Barack Obama’s absence from East Asia’s two seminal economic and political meetings last week has triggered another bout of declinist commentary and regional hand wringing about the loss of US power and credibility which, if accurate, has serious implications for Australia’s alliance with the US. Read more
Professor Alan Dupont, questions how geopolitical and resource trends will play out in the decades ahead and about the significance of the United State’s pivot toward Asia and how we should respond.
Professor Alan Dupont outlines the variety of security issues that climate change will present for all nations, explaining that these are problems that need to be addressed.
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Professor Alan Dupont is interviewed by Military Associate James Brown, following the launch of his paper – Inflection point: the Australian Defence Force after Afghanistan – at the Lowy Institute. Read more
An address by Professor Alan Dupont and Michael Hintze – Chair of International Security and Director, Centre for International Security Studies, to the Menzies Research Centre’s ‘Australian Security in the 21st Century’ Seminar Series in Canberra on 13 March 2008. Read more
Two incidents this week showcase the complexity of the challenges facing Israel on its northern front.
In the first, an air strike killed four members of the Islamic State-affiliated Khalid Ibn al-Walid Brigade after a patrol of the Golani reconnaissance unit in the southern Golan Heights was targeted by the organization. Israeli aircraft then targeted a facility used by the group in the Wadi Sirhan area. Read more
A briefing on Revolution and Counter-revolution in Syria with Dr. Jonathan Spyer, expert in Israeli foreign policy and the Arab-Israel conflict.
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As the pressure increases for intervention in Syria we canvass the different scenarios that might play out in the troubled nation.
We hear from Israeli academic and journalist Jonathan Spyer, who earlier this year was smuggled across the Turkish border into Syria. On horseback, with local help, he made his way to Idlib and spent a week with rebels from the Free Syrian Army. Read more
