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ItemA Global Nuclear Weapons Ban? Ready Or Not, Here It Comes(Australian Institute of International Affairs, 2017)Despite the apparent best efforts of Australia, the US and others, the second round of United Nations talks to negotiate a global nuclear weapons ban treaty is underway. With more than 130 countries participating, the proposed ban treaty may come into effect within the year.
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ItemNo Preview Available'Yemen, Australian mercenaries and the shifting sands of Australia–Middle East alliances'(Arena, 2018)It seems unimaginable that Australia could be involved in the war in Yemen, arguably the world’s worst contemporary humanitarian catastrophe, with more than 10,000 dead, one million cases of cholera, and 11 million in acute need of assistance and protection. Or that Canberra could be building towards a military alliance with a Gulf-state dictatorship with deep involvement in that war—the United Arab Emirates. Or that both Coalition and Labor governments approved—and may well have encouraged—one of Australia’s most senior, decorated soldiers to put on the uniform of that dictatorship, earning millions of dollars in the process. Or that this former Australian Defence Force (ADF) general could go on to plan, build, train and command the UAE’s elite military force, and then oversee more than three years of its operations in a war characterised by highly plausible allegations of war crimes and gross violations of human rights. Not only this but accusations by the Yemeni government of UAE seizure of territory amounting to colonisation, leading to a place of horror, where, as a UN panel of experts reported to the Security Council, ‘Yemen, as a State, has all but ceased to exist’. All this points to a new phase of Australia’s alliance-dependent, high-technology liberal militarisation, rooted, on the one hand, in the export of highly skilled military specialists as senior or command mercenaries, and on the other in the formation of close ties between second order US allies as an American force multiplier
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ItemTouring the American empire of bases with the Marines(The Asia-Pacific Journal, 2018)In the decade after the end of the Cold War, triumphalist U.S. public intellectuals, liberal and conservative alike, were trying on the mantle of ‘empire’ for size. For many at the time, while ‘US imperialism’ denoted kneejerk leftism, ‘the American empire’ might just be an appropriate acknowledgement of achievement on a global scale, an accolade about reality rather than a matter of opprobrium.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableNorth by North West Cape: Eyes on China(Nautilus Institute, 2010)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRowing between two reefs: China, the United States and containment revenant(Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableStanding upright there: the New Zealand path to a nuclear-free world(Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAnother hinge for the Pacific Pivot: Australia’s nuclear navy?(Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustralia in the Pacific pivot: national interests and the expanding “joint facilities”(Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe sick man of Asia: costs of denial(Nautilus Institute, 2013)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe US Military Presence in Australia: Asymmetrical Alliance Cooperation and its Alternatives(The Asia-Pacific Journal, 2013)