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Japanese collective self-defence: Abe's changes won't help

Clearly Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has deep personal and political motives for wanting to change Japan's strategic posture, 'escape from the postwar regime' and make…

Australia's economic growth secret: It's not mining, and it's not micro reform...

Reading John Edwards Beyond the Boom, I am struck by how easy it is to take the same facts, and treat them as good or bad news. The factual core of Edwards' argument is that the…

Pacific island links: O'Neill, PNG parliament online, Wan Smol Bag, Russia in Fiji and more

Keep up with what's happening in the Pacific island region with our round-up of news, commentary & analysis: The parliament of PNG has a new website. It allows you to find out…

Australians shifting on climate change

A month ago my colleague John Connor wrote an op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald welcoming the fact that for the first time in years, climate change was a major story coming out…

Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi and the constitution

Myanmar's Constitutional Amendment Implementation Committee recently voted down a bid to change Article 59(f) of Myanmar's 2008 Constitution, which prevents Aung San Suu Kyi …

Indo-Pacific security links: Collective self-defence, South China Sea, Vietnam protests and more

The Indo-Pacific is a strategic system encompassing the Indian and Pacific oceans, reflecting the expanding interests and reach of China and India as well as the enduring role of…

Young Australians talk about the value of democracy

[vimeo:85892717] Since Fergus Hanson first polled Australians on the value of democracy in the 2012 Lowy Institute Poll, our findings about how Australians, particularly young…

Can women lead? Australians think so

Comments by Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard this week have invigorated the debate on women and leadership. Clinton's recently released book Hard Choices made news in Australia…

China links: Golf, investment, corruption, SCO, non-interference and more

David Shambaugh: The belief that China is a global power is widespread, understandable and wrong. Russian and Chinese academics and officials yet again talk past one another at…

Linking corruption, social unrest and international security

We're a little late on this one, but a recent Carnegie Endowment paper on the links between corruption, social unrest and international instability is worth highlighting: …

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