Past events
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn
While monarchical succession in the modern western world has little impact on daily politics, the accession of King Rama X has profoundly affected Thai society in previously unimagined ways. This...
US-China Rivalry: Security Dilemma or Power Transition?
The defining security challenge of our times is the US-China geopolitical rivalry, the intensity of which seems to be growing by the day. International relations scholars have resorted to two...
A history of LGBTIQ+ service in the Australian Defence Force
The Australian armed forces have gone on a long journey in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) service, alternating between rejection, persecution,...
The War Game: Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq
In this seminar, Professor David Horner will be discussing his new book, The War Game, Australian War leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq. Committing the nation to war is the gravest decision its...
Climate change: can Australia survive?
Climate change is the number one security threat Australia is facing. Unlike more traditional state-on-state threats, climate change has the potential to destabilise Australia to the point that it...
Power and Restraint in China’s Rise
Why and when does China exercise restraint—and how does this aspect of Chinese statecraft challenge the conventional narrative about rising powers’ behaviour?
In Power and Restraint in...
Renegotiating Japan’s ‘Post-War Bargains’
The 1970s witnessed significant changes to the post-war international order: the rise and fall of U.S.-Soviet détente, Sino-U.S. rapprochement, the crisis of the Bretton-Woods system/the General...
The Almost War: The Empire and the Chanak Crisis, 1922
September this year will be the centenary of the Chanak Crisis of 1922, when Lloyd George and Churchill almost took the Empire to war with Kemal Ataturk’s Nationalists—Gallipoli 2.0 they...
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘Phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia
The fear of the malingering soldier or veteran has existed in Australia since its first nationwide military venture in South Africa. The establishment of the Repatriation Department in 1917 saw...
Thailand and Australia: Middle powers in an era of geopolitical change
Australia and Thailand are both middle powers and allies of the United States. Both are important players in the Indo-Pacific, with Thailand the second largest economy in ASEAN and Australia a...
