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Turkey’s dam-building program could generate fresh conflict in the Middle East
5 Nov 2019 | Connor Dilleen

Countries across the Middle East are facing a bleak future of declining rainfall, diminishing surface- and groundwater supplies, and increasing desertification. Since 1998, the region has faced the worst drought conditions in 900 years; it …

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  • Middle East
  • Syria
  • Turkey
  • dam
  • water security
The five-domains update
5 Nov 2019 | Sunny Cao, Sarah O’Connor and James Rickard

Sea state Australia and South Korea have held their annual joint naval exercise. Code-named ‘Haedori-Wallaby’, the drills included joint manoeuvres and firing exercises, and involved six ships, six aircraft and a submarine on the Korean …

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  • F-35
  • NASA
  • disinformation
  • naval exercise
Britain’s post-Brexit choices
5 Nov 2019 | Ngaire Woods

Huge amounts of time, effort and frustration have gone into negotiating the terms of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. And with the UK set to hold a crucial parliamentary election on 12 …

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  • Brexit
  • EU
  • United States
  • regulatory frameworks
  • trade
The very hungry future submarine
5 Nov 2019 | Andrew Davies and Marcus Hellyer

We’ve known for a while that SEA 1000, the Defence Department’s future submarine program, is going to cost a lot of money—we just haven’t known exactly how much. But as time moves on and Defence …

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  • Attack class
  • Collins class
  • future submarine project
Cybersecurity: people are not the problem
4 Nov 2019 | Lesley Seebeck

Those of us older than a certain age will recall an excellent British television series, Yes, Minister, and its successor, Yes, Prime Minister: they were required viewing for young and enthusiastic public servants in Canberra. …

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  • cybersecurity
  • democracy
  • technology
  • telecommunications
The ‘militarisation’ of Australia’s police: another view
4 Nov 2019 | Vernon White

Having read the article last month by Antony Funnell for ‘Future Tense’ and published on ABC News Online, I felt there was a need to respond. The article specifically targets the equipment being used by …

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  • Australia
  • police
  • weapons
The lost promise of 1989
4 Nov 2019 | Mark Leonard

After the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989, many dreamed of building a united and free continent with the European Union at its core. But 30 years later, Europeans have awoken to a new …

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  • Europe
  • immigration
  • populism
  • racism
Whispering to the Asia–Pacific
4 Nov 2019 | Graeme Dobell

Australia gropes and stutters towards a renewed embrace of international broadcasting—the vital need to ‘speak for ourselves’ in the Asia–Pacific. The latest lurch towards fresh understanding is the silent release of the review of Australia’s …

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  • ABC
  • Asia–Pacific
  • Australia
  • broadcasting
  • media
  • soft power
ASPI suggests
1 Nov 2019 | James Brorson, Aakriti Bachhawat and Malcolm Davis

The world The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is likely to take centre stage at the ASEAN+ leaders’ summit underway in Bangkok today, in which leaders from the 10 ASEAN member states and eight other countries, …

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  • ASEAN
  • China
  • India
  • Islamic State
  • space
The spirit of 2019
1 Nov 2019 | Dominique Moisi

As in 1848, 1968, 1989, and 2010–2012, a wave of popular protests has taken the world by surprise. Ongoing mass revolts—in Beirut, Santiago, Hong Kong, Algiers, Baghdad and other cities—are gaining strength and wrongfooting governments. …

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  • Hong Kong
  • Middle East
  • South America
  • US foreign policy
Australia’s 2020 cybersecurity strategy: defining the mission
1 Nov 2019 | Gai Brodtmann

Three summers ago, I was walking with my husband along a South Coast beach when we noticed a woman diving into the surf with her two teenage children. From where we stood, it was obvious …

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  • Australia
  • accountability
  • cybersecurity
  • policymaking
Forward-based enablers for Australia’s submarines: what about leveraging our Indian Ocean territories?
1 Nov 2019 | Euan Graham

Luke Gosling’s recent Strategist post, mooting Darwin as a forward operating location for Australia’s submarines, sparked a few thoughts. First and foremost, it is refreshing to see Australian MPs sticking their necks out, thinking strategically …

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  • Attack class
  • Australian Defence Force
  • Indian Ocean
  • submarines
A quest for global dominance: China’s appetite for rare earths
31 Oct 2019 | David Uren

China’s dominance of the rare-earths industry is the result of a 40-year campaign by the Chinese state that has given it a market share of between 80% and 90% of the mining, processing and manufacturing …

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  • Australia
  • China
  • rare-earth elements
  • trade
National security wrap
31 Oct 2019 | Sunny Cao, Sarah O’Connor and James Rickard

The beat Victoria Police introduces ‘hostile vehicle’ policy Victoria Police has provided officers with a set of guidelines outlining their powers and responsibilities in the event of a car attack. The new ‘hostile vehicle’ policy …

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  • border security
  • bushfires
  • counterterrorism
  • policing
Being positively positive about Australia–China relations
31 Oct 2019 | Andrew Forrest

‘Being positive where you can’ is number 11 on Australian journalist Greg Sheridan’s generally helpful list of 15 rules for politicians to keep in mind when engaging with China. Remembering that maintaining a ‘a good …

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  • Australia–China relations
  • Belt and Road Initiative
  • foreign policy
Indonesia’s defence and foreign policy and Widodo’s new-look cabinet
31 Oct 2019 | Natalie Sambhi

Last week, newly inaugurated Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo introduced one of his new ministers with these words: ‘I believe I don’t have to tell him about his job—he knows more than I do.’ Until …

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  • Australia
  • Indonesia
  • Prabowo Subianto
  • defence policy
Sticking to our guns: the story of the Austeyr rifle
31 Oct 2019 | Chris Masters

In ‘Sticking to our guns: A troubled past produces a superb weapon’, the latest volume in ASPI’s series of case studies in defence projects, published today, Chris Masters delivers a cracking read about the ‘funny …

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  • Austeyr
  • Australian Army
  • weapons
Projecting power with the F-35 (part 5): Can a B set you free?
30 Oct 2019 | Marcus Hellyer

In part 4 of this series, I looked at how deploying from offshore airbases would allow the F-35A to operate relatively far away from Australia in areas that are strategically important to us. However, this …

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  • Australian Defence Force
  • F-35B
Widodo’s big political gamble
30 Oct 2019 | Donald Greenlees

Joko Widodo has taken a big gamble that he can run a more effective second-term administration by bringing in his strongest opponent. His political strategy, and possibly the success of his administration, will be defined …

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  • Indonesia
  • Joko Widodo
  • Prabowo Subianto
  • TNI
  • politics
Terrorism landscape set to shift in the wake of al-Baghdadi’s death
30 Oct 2019 | Isaac Kfir

On 27 October, President Donald Trump announced that on the previous night US special forces had raided a compound in Barisha, Idlib Province, Syria. In the house was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who detonated a suicide …

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  • Islamic State
  • al-Qaeda
  • jihadism
  • terrorism
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