Economic Relations between Australia and the European Union: Law and Policy reviewer Professor G R Walker — Reading room 21 July 2014This important book seeks to unravel a commercial puzzle. The reality is that the European Union (EU) and […] Read More
Dangerous Allies Reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards AM FAIIA — Reading room 18 July 2014Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies is the latest round in a debate that can be traced back at least as far as the […] Read More
India in South Asia: Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP reviewer Alexander E. Davis — Reading room 14 July 2014Indian foreign policy is often described as having shed its ‘postcolonial baggage’, having had a moralistic ‘chip on […] Read More
Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan reviewer Kerri Ng — Reading room18 June 2014In recent years, Japan appears to have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bold drive […] Read More
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