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.

21 Jul 2014
This important book seeks to unravel a commercial puzzle. The reality is that the European Union (EU) and Australia have
18 Jul 2014
Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies is the latest round in a debate that can be traced back at least as
14 Jul 2014
Indian foreign policy is often described as having shed its ‘postcolonial baggage’, having had a moralistic ‘chip on its shoulder’
18 Jun 2014
In recent years, Japan appears to have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Despite Prime Minister Shinzo
10 Jun 2014
At the International Studies Association Convention in Toronto in March, Michael Haas chaired a roundtable where he presented his newest
27 May 2014
Neville Maxwell has long been known to specialists as a London Times reporter at the time of the India-China war
26 May 2014
Wellington’s alliance dispute with Washington over port access by United States vessels in the wake of New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy
22 May 2014
The approaching centenary of World War I has triggered some public questioning about the scale, character and purpose of the
22 May 2014
Even in the year of that Australia holds the presidency, few Australians are deeply familiar with the G20, how it operates
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