This episode features three great conversations. First, Brendan Nicholson speaks with Ahmed Al-Dawoody, legal adviser for Islamic law and jurisprudence at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Following that, Fergus Ryan and Elise Thomas …
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In this episode, Executive Director Peter Jennings discusses the recent ASPI report How the geopolitical partnership between China and Russia threatens the West with former opposition leader and Governor of Western Australia Kim Beazley and …
In this special episode of Policy, Guns and Money, Lisa Sharland, the head of ASPI’s international program, discusses the vital work of gender advisers in the Australian Defence Force with Commander Jen Macklin, Group Captain …
In this episode, we examine the US killing of the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, and the bushfire crisis affecting large parts of Australia. First up, ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings …
In this episode, Mali Walker interviews Oriana Skylar Mastro, assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, about her most recent book, The costs of conversation: obstacles …
In this episode, Strategist editor Jack Norton covers this year’s Beersheba Dialogue, the annual conference between ASPI and the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, named after the World War I battle. He speaks to former …
In this special episode, ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings and Defence, Strategy and National Security Director Michael Shoebridge discuss the unprecedented leak of hundreds of pages of internal Chinese government documents. The trove of information …
In this episode, Andrew Davies talks with Marcus Hellyer on the costs of Australia’s future submarine project and they discuss the debate around an Australian long-range strike capability. Mali Walker talks to the Perth USAsia …
Our two grumpy defence strategists, Michael Shoebridge and Marcus Hellyer, discuss the US withdrawal from Syria, debate Vladimir Putin’s role, and grapple with the complex issue of returning Australian foreign fighters. Continuing our coverage of …
In this episode, Michael Shoebridge offers his thoughts on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s trip to the United States and the impact it may have had on the Australia–China relationship. Lisa Sharland and Sarah O’Connor unpack …
In this episode, Genevieve Feely chats with Tess Newton Cain to unravel the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu. Non-resident ASPI fellow Sofia Patel returns to Australia to discuss gender and counterterrorism, PhD life, and …
In this episode, ASPI’s Michael Shoebridge and Marcus Hellyer discuss the pro-democracy protests rocking Hong Kong and the likelihood of a violent intervention from Beijing. Later on in the podcast, Renee Jones talks to Canadian …