North Korea announced that following its successful satellite rocket launch in December 2012, it plans to conduct a nuclear test in the near future. CSIS’s Korea Chair Victor Cha has written about this at length, anticipating a provocation in the…
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The Leaderboard: Peter Slipper
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Who is he? The Honourable Peter Slipper is an independent member of Australia’s House of Representatives for Fisher, Queensland. He was formerly a member of the Liberal party and Speaker of the House. Before entering politics, Slipper graduated from the…
Reluctant Realists
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By Malcolm Cook and Andrew Shearer Ideological supporters of Julia Gillard, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of Japan must be ruing what has happened to their supposedly progressive leaders. Supporters of John Howard, George W. Bush and Junichiro Koizumi…
U.S. Marines to Darwin, Australia: Evolution of an Idea
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By Richard W. Teare The agreement announced this week by President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard under which 250 U.S. Marines – and eventually, 2,500 – will rotate through Australia’s Northern Territory has been a long time coming.…
Eagle Down Under: The Impact of U.S. Presidential Visits on Australian Elections
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By Richard W. Teare Australian prime minister Julia Gillard will get a bump in popularity and political standing from the two-day visit by President Barack Obama this week, which is being described in the Australian media as “Obama mania” and…
Australian: We have a Recipe for do-nothing Foreign Policy
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By Greg Sheridan, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars THIS is a terrible election result for Australian foreign policy. That is not a comment on either Tony Abbott or Julia Gillard, both of whom could possibly become a…
Green Foreign Policy: Feeling Queasy
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By Andrew Shearer, Director of Studies and Senior Research Fellow, Lowy Institute for International Policy As the horse-trading continues to see whether Labor or the Coalition can form a government, one thing about this election is clear: the Greens have emerged…
Australian Elections – Will Oz Lose its Clout in Foreign Policy?
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a deadlocked parliament means probable concessions to the Greens by whichever party can form a government and may result in questioning engagement in Afghanistan and reduce Australia’s clout in Asian regionalism in the short term.