Chris Williams writes:

Paul Madden is the British High Commissioner to Australia.

 

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Liam Hanlon is a political analyst at Cascade Asia Advisors, a research firm focused on Southeast Asia.

Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate.

As we draw our Iraq debate to a close, thoughts from Alison Broinowski on Michael Green's two-parter below.

I've noted before in this space my admiration for Shaun Micallef, so when he got his own Colbert-like vehicle on the ABC last year, I was excited. Series 1 of Mad As Hell turned

When Prime Minister Gillard met IMF Managing Director Lagarde at the Bo'ao Conference last week, her opening gambit was to praise the IMF for sorting out the Cyprus problem.

Joel Wing-Lun is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.

Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre. His op-ed o

I'm in the Middle East doing research for a forthcoming paper on Syria that I'm writing with my colleague Anthony Bubalo. My early impression is that there appears to be a complete absence of rational (let alone unified) policy views about what anybody wants or believes will be the case 'the day

Below, Mona Scheuermann responds to Michael Ware. But first, Ashley Murtha:

Taiwan and China continue to enhance their presence in the disputed waters of the South China Se

Michael Green served on the US National Security Council staff from 2001-2005 and is now Senior Vice President for Asia at CSIS and a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute.

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard achieved a diplomatic breakthrough in Beijing today when she and China's Premier Li Keqiang agreed that Australia and China will forge a strategic partnership. There will be an official announcement from Gillard and Premier Li in the next few hours.

Professor Don Markwell is Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre, and was formerly Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford.

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.

Dr Stephan Fruehling is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Program, ANU.

Michael O'Hanlon is coauthor with Kenneth Lieberthal and Martin Indyk of Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy, and of a new book on the US defense budget,

Below, a response from Duncan Graham to Stephen Grenville's column of last Wednesday. But first, Dr Rick Boven writes:

Dirk van der Kley is Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.