All the way with the USA in the Asian Century?
Dr Peter Dean is a Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU.Reader riposte: Rebuilding Australian diplomacy
Kate Grayson writes:Wednesday linkage: Sandy, China nukes, G20, People Daily and more
Climate change has been absent in the US presidential campaign. Will superstorm Sandy change that?DFAT should embrace the digital age
Stop procrastinating and throw away the typewriters.What can Australia learn from Afghanistan?
Thomas Lonergan served in Afghanistan with the ADF.Tuesday linkage: Gagarin, coal, vertical farms, Pol Pot, Freakonomics and more
Education is at the centre of the Asian Century White Paper. But do nations that invest more in education grow faster? It seems not.The Australian mindset in Asia
Dr John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.Priorities: Broadsheets and tabloids
Malcolm Cook's post on the near-silence from our tabloid press regarding the Asian Century White Paper put me in mind of a photo I saw recently.Asian Century White Paper: Defence WP preview?
Dr Andrew Carr is an Associate Lecturer in Strategic and Defence Studies at the ANU and a former Assistant Editor of The Interpreter.Rebuilding Australia diplomatic network...when circumstances allow
Two significant reports have been released in the past two days which, if their recommendations are followed, should have a considerable impact on the health of Australia's diplomatic network: Sunday's White Paper on AustraAsia White Paper: Process and politics
Taste the Asian Century White Paper from the perspectives of process and politics.Ediplomacy: The revolution continues
Fergus Hanson is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution.Monday linkage: China military, lying pollies, Asian century and more
Critics such as Greg Sheridan andDefence cuts based on dangerous assumptions
Jeffrey Grey is a Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (ADFA), and foundation Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society.Reader riposte: Science in the Asian century
Tony Healy writes: While I commend the PM for the ambition in her speech, I think she misses the point.Asian Century: Life in the slipstream
What is there not to like about the White Paper on the Asian Century?What the Asian Century White Paper means for our ties with Indonesia
The relationship with Indonesia is one of six the Government determines as crucial to Australia's future in the new Australia in the Asian Century White Paper.Interview: Gillard on the White Paper
Prime Minister Gillard talked with Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove yesterday after the launch of the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper.PM Australia in the Asian Century White Paper launch: First impressions
The PM has finished her speech and press conference at the Lowy Institute.Friday funny: Campaign humour
Cute little online gag here from the Democrats (thanks Stephanie).Interpreter at Asian Century WP launch
This coming Sunday afternoon at 1pm, Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be at the Lowy Institute to launch the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper.Morrison stands up for Army
The Australian labels it an 'extraordinary public intervention by a serving senior ADF officer', but the national newspaper is only partly right.India linkage: 1962 war, Gillard visit, middle class, billionares, the national ID system and more
As noted in last week's India Linkage, last Saturday marked 50 years since the start of the 1962 China-India war.A national uranium policy for Australia?
Michael Angwin is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Uranium Association. In the last week, two major policy decisions have accelerated the pace of Australian uranium policy reform.Ad campaign for the 'real Singapore'
A footnote to my musings of yesterday about favourite Southeast Asian cities.Thai-Aus defence cooperation: Where to now?
Dr John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.Thursday linkage: China, game theory, drones, Bretton Woods and more
Isidor's Fugue: a photo-heavy blog on daily life in China. (H/t Fallows.)Reader riposte: More on Goldrick-White
Markus Pfister writes:The ADF and cyber warfare
Richard Addiscott is an information security consultant with BAE Systems Stratsec. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of his employer.Movie trailer: Zero Dark Thirty
The first of half of this trailer is maddeningly obscure. If you didn't already know this was a movie about the bin Laden raid, you'd be wondering what was going on. It makes the film look a little pretentious, until you get some sense of the narrative in the second half.PNG New Voices: Right place, right time
By Annmaree O'Keeffe, Danielle Cave and Jenny Hayward-Jones, from the Lowy Institute's Melanesia program.Reader riposte: The Goldrick-White debate
Nic Stuart writes:Myanmar reforms: The record so far
Trevor Wilson is a Visiting Fellow with the Department of Political and Social Change at ANU.Malala and Pakistan missing middle
'Can Malala Bring Peace to Pakistan and Afghanistan?' asked The New Yorker earlier this month in a blog post by Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani journalClimate change linkage: UN, Maldives, Australia and finance
Christiana Figueres, Executive Director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be at the Lowy Institute tomorrowMyanmar: Time for Australian Defence Cooperation
Dr John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.Will wiping the debt slate clean for Greece save the euro?
Financial markets are beginning to feel a little more relaxed about the future of the eMonday linkage: PNG New Voices, drones, UN, Mormons, China
Theo Chapman is the Lowy Institute's assistant online editor.Remembering the India-China border war
Nitin Gokhale is Security and Strategic Affairs Editor with India's leading broadcaster NDTV.Managing strategic uncertainty
Chloe Diggins is a Research and Analysis Officer at the Australian Army's Land Warfare Studies Centre. The views expressed are her own and do not reflect those of the Australian Department of Defence or the Australian Government.Reader Riposte: Are the Nordics losing their grip?
Paul Cotton writes: It hasn't been mentioned amid all the euphoria over Australia's success in the Security Council vote, but things seem to have the habit of coming around again.
