Reading Room: Australia, Canada, and Iraq: Perspectives on an Invasion Reviewed by Dr Alison Broinowski FAIIA — Reading room 05 October 2016Australia and Canada are divided by a vast ocean, the pronunciation of a common language and unequal capacities […] Read More
Reading Room: Syria Reviewed by Dr Anthony Billingsley — Reading room 26 September 2016As someone who has lived in and studied Syria, its history, culture and people, I was attracted to Samer Abboud’s personal engagement with […] Read More
Reading Room: Theorising the Responsibility to Protect Reviewed by John Sanderson AC FAIIA — Reading room 21 September 2016While the catastrophes of Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo in the 1990s provided the recent focus for the international community’s response to the protection […] Read More
Reading Room: Civil Resistance in West Papua Reviewed by Professor Damien Kingsbury — Reading room 12 September 2016Injustices continue to be perpetrated upon the people of West Papua. Consequently, there continue to be calls by well-meaning outsiders and by West […] Read More
Reading Room: Deepening India-Japan Relations Reviewed by Professor Purnendra Jain — Reading room 04 September 2016Only a couple of decades ago, scholarly interest in India–Japan relations was almost non-existent. Since the turn of the century and especially in […] Read More
Reading Room: Perspectives on Australia-Turkey Relations Reviewed by Dr John Vecihi Basarin OAM — Reading room 30 August 2016The failed coup attempt of 15 July 2016 and what happened afterwards has made Michalis Michael’s book, which in part focuses on the […] Read More
Reading Room: The Mandibles Reviewed by Melissa Conley Tyler FAIIA — Reading room 23 August 2016Fiction can provide a window into current anxieties and possible futures. This chronicle of the trials of a fictional US family achieves both. […] Read More
Reading Room: Russia's Far East Reviewed by Chris Farnham — Reading room 15 August 2016When most of us think of Russia we think of Moscow, St Petersburg, Crimea and the like; few think of Russia’s Far East […] Read More
Thai Politics: Between Democracy and its Discontents Reading room 09 August 2016After two coups, a decade of political strife and this week’s referendum vote in favour of further military involvement in government, Thai politics […] Read More
Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar Reviewed by Andrew Selth — Reading room 01 August 2016Australia has a strong tradition of diplomatic memoirs. Many former ambassadors and other officials have recorded their experiences and impressions of international events. […] Read More