Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.  

James Lewis is Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS, Washington, DC. This is the fourth of a five-part series on Asia in the age of cyber threats.

Erin Hurley has nearly ten years of experience working in US politics in New York and Washington DC, and served as a legislative affairs officer within the US Department of Defense.

Last week, former Soviet air defence commander Stanislav Petrov was awarded the Dresden Prize for preventing a nuclear war.

Ballooning American think-tank salaries tell you something about think-tank political influence. (Thanks Rodger and David.)

Last night I was fortunate enough to join an Amnesty International panel discussing the future of women's rights in Afghanistan.

Mixed messages from Xi Jinping: reformist one day, disciplinarian the next. (Thanks Michael.)

Gregory MacCallion, a PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations, Australian National University, has thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty (WARNING: spoilers follow, below the fold):

 

Morris Jones is an Australian space analyst.

Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre. 

Joel Negin worked on development issues in Africa and is now senior lecturer in international health at the University of Sydney.

A new Hans Rosling presentation is always worth featuring on The Interpreter.

Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.

One thing every thinking person should have learnt from the Iraq intelligence debacle was to treat claims of state support for external armed groups with caution (see Wikipedia for a run-down of de

With a G20 leaders' meeting happening in Russia this weekend, it's an opportune time to catch up with the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre Director, Mike Callaghan.  

A Chinese media take on the latest North Korean test. (Thanks Malcolm.)

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

Crispin Rovere previously undertook academic research at the Vatican on Australia's political relations with the Holy See, and is now a PhD candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.

John Funston is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU. Michael Montesano is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Barry Wain, as several tributes have noted, was the doyen of Australian journalists in Asia.

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