Defence Planning and Uncertainty: Preparing for the Next Asia-Pacific War reviewer Dr Richard Brabin-Smith — Reading room 20 April 2015My colleague Stephan Frühling has written a marvellous book on the vexed subject of how to handle the […] Read More
Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations reviewer Professor Roland Bleiker — Reading room 13 April 2015In this innovative and important new book, Danielle Chubb examines how political activism in South Korea has come to shape discussions around the […] Read More
Australia and the World: A Festschrift for Neville Meaney Reviewed by Professor Peter Boyce AO — Reading room 06 April 2015The editors of this handsomely produced volume pay tribute to an Australian historian of foreign policy whose long career at Sydney University has […] Read More
Ministers for Foreign Affairs: 1960-1972 Reading room 27 March 2015A question to tax the most devoted Australian foreign affairs tragic: Name the four Liberal foreign affairs ministers who served in the four […] Read More
The Adolescent Country reviewer Professor Richard Broinowski — Reading room 24 March 2015In his keynote address to world leaders at the G20 Summit in Brisbane last November, Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, chose to complain […] Read More
Individual Rights and the Making of the International System Reviewed by Professor Ian Hall — Reading room 14 March 2015How did we end up with a world divided, in political terms, into 200 sovereign states? This is a major question in International […] Read More
R.G.Casey: Minister for External Affairs 1951-60 Reading room 09 March 2015In analysing foreign policy, the great forces of national power and politics can dominate explanations and expectations. Personalities bob and weave through story. […] Read More
France, Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century 1900-1940: A Reappraisal Reviewed by Emeritus Professor James Cotton FAIIA — Reading room 02 March 2015This book is an original and stimulating contribution to two literatures that generally subsist apart; the literature of […] Read More
The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies Reviewer Professor Kanishka Jayasuriya — Reading room23 February 2015This path-breaking and innovative book by Rodan and Hughes tackles one of the most important questions in comparative […] Read More
Can Science Fix Climate Change? Reviewer Siobhan Neyland — Reading room 16 February 2015The anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force ten years ago today, gives us pause to reflect on the progress made […] Read More