Review
Debating the alliance
Book review: Emma Shortis, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States (Hardie Grant, 2021)
Depending on your perspective, Australia’s China debate…
Why politics and pandemics don’t mix
Book review: Michael Lewis The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021)
Way back in October 2019, before most anyone had heard of Covid-19, a group…
China debate not just a matter of hawks and doves
Book Reviews
Peter Hartcher Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future (Black Inc., 2021)David Brophy China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to…
Defending the liberal international order
Book review: G. John Ikenberry A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale University Press, 2020)
Big ideas about how the world…
An unwelcome wake up call
Australia’s chief spy-catcher revealed in March that a “nest” of foreign agents had infiltrated the community – chasing secrets, cultivating local politicians, and monitoring …
Putting the pandemic in perspective
Book Review: Fareed Zakaria, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Penguin, 2021)
Perhaps the most original contribution of Fareed Zakaria’s new book Ten Lessons for a …
Power politics lies behind how new countries are born – or not
Book review: Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle and Edward Newman (eds) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition (Routledge 2019)
At the school hall in Buka, in that heady hour after the…
America and China: Imagining the worst
Book Review: Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, 2034: A Novel of the Next World War (Penguin 2021)
The book begins with a clash in the South China Sea – an imagined conflict,…
Ordinary Nazis
Book review: Robert Gellately, Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2020)
In the end, it was all about The Idea. Thus, the…
The greening of Bill Gates
Book review: Bill Gates How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Penguin 2021)
One of the more significant aspects of Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is the simple…