China’s top spy and Politburo member, Meng Jianzhu, made a highly unusual four-day visit to the US in early September where he forged an agreement between China and the US to cooperate more deeply on …
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As states become less inhibited about utilising cyber as a component of state power, policymakers will be increasingly challenged to develop proportionate responses to disruptive or destructive attacks. Already, there’s been significant pressure to ‘do …
The plethora of commentary on parliamentarians’ entitlements has pointed to systemic failure (a lack of clear guidance and rules) as a more fundamental cause of the problem than simple venality and carelessness on the part …
The title of this post sounds outrageous. How can there be any shortcomings of the next Defence White Paper (DWP) when it’s yet to be written? But the next DWP won’t emerge from thin air—it’ll …
This post is adapted from the authors’ paper Australian defence: challenges for the new government, published in the latest edition of Security Challenges. There’s a set of enduring policy principles that have guided the defence …