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The International Security Program

The International Security Program

The International Security Program looks at strategic dynamics and security risks globally, with an emphasis on Australia's region of Indo-Pacific Asia. Its research spans strategic competition and the risks of conflict in Asia, security implications of the rise of China and India, maritime security, nuclear arms control, Australian defence policy and the changing character of conflict. The Program draws on a network of experts in Australia, Asia and globally, and is supported by diverse funding sources including grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. It convenes international policy dialogues such as the 2017 Australia-ROK Emerging Leaders International Security Forum and has a record of producing leading-edge, influential reports.

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The Falklands Play
Fairfax websites have been spruiking this dramatic account of British politics leading up to the Falklands War since the weekend. You can watch it in one hit (with ads) here, but…
DPRK: Getting closer all the time...
Earlier this week Jeffrey Choi wrote on this blog that: North Korea's missile and nuclear technologies appear more advanced and sophisticated than previously thought and it is…
Reader ripostes: Howard, Ware and Iraq
Below, Mona Scheuermann responds to Michael Ware. But first, Ashley Murtha: Some important qualifications should be made regarding Sam Roggeveen's mention of Canada as a…
A shift in China's North Korea policy?
Jeffrey Choi is a PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations at ANU and an Endeavour Award Scholar. He previously served as an officer in the South Korean…
More on the avoidable Iraq insurgency
Michael Ware was a war correspondent for TIME Magazine and CNN. He spent six years in Iraq. fantasy – (noun) the faculty or activity of imagining things, esp things that are…
Further DPRK tests a show of weakness
If North Korea soon tests another missile or even, as some reports suggest, a fourth nuclear device, it will be a sign of regime weakness and clumsiness, not strength and cunning…
DPRK: How effective are US missile defences?
Dr Stephan Fruehling is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Program, ANU. Once again, North Korea's missile program has led the US to make major investments…
Marketing strategy behind posing
Commentary
Marketing strategy behind posing
James Brown, Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute, writes in The Sydney Morning Herald on the successful brand of the Kim family dynasty in North Korea.James Brown
Kim Jong-un dances to dangerous tune
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Kim Jong-un dances to dangerous tune
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Military Fellow James Brown writes that while Kim Jong-un threatens a nuclear attack on US cities, North Korea's elite can't…
Indonesian ties much tighter
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Indonesian ties much tighter
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Alan Dupont, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute, comments on the remarkable recovery in Australia's strategic relationship…