Past events
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...
Recurrent debates about strategy
There are recurrent debates in strategic studies that go back to Antiquity, before the word “strategy” even assumed its modern meanings.
They concern the role of chance, the role of higher...
Hitler’s fatal miscalculation
Dr Klaus Schmider describes his recent book, Hitler’s fatal miscalculation, as a military historian’s attempt to analyse the 20th Century’s most momentous and most idiosyncratic act of horizontal...
Why did Russia attack Ukraine and what are its geopolitical implications?
This ANU Public Lecture will examine why President Putin decided to invade Ukraine and what the implications are for international order, including the risk of a wider war in Europe and the...
2022 John Gee Memorial Lecture - The future of IAEA safeguards, and the future of global security
Please note the change of venue for this event. A reception will follow the lecture where refreshments will be served.
About the speakerMr Rafael Mariano Grossi is Director-General,...
Searching for supply: RAAF expansion and US Operational Aircraft, 1935-1941
When Japan attacked European and US possessions in the Asia-Pacific on 7-8 December 1941, the Australian government had more combat aircraft on order from American firms than Australian and...
