Luke Maynard writes:

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

Satish Chand is a Professor in the School of Business, University of New South Wales.

Why is female sexuality at the heart of some of our most significant global conflicts?

Thanks to the folk at the Asia New Zealand Foundation for alerting me to this world exclusive from Beer & Brewer Magazine.

A leaked US State Department cable says Syria used chemical weapons against its own people last month.

Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.

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

 

From Fred Kaplan's latest column:

It was not pre-ordained that the economies of Europe, the US, and the UK would perform as poorly as it they have over the past two years.

Fiji's military leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has done it again. He surprised everyone last year by opening up what appeared to be a genuine process of consultation on a new Fiji constitution and engaging Professor Yash Ghai, one of the world's foremost constitutional experts, to Chair the

Simon Palombi is a Research Associate at the Lowy Institute.

Derek Woolner is a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.

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

This morning's announcement of Chuck Hagel as President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense elicited predictable outrage over Hagel's judgment on Israel.

Colleague Milton Osborne tells me The Irrawaddy is now on sale in Burma. Here's a recent piece surveying China's dam building on the Mekong and beyond.