Publications
Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Author(s): Enemark, CDate of publication: 2012
Publication type: Research
The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate. The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so...
ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia
Author(s): Emmers, R. Contributors: Roberts, C.Date of publication: 2012
Publication type: Research
This book examines the evolving multilateral security arrangements in East Asia, with a focus on the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It explores the function and relevance of ASEAN in East Asia’s emerging institutional security landscape. These issues have direct...
Drones over Pakistan: Secrecy, Ethics, and Counterinsurgency
Author(s): Enemark, CDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
The US government appears to be using drones to launch air strikes inside Pakistan. This article details uncertainties regarding the ethical soundness of these strikes and highlights the consequent need for greater official transparency. Available evidence is assessed in the light of traditional...
Collaborative Leadership within the National Security Community
Author(s): Coates, EDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
This literature review accompanies Occasional Paper 1. It examines the meaning of collaborative leadership from a number of different perspectives, and includes short cases to illustrate this concept from the viewpoint of national security organisations.
An idea in good currency: collaborative leadership in the national security community
Author(s): Shanahan RDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
NSC Occasional Paper No 1 addressed the nature, importance and shared understanding of collaborative leadership in Australia’s national security community. The concept of collaborative leadership has emerged as potentially a new method of operating within Australia’s national security community,...
Farewell to WMD: The Language and Science of Mass Destruction
Author(s): Enemark, CDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
This article critically assesses the ongoing use of the term ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) in policy and academic discourse. Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are commonly lumped together as WMD, but such conflation is misleading from a technological viewpoint and renders the term...
Region and Identity: The Many Faces of Southeast Asia
Author(s): Roberts, CDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
This article examines the origins of Southeast Asia as a region, including the extent to which regularized interstate relations existed throughout the region prior to World War II. In addition, the article examines the origins of Southeast Asia’s recognition as a region together with notions of...
The Western powers and the development of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia: the international dimension, 1945–67
Author(s): Thompson, SDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
The creation of formal regional cooperation in Southeast Asia is generally attributed to initiatives that came from countries in the region. In particular, the creation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was a direct result of the Malaysian–Indonesian talks that ended...
Security Challenges , Changing Myanmar: International Diplomacy and the Futility of Isolation
Author(s): Roberts, CDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
This article examines the evolution of foreign relations with Myanmar. Due to increased trade with Myanmar and a rise in its strategic importance for countries such as China and India, attempts to enforce change through isolation have become increasingly futile. Despite...
Consolidating the Foundations of its Future?
Author(s): Roberts, CDate of publication: 2011
Publication type: Research
Political stability in Brunei Darussalam — the abode of peace — is built on oil wealth and Brunei’s citizens subsequently enjoy some of the best standards of living in Asia. This fortuitous state of affairs is reinforced by a small population of just 402,000 — two thirds of whom are ethnic Malays....
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