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New Research

Indonesia and Australia: time for a step change

08 March 2010The relationship with Indonesia is one of Australia’s most important but it is still not on a firm footing, argues Fergus Hanson.

Security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific: volume 2

26 February 2010This report identifies the way the region's physical and geographical characteristics combine with limited human and technological capacity to reduce the ability of states to undertake day-to-day policing and respond effectively to large scale breakdowns in law and order.

Economic and fiscal policy strategies for climate change mitigation in Indonesia

25 January 2010This paper spells out a longer-term strategic framework, grounded in economic principle and international experience, that can guide climate policymaking in Indonesia.

The Mekong: river under threat

04 December 2009This paper evaluates the potentially huge social and environmental risks for the Mekong River and the millions who depend on it for their livelihood of planned dam projects in Laos and Cambodia.

Handle with care: private security companies in Timor-Leste

16 November 2009The international debate surrounding the engagement of private security providers is becoming increasingly important in Timor-Leste.
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Defence

Nuclear weapons: Arms control, proliferation and nuclear security

15 March 2010The nuclear arms control agenda currently enjoys a prominence that it has not had since the first half of the 1990s. 

Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management

02 March 2010This report argues that it's time for Defence to more fully incorporate domestic disaster assistance tasks as part of its core business.

International issues

Obama in his own words: On leadership, force, and rebuilding US primacy

15 March 2010 For over sixty years Australia has done well out of a US-led world, according to this report.  Our strategic interests would be well served by Obama’s successfully rebuilding US primacy. 

The economic vitality report: the impact of the GFC on Australians

15 March 2010Althrough the global financial crisis proved to be more of a slowdown than a recession in Australia and that the economy improved throughout 2009, this report finds that more people felt their personal circumstances had declined.

Commentary

Australia’s expanding borders

02 December 2009Our border cooperation with regional neighbours has entered questionable territory, writes Savitri Taylor in Inside Story

The G20's missed opportunity

24 August 2009Australia and the west missed an opportunity when they largely ignored a UN report on the financial crisis, writes Ross Buckley in Inside Story

The West can win in Afghanistan

12 August 2009Now is not the time to abandon Afghanistan argue Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove.
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Audio

Liberalism and Australian foreign policy

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15 March 2010From the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War, from international law to the treatment of refugees, Mr Fraser discusses the meaning of liberalism in the global context.

Moving the development agenda forward in today's world

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15 February 2010Helen Clark discussed the role of the United Nations Development Programme and the importance of aid in managing ongoing priorities, while remaining flexible to the ever present threat of natural disasters and conflicts.

Pacific Islands & New Zealand

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

28 January 2010This anual selection of writing from ANU scholars ranges from archaeology, linguistics and history to economics, political science and security policy.

Time for a fresh approach: Australia and Fiji relations post-abrogation

28 January 2010This report argues that it is time for the Australian Government  to prepare the grounds for a more effective re-engagement with the Government of Fiji.

Video

Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development

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09 October 2009'We live in a highly mobile world where migration is not only inevitable but also an important decision.'

Reshaping global economic geography

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24 August 2009Truman Packard presents the findings of the 2009 World Bank Development Report which he co-authored. Speaking at Sydney University, he looks at the geography of economic development and how spatial factors affect development potential.

Asia

Rates of return to university education: the regression discontinuity design

15 March 2010This paper develops a model to estimate the value of returning to a university degree and the causal effect of a university education on earnings in China.

Stronger, simpler, smarter ESOS: supporting international students

09 March 2010This final report of the Baird review of the legislation that governs international education in Australia makes a series of recommendations for reform.

Websites

Austral Peace and Security Network

21 September 2009Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Bulletin covers critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region.

Australian Development Gateway

31 August 2009The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) supports members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.

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Books

TV drama in China

  • Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoydon Bai
  • University of Washington Press
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collection explores industry dynamics, how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights.
Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

  • Ron Huisken
  • ANU E Press
China's transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power.

Noticeboard

Policy Guides

Combating trafficking in persons: A handbook for parliamentarians

The handbook, produced by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking.

18-09-09

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