Publications
Marawi and after: how Australia can help
Author(s): Blaxland, J, Carroll, J, Carr, A, Harris, MDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Key points: The seizure of Marawi city by Daesh-linked militants is a game-changer for Southeast Asia, and presents a threat to all countries of the region. Limiting the movement of money, technology, recruits and planning support to extremist groups in the southern Philippines will be crucial to...
The threat to the global economic and financial order: protecting Australia’s interests
Author(s): Luckham, B.Date of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Key Points The international economic order reflects the balance of strategic power. The challenge to the post-1945 global economic and financial order will persist as it reflects long-standing trends: perceptions of unequal economic opportunity in developed economies; the increasing economic...
Federating security
Author(s): Dr Anthony BerginDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Key points: National security has too often been run as a ‘top-down’ policy, with a tendency towards a ‘Canberra knows best’ approach. The states and territories contribute many of the powers and capabilities needed to support our overall effort in dealing with a wide range of national security...
Exploring Cyber Security Policy Options in Australia
Author(s): Igor Mikolic-Torreira, Don Snyder, Michelle Price, David Shlapak, Sina Beaghley, Megan Bishop, Sarah Harting, Jenny Oberholtzer, Stacie Pettyjohn, Cortney Weinbaum, and Emma WestermanDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Key findings An interdisciplinary exercise generated three overarching policy recommendations to improve cyber security in Australia: Create and enforce technology security standards, craft international agreements to address cyber security challenges, and improve risk awareness to keep users safe...
Imagining an Indian National Security Strategy: the sum of its parts
Author(s): Medcalf, RDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
India’s power and interests continue to grow in the Indo-Pacific region and globally, yet its national security policymaking approaches have not kept pace. These may have been barely adequate for India’s twentieth-century experience as a regional power tending towards strategic restraint, but...
The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s New Grand Strategy?
Author(s): Associate Professor Michael ClarkeDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
The ambitious Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) has sparked a variety of reactions among governments throughout the regions encompassed by the initiative and by external commentators and analysts. In the main, there have been three major interpretations of BRI. The first view holds that BRI is...
“That is what the terrorists want”: Media as amplifier or disrupter of violent extremist propaganda
Author(s): Ingram, H.Date of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
Fidelity to the principles of quality journalism – critical, evidence-based, assertive, multiple source verified reporting – is more than sufficient to act as a disrupter of violent extremist propaganda. That is not the role of journalism, it is simply the likely product of quality journalism.
Saving the South China Sea fishery: time to internationalise
Author(s): Tsirbas, M.Date of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Key points: Twelve per cent of the global fish catch comes from the South China Sea, but that fishery is headed for collapse. This will have important national security implications for regional countries and Australia. Ensuing security tensions will be exacerbated by fishing nationalism....
Exploring the Role of Instructional Material in AQAP’s Inspire and ISIS’ Rumiyah
Author(s): Ingram, H. Reed, A.Date of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
In recent years Europe has faced an increasing wave of so-called ‘lone actor’ attacks committed by jihadist (or jihadist-inspired) terrorists. This trend has continued in 2017. For example, the attacks in London and Stockholm, which were simple but devastating in their methodology. Both attacks...
China’s economic leverage: perception and reality
Author(s): Edited by Medcalf, RDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Policy
Perceptions of Australia’s vulnerability to Chinese economic pressure are exaggerated. Some individual sectors are more vulnerable than others but this does not extend to the economy as a whole. Economic pressure that would have the biggest impact on Australia, notably through the iron ore trade,...
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