Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Reviewed by Duc Dao — Reading room 27 December 2015When Professor Derek McDougall wrote the first edition of this book in 2002, he lamented the relative under-development […] Read More
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order Reviewed by Akshay Mathur — Reading room 21 December 2015The discourse on the geopolitical and geoeconomic significance of BRICS has been polarised since Brazil, Russia, India and China met for the first […] Read More
Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry and Asia's New Geopolitics Reviewed by Dr Alison Broinowski FAIIA — Reading room 14 December 2015Speeches on foreign affairs often begin with the claim that we are living in a period of unprecedented change. Equally often, they invoke […] Read More
Japanese Diplomacy: The Role of Leadership Reviewed by Trevor Wilson — Reading room 07 December 2015David Envall belongs to a new generation of Australian scholars specialising in the study of the political and international dynamics of Australia’s Asian […] Read More
What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It reviewer Hannah Murphy-Gregory — Reading room 30 November 2015The multilateral trading system governed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is in serious trouble. In this book, Rorden Wilkinson makes the case […] Read More
A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads reviewer Professor Craig J. Reynolds — Reading room 23 November 2015I first read this book in the warm humid climate of northern Queensland. As in Java, volcanic activity early in the earth’s history […] Read More
Beyond Surrender Reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards AM FAIIA — Reading room 16 November 2015A striking feature of the development of the Anzac legend over the past hundred years has been the incorporation of the experience of […] Read More
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics Professor Swaran Singh — Reading room 02 November 2015The relevance of an Islamic Republic to an atheist China has been explained in multiple ways: Pakistan’s brokerage of China’s peace with the […] Read More
Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security Simone Burke — Reading room 23 October 2015The fact that infectious disease outbreaks have more reach in our increasingly globalised world is not very contentious. […] Read More
The Arabs at War in Afghanistan Dr. Laurens J. Visser — Reading room 06 October 2015Mustafa Hamid and Leah Farrall brush aside the inconsistencies that illustrate the myth of jihad in order to clarify the reality of the […] Read More