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.

12 May 2014
In February 1983 the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, fretted over speculation that Bob Hawke was about to topple Bill Hayden
06 May 2014
Dead Reckoning is Sarmila Bose’s attempt to find a middle, and more factual, ground at the intersection of conflicting accounts
02 May 2014
During the past decade, the U.S. military has shifted its strategic thinking to refocus the ‘situational awareness from the state
16 Apr 2014
How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to debating the
10 Apr 2014
On retirement in 1998, I was given almost unreserved access by Foreign Affairs and Trade to a rich archive of
09 Apr 2014
Today, trade, educational and developmental aid and maritime security are driving forces in Australian-Indian bilateral relations. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie
01 Apr 2014
The notorious telegram of 1945 which peremptorily ordered young Australian diplomat Patrick Shaw to a third post in as many
01 Apr 2014
Feared, admired and often lampooned, Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was a powerful figure in Australian political and intellectual circles from the
30 Mar 2014
As C. Raja Mohan observes in the preface to this book, India has had many ‘atomic avatars’: it has been
21 Mar 2014
Books about international relations are written from a variety of levels and perspectives: while some are narrated from the lofty
20 Mar 2014
South Asia is certainly in need of transformation. Riven by border disputes, home to two nuclear powers (with a third
10 Mar 2014
When the Grand Master states “human beings…are inherently vicious” and “power politics in Asia is as old as the first