Past events
Partners in deterrence: US nuclear weapons and alliances in Europe and Asia
Since the dawn of the atomic age, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclear weapons cooperation in US alliances has varied...
Guardians of the Nation? The Indonesian military’s collective memory of defeat in East Timor
For the Indonesian military, the independence of East Timor in 1999 represented the end of twenty-three years of seemingly futile efforts to integrate the province into the Republic of Indonesia...
Cultures of crisis: How the Asia-Pacific can lead global peace and security
The Asia Pacific is predicted to have the greatest proportion of people already exposed and vulnerable to concurrent extreme weather events and the intensification of climate change-related...
Are China and Russia in a defacto alliance?
A memorial lecture in honour of the late Professor Desmond Ball AO
Des was the leading figure in strategic studies of his generation and made a major contribution to global scholarship in...
The evolution of an Asia-Pacific security cooperation network: Joint military exercises involving China
How has security cooperation changed in the Asia-Pacific? Regional countries have increasingly carried out security cooperation activities with China, despite the absence of formal alliance ties....
Not your parents' Cold War: Why this time is different and more dangerous
It is only natural that we see the ‘new Cold War’ through the lens of the old one. But how far is the new Cold War against China like the old one against the Soviet Union?
Today’s policies...
The politics of nuclear commemoration in Asia: The China case
In the study of China’s foreign affairs, historians like to suggest that the past is always present. A ‘Century of Humiliation’ in the nineteenth century or fighting the Japanese in the 1930s and...
Competing Strategic Imaginaries in Asia
The contemporary struggle in Asia is as much about competing strategic ‘imaginaries’ as it is about military or economic power. Geopolitics is a way of framing the world; it rests on imagining and...
War Studies Seminar Series
“Bricks Without Straw”: The Allies and the Beachhead Operations, November 1942-January 1943
The Australian and American operations to secure the Japanese beachheads in Papua were arguably...
The Challenge of Warning Time in the Contemporary Strategic Environment
The government’s recent conclusion that Australia can no longer assume a warning time of 10 years for major conflict is a critical break from the defence policies of the past 50 years. It is...
