Asia
ASEAN's coming-of-age
Katherine Ellena is a Research Associate with the US Naval Postgraduate School and a former New Zealand diplomat. The views expressed here are hers alone.
One of my early…
Reader ripostes: Iraq, 10 years on
Two reader responses to Sam Roggeveen's call for retrospectives on the Iraq war. Below, Daniel Woker. But first, Kien Choong:
From memory, I was somewhat sympathetic to the war…
India links: David Cameron, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Uttar Pradesh and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.
Should David Cameron…
Reader riposte: TNI's new generation
Edmund McWilliams, a retired US Foreign Service Officer, writes:
Gary Hogan's March 6 article, A promising New Generation of TNI leaders, presents a weak case for its essential…
Iraq War: It's been almost 10 years
Blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan is marking the upcoming tenth anniversary of the Iraq War by reproducing some of his stridently pro-war blog posts of the time. Those of you…
Asia: Big issues to be settled by the few
Sam is quite right to hear echoes of Hedley Bull in Peter Varghese's point about the role of rules and institutions in managing strategic relations. This does indeed make Varghese…
A promising new generation of TNI leaders
Gary Hogan was the first foreigner to graduate from Indonesia's Institute of National Governance (Lemhannas) and was Australia's Defence Attaché to Indonesia from 2009 to 2012…
Joe Lieberman at the Lowy Institute
The Lowy Institute was honoured to host former US Senator and vice-presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman during his visit to Australia.
Following a boardroom lunch with…
Realism with a Hedley Bull twist
Prompted by Hugh White's latest Fairfax op-ed, I read DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese's recent AsiaLink speech today.
There's a lot to think about in the speech, not least the fact…
Reader riposte: Papua's rebels
George Darroch, who wrote his MPhil thesis on foreign support for the Free Papua Movement at the ANU, writes:
Your reader, Andrew Johnson, makes no attempt to address the…