Humanitarian Relief Operations & Security: A Role for Defence?
Since the Boxing Day Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, packages of images of devastation and chaos caused by natural events have… Read more >
Japan’s post Fukushima diplomacy
Over the years Japan has been an active player, and in some areas, a leader in global environmental and climate… Read more >
Climate Change Fact Sheet
1. The Earth is a dynamic geological entity driven by both internal processes and extraterrestrial processes – primarily the Sun… Read more >
Man-Made Climate Change: A Tale of Lies and Waste
Wednesday, the 23rd of March 2011 witnessed a political rally in Canberra, launched by the Liberal-National Coalition against the Gillard… Read more >
Environmental Security Issues
What is meant by these words? Firstly – climate. The simplest definition from the Shorter Oxford dictionary is “Condition (of… Read more >
To Know or Not to Know: Ukraine, Russia & the West
We in the West are not necessarily receiving an objective view of the current conflict. At what point do newspaper… Read more >
The Inadequacy of Counter-insurgency as ‘Strategy’
Having read ‘The End of the Age of Petraeus’ by Fred Kaplan in the January/February 2013 edition of Foreign Affairs,… Read more >
The Dragon and the Falcon: Chinese and Gulf Arab Neo-colonial Competition in 21st Century Africa
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neocolonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above… Read more >
The African Union at another crossroad
After a six-month long political and diplomatic impasse – i.e., not counting the time spent on official as well as… Read more >
Octroi de mer
Is it finally the moment of farewell for the ‘Octroi de mer’? The ‘Octroi de mer’, which sounds as if… Read more >