Asia and Pacific

Reader ripostes: TNI and Bob Carr
Below, a comment from Jorge Bechara on Rodger Shanahan's Bob Carr's Selective Indignation. But first, Andrew Johnson: I appreciate that Gary Hogan has expanded on his…
Cambodia: Disputes, delays and death
Hard on the heels of fresh evidence of disputes about the judicial reach of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia), has come the news of…
Burma's fractious polity: The price of democracy?
Andrew Selth is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. The Rangoon street-scene photos below the fold are by the author. It has often been said that one of the…
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 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…
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…