Reading room

It is sometimes difficult to know what books to read on international issues; thankfully the AIIA has Reading Room: the online book review section of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Literature reviewed includes international relations, security or history, among other topics.
To suggest a title for review or to offer to review, contact australianoutlook@internationalaffairs.org.au.

14 May 2026
In Transformed by the People, Patrick Haenni and Jerome Drevon outline the emergence, development, deradicalisation and ultimate victory of Hay’at
06 May 2026
AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military Tech Complex is a book by Anthony King that offers a
30 Apr 2026
In 2011, as Alan Fewster recounts in Intelligencer: The Secret World of Walter Cawthorn, Australian Spymaster, a senior Australian foreign
31 Mar 2026
‘Crucible’ according to the Oxford English Dictionary refers figuratively to any severe test or trial. This surely is what contemporary
26 Feb 2026
Gina Athena Ulysse’s Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle fundamentally interrogates which stories are told of Haiti, and
05 Feb 2026
'Rethinking Techno-Politics in the Digital Age: Global Technology Relations and Security' offers an interdisciplinary framework that delves into the symbiotic
28 Jan 2026
The Big Fix continues in line with Palazzo’s trend of presenting well-considered analysis regarding his adopted country’s security vulnerabilities, both
28 Jan 2026
Since the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, international donors have substantially increased their financial support to
13 Jan 2026
This compact work by Bundeswehr University München professor Carlo Masala is in its sixth printing in German. An English translation,
28 Oct 2025
Bilahari Kausikan’s The Myth of the Asian Century challenges the popular idea that the twenty-first century belongs to Asia, arguing that such
09 Oct 2025
This book celebrates the transitions of Vietnam and Poland from central planning to market economies as triumphs of capitalism, but
01 Oct 2025
European security experts sometimes assume that NATO-style multilateral institutions should be the gold standard for defense cooperation everywhere, but the