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New Research

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

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

15 March 2010For 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.

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.
Reforming the global order

Reforming the global order

05 March 2010Despite the many reasons to be pessimistic about the current world situation there are some distinguished optimists out there, with concrete plans for change for the better.
Perspectives on migrants 2010

Perspectives on migrants 2010

05 March 2010Issues and debates relating to migrants, ethnicity and migration programs are common place within the Australian political and media landscape.
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Defence

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

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.

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.

International issues

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

Danger in new trade agreement with the US

17 March 2010Why would any Australian government want another trade deal with the US, ask Ruth Townsend and Thomas Faunce in On Line Opinion

Australia-India: reimagining the relationship

15 February 2010First, let’s fix the education problems. Then let’s recognise the missing link in Australia–India relations, writes Robin Jeffrey in Inside Story

The fine art of diplomacy

27 January 2010The lack of Australian cultural diplomacy in China has ramifications which reach far beyond the cultural sector, writes Dan Edwards in New Matilda.
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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.

Asia pivots

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05 March 2010Dr Malcolm Cook speaks on how Asia's continental and horizontal dimensions are reasserting themselves - in ways that question Australia's place in Asia.

Pacific Islands & New Zealand

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.

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.

Video

Kevin Rudd's world: The PM's global hopes and fears

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19 February 2010After two years and a whirlwind of activity in Australia's foreign affairs, what has Kevin Rudd got to show for all his global ambition?

John Pilger attacks the Australian Government

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26 November 2009As conflicts rage around the globe, Pilger argues that in Australia we have largely remained silent on injustices in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Aboriginal communities and refugees.

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.

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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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