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Did Macbeth have PTSD? Back in the capital, my first pick is a provocative take by sociology professor Anthony King on ...
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This week’s most talked about security development has been the freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) conducted by the USS Lassen ...
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Welcome back to ASPI Suggests after a week in which we paused to remember those who died or suffered for ...
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Last Friday’s terrorist attacks in the City of Light made headlines across the world this week, from the unfolding of ...
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The late edition of ASPI Suggests kicks off with US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s announcement on Thursday that all combat roles were now ...
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Although it took place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars has again been making ...
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It’s all happening over in Davos, Switzerland, as the World Economic Forum hosts its 2016 Annual Meeting. As The Economist ...
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My final Suggests! Keep reading for this week’s best reports, podcasts, videos and more. Top of today’s list is the ...
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Monday’s Iowa caucuses meant no shortage of analysis for US politics wonks this week. For some choicer pieces, check out Stephen ...
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Everyone’s favourite hermit kingdom has done much to excite and exercise the world of late, first with last weekend’s rocket ...
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Ready for the weekend? We’ve got your good reads and podcasts covered. Southeast Asia’s big news this week was the death ...
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If you’re looking to get your defence and national security fix over the Easter long weekend, look no further! Long-read, ...
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For the best reading picks, podcasts and news in international security and defence, here’s ASPI Suggests. Kicking off today is the ...
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To get you across the week’s big stories in security and defence, here’s ASPI Suggests with new reports, videos and ...
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For all your international security and defence reading, look no further than ASPI Suggests! Tomorrow’s ANZAC Day (25 April) will mark the ...
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This week saw the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Four decades later, how ...
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To help you delve deeper into the world of strategy and international security, here are this week’s reading picks and podcasts. ...
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If you missed last night’s ASPI event ‘Australia and Indonesia: getting back on track’, Felicity Norman has a cracking rundown of the ...
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Headlining today’s wrap-up are three must-read pieces on Australia’s strategic choices and China. In the first, Bonnie Glaser (who’s visiting ...
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The IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore is the place to be this weekend. The stage is set for a fiery (cross) dialogue ...
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With the second G7 kicking off next Monday, and plenty of foreign and security policy issues set to be on ...
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Welcome back to another round-up of interesting things to read, listen and watch from the world of defence and security. ...
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Kicking off today’s round-up is an infographic on the world’s major oil trade flows. No surprises, the Middle East tops ...
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Welcome back, readers! ASPI has just wrapped up its Army Future Force Structure Options Conference 2015. Catch up on the ...
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This week’s best reads, podcasts and videos starting in 3, 2 … Where did the idea for the Japanese submarine option ...
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Headlining today are details about the nuclear deal signed with Iran. For a thorough overview, listen to CSIS Senior Fellow ...
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Headlining today is Mullah Omar’s death in 2013—what does it mean? Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Omar’s deputy, has now ascended to ...
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Meet the first women to pass the US Army’s gruelling Ranger School: Captain Kristen Griest and 1st Lieutenant Shaye Haver. Later ...
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All eyes have been on Beijing this week as signs of a slowdown in the Chinese economy have been felt ...
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Australia’s Defence Minster Kevin Andrews was in India this week, where he met with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar as ...
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Today marks the 14th anniversary of the devastating attacks that rocked the United States, and raised public consciousness of the ...
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Wednesday brought confirmation that the RAAF had carried out its first successful airstrikes in eastern Syria. While it was only ...
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The red carpet was rolled out in Washington DC this week as some A-list visitors hit the town. On Thursday, ...
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It hasn’t been a great week for the US in the Middle East. Russia began a controversial campaign of airstrikes ...
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The US-led airstrike on a Médecins sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 12 MSF workers and 10 patients, ...
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While the memory of Super Tuesday is bound to fade as the campaigns roll on across the US, it’s providing ample ...
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Marking International Women’s Day this week The Economist released their annual glass-ceiling index, which seeks to show where women have the ...
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After romping in the Florida primary on Tuesday, critics and analysts are starting to take seriously the once seemingly slim chance of The Donald taking the Oval Office. The Economist’s Global...
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This week marked an exciting and debate-worthy turning point in the relationship between the United States and Cuba, as Barack Obama became the first US president to visit the island nationsince Calvin...
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Head honchos from 50 nations gathered in Washington DC this week for the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit, a biennial gathering launched by President Barack Obama after he set out his vision...
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Welcome back for another week, this time as ASPI wraps up what has been an action-packed and star-studded program at our Defence White Paper conference. If you haven’t been streaming online or...
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In the spirit of President Frank Underwood, whelcome back to another wheek of ASPI suggests. The Pulitzer Committee did us a great service this week in doling out the 2016 prizes. Some prime picks...
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Monday was a public holiday across the country, providing Australians with some solemn space to reflect and give thanks for the contributions and sacrifices made by our defence force personnel. Lest we...
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Welcome back, comrades. A fresh batch of new research has been served up in the past week. In time for Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration in Taipei, the Center for a New American Security has released a ...
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Barack Obama will today make history as the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima. The Atlantic has two photo essays: one looking at the modern city of Hiroshima and A-bomb survivors today;...
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It has been an exciting week across Asia, Europe and the US, kicking off with the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea’s award on the Philippines v China case. There’s been no shortage ...
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It was the week that US politics junkies had hung out for—the one where the Republican National Convention circus rolled up to Cleveland for the coronation of Donald J. Trump. While The Donald was...
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It was a good week for women in Japan, with the country’s first female Defence Minister (2007), Yuriko Koike, breaking through another glass ceiling to become the first female governor of Tokyo—despite...
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Clinton and Trump went toe-to-toe this week for the first Presidential debate. 30 minutes in, it looked like Trump was pulling off ‘The Haranguing at Hofstra’, but Clinton soon stepped forward to slay...
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Welcome back. Last week it was Ivanka as seat warmer, and this week it was Donald Jr’s time to shine. (Sasha and Malia never got this much attention …) We now know that there was ...
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