What Can Be Done in Response to the Crisis in Syria?
The best response to the crisis in Syria is the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to oversee an inclusive political process for a new Syrian constitution.
Climate Change and the Military
While knowledge about the impact of climate change on the role of militaries is scant, planning for a future with climate change has begun.
Coming up for Air: Making Sense of the Australian ‘Future Submarines’ Debate
The Australian government will decide on a new submarine programme before mid-2012, its largest ever defence procurement. The debate is part of the discourse about China’s rise. For the first time, Australia’s major trading partner is not a member of the Western alliance.
Syrians Are Paying the Price of NATO Excesses in Libya
The China–Russia veto does not prove the irrelevance of the UN Security Council. Rather, it proves that the politics of the Security Council must be got right before an R2P military intervention; and the political equilibrium should be maintained during the operation.
Why Australia Fears China’s Rise: The Growing War Consensus
Inter-state war is threatening to make a dangerous come-back. But the good news is that great power war can be prevented.
Chinese Soft Power Starts at Home
Many Western analysts miss the fact that Chinese soft power is not merely a tool for building international relations. Just as important, its deployment is critical at home within the country as well as abroad. These differences are significant in practice, because they reflect the underlying differences in motivation and in stages of development.
China’s Relations with Africa and the American Context
Africa is an emerging strategic partner of China. As a result, some over-excited analysts talk of a major competition between China and the United States in Africa.
Review – Managing the China Challenge
China’s rapid economic growth continues apace presenting multi-national corporations with new opportunities. Kenneth G. Lieberthal explores the strategies MNCs need to employ to succeed in business in China and the importance of remaining sensitive to the state’s political concerns.
Four Reasons Not to Fear Chinese Intelligence
Overreaction in the West and the promotion of China as the next scary thing may seem like a relatively low risk option now that the end of the global war on terror is threatening defense/intelligence budgets and prestige. How China is integrated into the greater world system will define the coming century like no other single issue.
Review – China: The Pessoptimist Nation
Pessoptimist, coined to describe the combination of positive and negative feelings China has about itself and others, is an apt neologism to describe China’s bipolar sense of national identity, formed from a confused superiority and inferiorly complex that has emerged from its recent economic growth and historical humiliation.
