Setting a high bar down under: An American perspective on Australia’s White Paper

By and | February 29, 2016 | Categories: Australia
The Australian Defence White Paper was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. From an American perspective, the White Paper is a carefully crafted document that will leave many in Washington both pleased with and envious of Canberra’s strategic conceptualisation and connection of ends and means. The White Paper notes that ‘a […]

The Temperature in Canberra as the South China Sea Boils

By | June 4, 2015 | Categories: Australia, International Law, Shangri La Dialogue, South China Sea
By various accounts, policy is firming up in Australia on what to do about the South China Sea – specifically, whether Canberra should take an unambiguous stand on the destabilising impact of China’s island-building activities. Australian policymakers are not fooled by the surface calm with which discussions concluded at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. […]