although the official ceremony was not until 4 May 2019 (note that the official coronation was a three-day celebration from 4-6 May 2019)....
Book Launch by the Governor-General - National Versus Human Security: Australian and Canadian Military Interventions
Join us for the launch of National Versus Human Security : Australian and Canadian Military Interventions by author Dr Gregory MacCallion.
By examining two military interventions that...
New world orders: The rise of China in long-term perspective
In this lecture Professor Ian Morris will bring to bear the insights gained from over 30 years of scholarship investigating the development and organisation of human societies and their...
