Deconstructing the “Democratic peace”: How a Research Agenda Boomeranged reviewer Femke Avtalyon-Bakker — Reading room 10 June 2014At the International Studies Association Convention in Toronto in March, Michael Haas chaired a roundtable where he presented […] Read More
China's Borders: Settlements and Conflicts reviewer Professor Stuart Harris — Reading room 27 May 2014Neville Maxwell has long been known to specialists as a London Times reporter at the time of the India-China war in 1962 over […] Read More
Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics & the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987 reviewer Professor Robert Ayson — Reading room 26 May 2014Wellington’s alliance dispute with Washington over port access by United States vessels in the wake of New Zealand’s […] Read More
Anzac’s Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession reviewer Professor Joan Beaumont — Reading room 22 May 2014The approaching centenary of World War I has triggered some public questioning about the scale, character and purpose of the commemorations being planned […] Read More
The G20: A New Geopolitical World Order reviewer Dr. Daniela Strube — Reading room 22 May 2014Even in the year of that Australia holds the presidency, few Australians are deeply familiar with the G20, how it operates and what it […] Read More
Fortunate Voyager: The Worlds of Ninian Stephen reviewer Cameron Hawker — Reading room 12 May 2014In February 1983 the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, fretted over speculation that Bob Hawke was about to topple Bill Hayden and assume the […] Read More
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War reviewer Kimberley Layton — Reading room 06 May 2014Dead Reckoning is Sarmila Bose’s attempt to find a middle, and more factual, ground at the intersection of conflicting accounts of the 1971 […] Read More
Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the U.S. Military reviewer Dr. Kai Chen — Reading room 02 May 2014During the past decade, the U.S. military has shifted its strategic thinking to refocus the ‘situational awareness from […] Read More
Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening reviewer Joseph Power — Reading room 16 April 2014How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to […] Read More
Australia and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1945-1974 reviewer Professor Richard Broinowski — Reading room 10 April 2014On retirement in 1998, I was given almost unreserved access by Foreign Affairs and Trade to a rich archive of documents on Australian […] Read More