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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 Iraq insurgency: A response to Michael Ware
Derek Woolner is a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre ANU. Fascinating as Michael Ware's post is, it remains a fantasy. Its narrow focus on the Sunni…
Reader ripostes: Zombie institutions and Iraq
Below, Iraq commentary from Alison Broinowski and Richard Broinowski. But first, Tony Grey responds to Malcolm Cook's post on Zombie-like international institutions: According…
What I said, and did not say, about Iraq violence
Major Gen (Retd) Jim Molan is author of Running the War in Iraq. Rodger Shanahan says he was left scratching his head over my pronouncements about the Iraq war. He should not…
We went to Iraq for ANZUS
The views expressed here are the author's own and do not reflect those of the Department of Defence or the Australian Government. The 10th anniversary of the US-led war with Iraq…
Straightening the Straits
Commentary
Straightening the Straits
In this article in Outlook India, Rory Medcalf reviews Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific by C. Raja Mohan.Rory Medcalf
Reader riposte: Iraq casualties reconsidered
US Army Major Matthew Cavanaugh is a course director and instructor at the US Military Academy at West Point: Just thought I would attempt a small contribution to your ongoing…
What if the Iraq war never happened?
Michael Ware was a war correspondent for TIME Magazine and CNN. He spent six years in Iraq. Not the invasion, that's something else. That was three weeks of aggressive warfare…
When India (almost) invaded Mauritius
Commentary
When India (almost) invaded Mauritius
In this article on The Diplomat's Flashpoints blog, Rory Medcalf looks at what the 1983 Operation Lal Dora may reveal about the future of Indian assertiveness in the Indian…
The decline of consent in international law
Marie-Eve Loiselle is a member of the Security Council Analysis Network, a research group focused on the work of the UN Security Council during the period of Australia's…
An Asian security standoff
Journal Articles
An Asian security standoff
Lowy Institute Non-resident Senior Fellow Alan Dupont has published an article in the May-June 2012 issue of The National Interest on how the dissolution of the Old Order in East…